Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Ocheretnaya is a Russian linguist who served as the First Lady of Russia from 2000 to 2008 and from 2012 to 2014 while married to her then-husband, Vladimir Putin, the current president and former prime minister of Russia.
Gelendzhik is a resort town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, located on the Gelendzhik Bay of the Black Sea, between Novorossiysk and Tuapse. Greater Gelendzhik sprawls for 102 kilometers (63 mi) along the coastline and covers an area of 122,754 hectares, although only 1,926 hectares fall within the boundaries of Gelendzhik proper. Population: 80,204 (2021 Census); 54,980 (2010 Census); 50,012 (2002 Census); 47,711 (1989 Soviet census).
Mikhail Yegorovich Vaschenko-Zakharchenko was a Russian mathematician, member of Moscow Mathematical Society from 1866 and Privy Councillor of Russia from 1908. His major areas of research included the history of geometry in antiquity and Lobachevskian geometry.
The Ukrainian journal Osnova was published between 1861 and 1862 in Saint Petersburg. It contained articles devoted to life and customs of the Ukrainian people, including regular features about their wedding customs and traditions. Prominent figures were associated with the journal Osnova included Ukrainian intellectuals such as Volodymyr Antonovych and Tadei Rylsky, as well as poet Pavlo Chubynsky.
Russian intelligentsia expressed various reactions to the Russian annexation of Crimea.
Alexei Nikolayevich Didenko is a Russian politician. From 2007 to 2010, he was deputy of the Tomsk Oblast Duma. Since 2011, he has been a deputy in the State Duma of the Russian Federation. He is a member of the Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building. He is a leading member of the ultranationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia.
Abdulla Issa is a Palestinian poet, First Secretary of the Embassy of the State of Palestine, journalist, political analyst, film producer, winner of several literary awards, and recognized as a national Palestinian poet. He is known as one of the representatives of "the poetry of updates".
Russia of the Future, originally known as the People's Alliance and formerly called the Progress Party, is a banned opposition political party in Russia founded on 15 December 2012 by Leonid Volkov and later refounded on 19 May 2018 by Alexei Navalny, who was also the founder of the non-profit organisation Anti-Corruption Foundation.
Valery Dmitriyevich Solovei is a Russian historian, political scientist and conspiracy theorist, who served as the professor and head of the Public Relations Department at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO). He resigned from the MGIMO on June 19, 2019.
Mikhail Vladimirovich Svetov is a Russian politician and public figure, chairman of the civil society movement "Civil Society", political scientist, blogger, one of the main ideologists and popularizers of libertarianism in Russia, and the organizer of major rallies on various political and public topics. Svetov hosts his own YouTube channel and an online newspaper both entitled "SVTV".
Ilia Sergeyevich Novikov is a Russian and Ukrainian attorney (advocate). He defended famous political prisoners in Russia such as Nadiya Savchenko, Mykola Karpyuk, Oyub Titiev, Yegor Zhukov, and Frode Berg. In 2019, Novikov became a defence lawyer of the 5th President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
Aleksey Olegovich Chekunkov is a Belarusian-born Russian politician serving as the Minister of Development of the Far East and the Arctic since 10 November 2020.
Protests in Russia began on 23 January 2021 in support of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny after he was immediately detained upon returning to Russia after being sent to Germany for treatment following his poisoning the previous year. Days before protests began, a film by Navalny and his Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) called Putin's Palace, which revolves around the connection between president Vladimir Putin and a palace allegedly being built for him, was released.
Aleksey Leonidovich Teksler, is a Russian statesman and politician who is currently the 5th Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast since 20 September 2019. He is also the secretary of the Chelyabinsk regional branch of the United Russia party since 2 October 2020.
Tsoi is a 2020 Russian film directed by Alexei Uchitel, a joint production of Russia, Lithuania, and Latvia. The film tells the story of how a participant in car accident that killed Viktor Tsoi carries the Tsoi's coffin from Jūrmala to Leningrad. Tsoi himself appears only at the beginning of the film, where he immediately dies in a car accident. "There isn't even Tsoi in the Tsoi", said Komsomolskaya Pravda, while a review by Argumenty i Fakty was titled "Tsoi without Tsoi".
The Navalny Headquarters is a Russian organization founded by opposition leader Alexei Navalny as part of his presidential campaign. It formerly operated a network of regional organizations from 2017 to April 2021, when the liquidation of the headquarters was announced in connection with the demand of the Moscow prosecutor's office to recognize the public movement "Navalny Headquarters" as an extremist organization. It was re-established as an underground organization in October 2022.
Grandpa in his bunker, also translated as grandpa in a bunker, or bunker grandpa, is an insulting nickname for Russian president Vladimir Putin, which has become an Internet meme in Russia and Ukraine.
Nevsky–25 was a group of Russian underground culture artists (1987–1990). Association of artists and squatters’ workshop in the time of perestroika in the Soviet Union. Date of creation–March 13, 1987. The founder is Alexey Parygin. Location: Top floor of Kazan Cathedral House. Leningrad, Nevsky Prospect, 25 & Kazanskaya street, 1.
Aleksey Evgenievich Repik is a Russian businessman and public figure. He is the Chairman of the All-Russian public organization "Business Russia" since October 2019. President of Delovaya Rossiya (2014-2019).
The 2024 presidential campaign of Vladimir Putin was announced on 8 December 2023, during the ceremony of awarding state awards to the Russian military.
