In order to put an end to dissent at once, the Soviet secret services organized this show trial. Viktor Krasin and Petr Yakir were convicted of participating in subversive propaganda against the USSR. The liberal opposition was temporarily demoralized. It was forty years ago, but it seems that it will be tomorrow.
A year has passed since the presidential elections in Belarus, when the current government harshly suppressed protests against falsified results. Thousands of people are still in prisons, tens of thousands were forced to go abroad. Among the new emigrants there are politicians, they are even called the government in exile. And there are ordinary citizens who could not even imagine that they would ever have to leave their homeland. The film tells how this Belarus lives, a huge community of migrants that has emerged over the past year. The stories of the heroes add up to a chronicle of what is happening in their country after the elections on August 9, 2020.
The journey of Russian mothers from St. Petersburg to the city of victorious gay propaganda.
The film tells about the former journalist of the Kommersant and Vedomosti newspapers, adviser to the Roscosmos state corporation Ivan Safronov. On July 7, 2020, Safronov was arrested, charged with high treason and placed in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center. So far, several months after Ivan's arrest, neither he, nor the defense, nor the public have been presented with a single piece of evidence of the journalist's guilt.
The staff of the Vera Hospice Foundation has been fighting for many years to alleviate the suffering of terminally ill people, both adults and children. Much has been achieved along the way, but much more needs to be done. How to make it so that not only to live, but also to die was not excruciatingly painful?
We are all dependent on something. Addiction to communication and loneliness, sex and abstinence, food and sports, drugs and religion. But sometimes we are afraid to admit to ourselves and others in our phobias, fears and complexes. It is necessary to confess, because this is the only way to get rid of addiction. This strange year bared our fears, made us more vulnerable, we had a lot of time for ourselves, we became more honest. Let's try to talk about why and what we depend on. And how can we help each other become stronger and cope with everything. Addiction is not licentiousness, not permissiveness, but a disease of loneliness, which is almost impossible to overcome alone with yourself.
Galina Starovoitova entered politics two years before the collapse of the USSR, at the time of radical changes in the country; and all her activities over the course of ten years, until the moment of the murder, was both a hit on time and a fantastic advance. She was a real politician of the 90s, built a young Russian democracy, looked to the future with hope, soberly and bitterly assessing the present. But she can also be safely called a politician of the XXI century: Galina Starovoitova spoke about the most important current problems of our society, ahead of her time by several decades.
"If the end is the salvation of the soul, then the end justifies the means." Following the will of his spiritual father, in Soviet times he swore allegiance to the atheists, in the 90s he welcomed money changers in the church, and in the 2000s he turned the church into an ideological department serving the authorities, and all in order to achieve the main goal - the creation of a Russian Vatican, powerful and independent of Caesar's corporation. Like Vladimir Putin, he came as a Westerner and a modernist, and will leave as a guardian and reactionary. A film about the life and ministry of the sixteenth Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Kirill.
The film portrays a new generation of politically active Russians who worked and volunteered for Navalny's 2018 presidential campaign.
