In Petrozavodsk on the evening of January 28, a picket was held in support of the head of the Karelian branch of the Memorial, Yuri Dmitriev, arrested on charges of pedophilia. The action was dedicated to the birthday of the famous researcher of Stalinist repressions. "Юрию Алексеевичу сегодня исполнилось 63 года, – рассказал Радио Свобода организатор пикета, гражданский активист Андрей Литвин. – Он не имеет возможности встречать этот день в кругу семьи, друзей.

Grain warehouse at the Moscow Farm "Moskovsky" near Stavropol In a number of Russian regions, a protest of grain carriers is held, which require an increase in transportation tariffs. Since mid -January, the transportation of grain has temporarily stopped drivers of several hundred cars from the Rostov region, the Krasnodar and Stavropol Territory. It is reported that protests are ready to support grain carriers from the Volgograd, Voronezh, Saratov and Tambov regions.

In Petrozavodsk on the evening of January 28, a picket was held in support of the head of the Karelian branch of the Memorial, Yuri Dmitriev, arrested on charges of pedophilia. The action was dedicated to the birthday of the famous researcher of Stalinist repressions. "Юрию Алексеевичу сегодня исполнилось 63 года, – рассказал Радио Свобода организатор пикета, гражданский активист Андрей Литвин. – Он не имеет возможности встречать этот день в кругу семьи, друзей.

This Sunday was 75 years since the departure of the blockade of Leningrad. 75 years ago, on January 27, 1944, as a result of the advance of the Soviet troops, the lasting 872 days of the blockade of Leningrad was removed. All this time, the city surrounded by invaders lived, worked and fought. Despite the shelling, Bombing and Hunger Leningrad survived and won.

A survey of passers -by on the streets of Moscow

Three Ukrainian military personnel who were injured in the capture of Ukrainian ships by Russian border guards in the Black Sea at the end of November 2018 were transferred from the medical unit of the Moscow Sailor Silence to the investigative insulator of Lefortov, which contain the rest of the arrested Ukrainian sailors. This was announced with reference to the investigator by lawyer Nikolai Polozov .

1919–2019 - century later Alexander Genis: On the air, the new episode of our cultural and historical cycle “1919-A century later” with Solomon. (Music) Alexander Genis: The whole world last year, the whole world celebrated the centenary of the end of the First World War. And our heading constantly visited the fronts of this war, the people who fought, newspapers who wrote about it. The war ended in 1918, but its consequences are felt until today.

The most interesting of our common past. Incomplete story. Unjust wounds. Still live hopes. Could Russia go the other way? Radio Liberty this week 20 years ago. Archive project. Ivan Tolstoy chooses from our ether still relevant and turned out to be eternal.

Alexander Manotskov 12 songs on the verses of Ukrainian poets from Taras Shevchenko to Sergey Zhadan . Psalms as reggae and Polish baroque. Dancing: The life of a medical student in St. Petersburg, the Tatar melody of Lesia Ukrainka , the anthem of the sadness of Bogdan-Igorye Antonich . Two songs by Vasily Stus . Two Kyiv Alexander Manotskov, a modern composer, cosmopolitan and a patriot of the two countries.

Becket on the rehearsal "Waiting for Godo" Conversation with Vladimir Gandelsman Alexander Genis: 70 years ago, in January 1949, a play was written, which was revolutionary in the theater. In terms of influence, it can only be compared with the coup in the literature that caused the publication of the novel by another Irish, James Joyce Ulysses. Of course, I am talking about the play by Samuel Beckete “Waiting for Godo”.

Good morning! The US Department of Finance has lifted sanctions from Deripaska companies now heal. The rest is like this: In St. Petersburg, a military parade on Palace was held on the anniversary of the departure of the blockade. Germany allocated 12 million euros to the aid of blockade. The United States threaten “serious measures” in the event of a threat to Juan Guydo, who proclaimed himself President of Venezuela on January 23.

Leader of the Venezuelan opposition Juan Guydo The politician Juan Guydo, who declared himself President Venezuela, said that his supporters are negotiating with representatives of the Venezuelan army. They still support the current President Nicolas Maduro, whose legitimacy is not recognized by the opposition and many countries of the world. This was about this to the newspaper Washington Post.

Alexey Navalny The head of the Corruption Foundation, Alexei Navalny, filed a lawsuit against the Russian Law Chamber with a request to oblige her to punish lawyer Lidia Malikov. She was appointed by the court to defend his interests when considering the PHSIN for the extension of the trial period in the Kirovles case in June 2018, said RAPSI. Navalny asks the chamber to initiate disciplinary proceedings against a lawyer for continuing to represent his interests after he refused her services.

The medal, which, according to the media, was posthumously awarded one of the Russian mercenaries in Syria The Security Service of Ukraine published data from more than a hundred Russian citizens, including the numbers of internal and foreign passports of several of them. According to the department, all these persons are employees of the “private military company Wagner” and visited the countries of the African region.

US President Donald Trump is far from sure that Republicans and Democrats in Congress will be able to come to an agreement on the construction of a wall on the Mexican border and thus avoid a repetition of the situation with the termination of financing of part of state institutions - the so -called Shatdown. The team of negotiators in the composition of 17 legislators has the time until February 15 to achieve an agreement, since on this day short -term agreements on the budget expire.