On May 14, the human rights activist, the head of the Committee for Civil Rights, who had been defending people since the early 90s, passed away. Today in Moscow, at the House of Human Rights, a farewell ceremony was held for him. Even the ex-head of the Federal Penitentiary Service Alexander Kalashnikov said very warm words Photo: Nadezhda Guzheva But the Russian Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova “could not come.” The human rights activist was only 58 years old.

Photo: Global Look Press The Communist Party faction has submitted to the State Duma a bill to increase fines to 5 million rubles for the sale, acquisition, storage and processing of knowingly illegally harvested rare wood species. TASS writes about this. Currently, the maximum fine under this criminal article is 300 thousand rubles. If a crime is committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy - up to 500 thousand rubles.

Beer, wine and all kinds of vermouth have been rehabilitated at stadiums. Finally. Next in line, apparently, are vodka and other cognacs. Photo: Global Look Press But life is getting better. Not everywhere and not for everyone, but at least something.

Russia continues to get rid of those who largely shaped Russian culture in recent decades Photo: Global Look Press The scandal began when pranksters called the artistic director of the Vakhtangov Theater Rimas Tuminas, who was suffering from cancer, to Lithuania, where he was undergoing treatment. Posing as the Minister of Culture of Ukraine, they promoted the director to make political revelations.

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Tambourines and rituals are in fashion among people with money. To talk with the spirits of nature, you don’t need to go to Peru or Siberia; in big cities, shamanic practices are carried out at home. The Sobesednik correspondent took a closer look at the shamanic business The Oil Prince and the Amazon Toad Photo: pixabay The corpse of Alexander Subbotin, a former member of the board of LUKOIL Trading House LLC, was found in the basement of the shamans' cottage in Mytishchi.

What will the film forum be like in this very special year, says Anton Dolin Photo: Global Look Press What Cannes will be like in this dramatic year, why, apart from Serebrennikov, no one from Russia is expected there - not even directors, not even Sokurov - and why Ukraine “punished” Sergei Loznitsa, film critic Anton Dolin told Interlocutor. Serebrennikov and taboo – Anton, how is the Cannes Film Festival changing, given everything that is happening now in Ukraine and Russia?

At the end of May, the writer’s fourth novel under the intriguing title “Occulttraeger” will be published by Elena Shubina’s editorial office. Photo: Moscow Agency Alexey Salnikov at the premiere of Kirill Serebrennikov’s film “Petrovs in the Flu” based on his book His books each time became events in the literary world - “Petrovs in and around the flu”, “Department” and “Indirectly”.