Photo: spastower.ru The reasons that orchestras from Western countries or overseas, traditionally participating in the Spasskaya Tower festival, will not come are clear. But it won’t do without exotica. The Egyptian military symphony orchestra in headdresses - nemes, the bright Indian group "Panghat" with obligatory songs and dances, and the marching band of the Boonwattana school from Thailand will be responsible for it. There will also be delegations from Armenia and Belarus.

“Interlocutor” asked a local resident about how life is in the city chosen for one of the residences of the Russian president Photo: Wikipedia One of the residences of Russian President Vladimir Putin is located in Valdai, in the Novgorod region. The choice is clear - the places there are very beautiful. But how do the townspeople themselves live? Does the presence of the country's first person nearby affect them? “Interlocutor” talked to one of the residents about this.

Two photographs in which Vasily Shukshin was taken with his friend’s family are an occasion to talk about what role artists play in our lives and why we need to protect them Photo: Kinopoisk In the story “Klyauza,” Vasily Shukshin described an incident that happened to him when he was in the hospital. The woman watchman did not allow his wife and daughters in first, and in the evening even his friends, reveling in her power.

Photo: freeze frame / E1.RU The court did not deprive Yevgeny Roizman of freedom of movement, limiting himself to a ban on visiting public places and communicating with witnesses, with the exception of people with whom he lives. The politician is also prohibited from sending mail, except for mail to investigators, as well as using the telephone and the Internet. This decision was made by the judge of the Yekaterinburg court Oksana Mamontova.

Photo: lawyer Sergei Babinets Igor Kalyapin after the attack HRC member Igor Kalyapin on the evening of August 24 became a victim of a domestic conflict. Now both the police and the human rights activist himself are reporting in the media that the injuries received are not related to the professional activities of the human rights activist.

Everything came together: summer, a river and a good mood. Photo: Elena Milchanovska We promised you photos from our special correspondent’s trip to the Nudist Beach, the vicissitudes of which are described here . Charge yourself with the energy of beauty, youth, talent, openness to the world and, of course, a great mood for these last summer days. Caution: It may get even hotter!

The political scientist suggested why the case of the ex-mayor of Yekaterinburg was not sent to Moscow Photo: still frames 66.ru, “Tell Gordeeva” Ekaterina Shulman, Evgeniy Roizman Ekaterina Shulman* tried to explain why the case of the former mayor of Yekaterinburg Evgeny Roizman was never sent to Yekaterinburg.

This trial of the “last of the Mohicans” could backfire on the current governor of Yekaterinburg, the capital’s human rights activist believes Photo: telegram channel E1.RU “Roizman is one of the last Mohicans among politicians who were clearly associated as oppositional and, in general, sooner or later this probably had to happen,” human rights activist Alexander Khurudzhi commented to Sobesednik on the detention of the ex-mayor of Yekaterinburg.

Photo: Global Look Press Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on expanding the staff of the Russian army from 202 3. The headcount will increase to 2.03 million people. Of these, 1.15 million are military personnel. The decree will come into force on January 1, 2023, and the Ministry of Defense will allocate funds from the federal budget for its implementation.

Lev Gershenzon did not expect that the service would be allowed to work for three days Photo: aggregator logo Roskomnadzor blocked the news aggregator The True Story, launched last Monday by the former head of the Yandex.News service Lev Gershenzon. “Our beta is scheduled to enter the next stage - now in the Russian Federation we can only be read from a VPN.

If Russia starts a political scandal over the unification of the coastal defenses of Estonia and Finland, then this is absolutely futile Photo: pixabay Recently, Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur said that Estonia and Finland have agreed to combine their coastal defenses after Finland becomes a NATO member. And consequently, the Baltic will become “NATO’s internal sea.” Finland's entry into NATO and the formation of an “inland sea” is rather a philosophical question.

Rapper Basta continues to be one of the most successful concert artists in Russia Photo: Global Look Press Even if we don’t make allowances for the fact that a significant part of rap and rock musicians are now deprived of the opportunity to give concerts in the country (and Basta, meanwhile, managed to successfully tour Ukraine, staging sold-out shows in Kyiv and Kharkov last winter, and all this after receiving a temporary ban on entry into Ukraine several years ago).

Photo: mbronnaya.ru The Theater on Malaya Bronnaya completes its tour in St. Petersburg with a production by Konstantin Bogomolov starring Alexandra Rebenok, Igor Mirkurbanov and Vasilisa Perelygina. The play is one of the main provocative productions of the season, as is everything that Ksenia Sobchak’s husband undertakes. The literary basis of the classic plot is reinterpreted by the director in the realities of the modern metropolitan metropolis.

Photo: still frame “Tell Gordeeva” Yuri Shevchuk The leader of the DDT group, Yuri Shevchuk, together with lawyer Alexander Peredruk, appealed the court decision on a fine for discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Human rights activist Pavel Chikov reports this. Let us remind you that Yuri Shevchuk was fined 50 thousand rubles under the mentioned article. The decision was made by the Soviet Court of Ufa.