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Dmitry Pevtsov
Dmitry Anatolyevich Pevtsov (russian: Дмитрий Анатольевич Певцов) (born July 8, 1963) is a Russian actor, Member of the State Duma from Medvedkovo constituency of Moscow from 2021, member on New People political party. Biography Pevtsov was born in Moscow. He has Russian Jewish ancestry and his grandfather was executed by the NKVD in 1938. Political Views On September 17–19, 2021, under the motto "not only a national actor, but also a national candidate", he was elected as an independent deputy to the State Duma, Russia's federal legislative assembly. Later became a member of the New People fraction of the party. In October 2021, Pevtsov was confirmed as first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Cultural Affairs. Pevtsov identified the support of the institution of the family, the opening of a new version of the law on culture, the distribution of a network of youth cultural schools and development centers, and lowering the retirement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Duma
The State Duma (russian: Госуда́рственная ду́ма, r=Gosudárstvennaja dúma), commonly abbreviated in Russian as Gosduma ( rus, Госду́ма), is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia, while the upper house is the Federation Council. The Duma headquarters are located in central Moscow, a few steps from Manege Square. Its members are referred to as deputies. The State Duma replaced the Supreme Soviet as a result of the new constitution introduced by Boris Yeltsin in the aftermath of the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, and approved in a nationwide referendum. In the 2007 and 2011 Russian legislative elections a full party-list proportional representation with 7% electoral threshold system was used, but this was subsequently repealed. The legislature's term length was initially 2 years in the 1993–1995 elections period, and 4 years in 1999–2007 elections period; since the 2011 elections the term length is 5 years. History Ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Moscow Rally
"For a world without Nazism" (russian: «Zа мир без нацизма») was a political rally and concert at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow on 18March 2022, which marked the eighth anniversary of the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. President Vladimir Putin spoke at the event, justifying the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian invasion of Ukraine and praising Russian troops, to a crowd of 200,000 people, per Moscow City Police. Outlets including the BBC and the ''Moscow Times'' reported that state employees were transported to the venue, and other attendees were paid or forced to attend. Event The arena and stage featured slogans reading "For a world without Nazism", "For our president", and "For Russia", but Z (military symbol), featuring the Latin ''Z'' character in place of Ze (Cyrillic), the usual Cyrillic ''З''. Some signs also featured Ribbon of Saint George, Saint George's ribbon-styled Z's with the hashtag #СвоихНеБросаем, meaning " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The First Circle (miniseries)
''The First Circle'' (russian: link=no, В круге первом, ) is a 2006 Russian miniseries directed by Gleb Panfilov, with ten 44-minute episodes. It is based on '' The First Circle'', the novel written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn based on his experiences in Joseph Stalin's Gulag. The series was first broadcast in the Russia on Telekanal Rossiya on January 29, 2006. Plot Based on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's autobiographical novel and set during the fearful times of Stalin's mass arrests, the series takes place in a sharashka, a prison-laboratory for secret research where Russia's greatest minds are put to government use. While living conditions in this "first circle of hell" are incomparably superior to the Gulag camps, the scientists there face the moral dilemma of cooperating with an inhuman system. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fall Of The Empire
''The Fall of the Empire'' (russian: Гибель империи, Gibel' imperii) is a Russian TV miniseries in ten episodes directed by Vladimir Khotinenko, broadcast in March 2005. It is set in World War I, following Russian counterintelligence officer Sergei Pavlovich Kostin (Aleksandr Baluev), a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, who works to uncover enemy plots aided by his sidekick Ivan Karlovich Shtol'ts (Marat Basharov). Cast Main characters of the series * Alexander Baluev - Captain of counterintelligence Sergei Pavlovich Kostin * Sergei Makovetsky - Professor of Law, and then the captain of the Army Intelligence Alexander Mikhailovich Nesterovsky * Maria Mironova - Elena Ivanovna Saburova * Chulpan Khamatova - Olga Semenovna Nesterovskaya * Marat Basharov - lieutenant counterintelligence Ivan Karlovich Stolz * Andrey Krasko - non-commissioned counterintelligence officer Nikolai Alexeyevich Strelnikov '' The real historical figures in the series * Vladislav G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bandit Petersburg
''Bandit Petersburg'' (or ''Gangster Petersburg'', russian: Бандитский Петербург) is a Russian detective television series. It was one of the most successful Russian series of the early 2000s. The series is loosely based on the eight works of . The first two parts premiered in May 2000 on the NTV channel. In total, ten seasons were produced, the last of which was broadcast in 2007. The only character who appears in 9 seasons (except the film ''The Operative''), is Lieutenant Colonel Kudasov by Yevgeny Sidikhin. Music The series' theme song is ''The City that isn't there'', by singer and composer Igor Kornelyuk, and lyricist . Part I of the series also features ''You're a Stranger To Me'' by Tatiana Bulanova as a secondary theme. Anachronism Although the events of the series are portrayed as taking place in the late 1980s to early 1990s, anachronistic objects such as car models, mobile phones, personal computers, signage and media appear in the ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Election Day (2007 Film)
Election Day (russian: День выборов, Den vyborov) is a 2007 Russian comedy film directed by Oleg Fomin. Synopsis The staff of a successful Moscow radio station are sent into the Volga region to assist in the promotion of a candidate for the local governor elections. They are assisted by the local theatre director, a fake priest, and their boss' connections. Cast * Kvartet I: ** Kamil Larin as Kamil ** as Slava ** Aleksandr Demidov as Sasha ** Leonid Barats as Alex * Yevgeny Steblov as Director * Mikhail Yefremov as Father Innokenty * Nonna Grishayeva as Nonna * Vasily Utkin as Igor Vladimirovich Tsaplin, candidate for Governor * Andrey Makarevich as cameo * Sergey Shnurov as cameo * Marianna Maksimovskaya as cameo * Bi-2 as cameo * Uma2rman as cameo * Valery Barinov as Ivan Burdun * Alexander Gurevich as candidate Alinkin * Georgy Martirosyan as singer Reception Box office ''Election Day'' has grossed US$6 149 746. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artistka
''Actress'' (russian: Артистка, Artistka) is a 2007 Russian comedy film directed by Stanislav Govorukhin. Plot The story revolves around Anna who is a young divorced women. She is a theater actress, who's unsatisfied with the minor roles offered to her. Loneliness surrounds her life. One day Anna meets an interesting man with who she falls in love. She is soon forced to choose between her career and love, when she's offered a lead role. Cast *Yevgenia Dobrovolskaya as Аnnа * Yuri Stepanov as Vikenty *Mariya Aronova as neighbor * Dmitry Pevtsov as neighbor * Alexander Abdulov as Bosyakin *Fyodor Bondarchuk as film director * Mikhail Yefremov as Gusyatnikov * Svetlana Nemolyaeva as theater actress * Irina Skobtseva as Varvara Fominichna, Vikenty's mother * Kira Golovko ) , birth_date = , birth_place = Yessentuki, Russian SFSR , death_date = , death_place = Moscow, Russia , restingplace = , restingp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Turkish Gambit (film)
''The Turkish Gambit'' is a 2005 Russian historical spy film, an adaptation of Boris Akunin's novel ''The Turkish Gambit'' featuring his most famous character, the detective Erast Fandorin. It was directed by Dzhanik Fayziev and written by Akunin himself. The film starred Marat Basharov, Yegor Beroyev, and Olga Krasko. ''The Turkish Gambit'' was a box office success, although it received mixed reviews from critics. Plot The film takes place in Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). Erast Fandorin is put on the trail of a Turkish agent who is trying to disrupt the Russian advance during the Siege of Plevna. The agent, known as Anwar Efendi, is a master of disguise and has excellent command of Russian. Change from the book Unlike the ending of the book, where French correspondent d'Hervais is exposed as being Anwar in disguise, in the film Anwar turns out to have been posing as a seemingly awkward and stupid Russian captain. In the book, unlike the film, Fandori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead Man's Bluff
''Dead Man's Bluff'' or ''Zhmurki'' (russian: Жмурки) is a 2005 Russian black comedy/crime film. Director Aleksei Balabanov, who directed ''Brother'' and ''Brother 2'', uses cameo performances, by Russia's most prominent actors. The film depicts the anarchistic reality of the free-market streets of Russia in the beginning of 1990s, where the only real liberty was the freedom to kill. Plot The film opens with a professor lecturing a group of university students on the primitive accumulation of capital. The professor says: "Start-up capital is how everything begins - it makes it possible to start a business and multiply the initial investment many times over. The key question is how to get start-up capital..." By way of example, she begins to tell a story that supposedly took place a decade earlier during the socio-economic tumult in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union. The movie flashes to Nizhniy Novgorod in the mid-1990s, to an interrogation scene that takes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Nickname Is Beast
, image = His Nickname Is Beast Russian poster.jpg , caption = Russian poster , director = Aleksandr Muratov , producer = , writer = Viktor Dotsenko , starring = , music = Boris Rychkov , cinematography = Elizbar Karavayev , editing = , released = 1990 , studio= Mosfilm , runtime = 88 minutes , country = Soviet Union , language = Russian , budget = ''His Nickname Is Beast'' (russian: …По прозвищу «Зверь») is a 1990 Soviet action film directed by Aleksandr Muratov. Plot Military Special Forces trooper Savely Govorkov, nicknamed "The Beast" ( Dmitry Pevtsov), returns to Russia from Afghanistan war. The country is now in the middle of Perestroika and is mainly ruled by crime mobs. One of those, Alik (Boris Shcherbakov), is requested by his seemingly girlfriend Larissa to employ Govorkov as her bodyguard due to his honest personality and similarity to her brother, who died in Afghanistan. Unwilling to live a corrupted lifestyle, Savely init ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Witches Cave
''The Witches Cave'' (russian: Подземелье ведьм) is a 1989 science fantasy film from Gorky Film Studio, USSR and Barrandov Studios, Czechoslovakia. The script was written by Kir Bulychov based upon his own story and directed by Yuri Moroz. The cast featured Sergei Zhigunov as Andrei Bruce, Marina Levtova as Belogurochka, Dmitry Pevtsov as Oktin Khash and Nikolai Karachentsov as cosmolinguist Jean. The movie had two nominations in 1991 Nika Awards. Plot summary An interstellar expedition is sent to study a strange planet far from Earth. Despite the fact that creatures from various Earth time periods appear to inhabit the world (mammoths, pterodactyls, dinosaurs, horses, birds, etc.), the stone-age-level natives also possess swords made of metal. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mother (1990 Film)
''Mother'' (russian: Мать, links=no, translit. Mat, also known as ''Zapreshchyonnye lyudi'') is a 1990 Soviet drama film based on Maxim Gorky's novels '' The Mother'' (1906) and ''The Life of a Useless Man'' (1908) and short story "Karamora" (1923), directed by Gleb Panfilov and co-produced with Italy. It was entered into the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Inna Churikova * Viktor Rakov * Liubomiras Lauciavicius * Alexey Buldakov * Aleksandr Shishonok * Dmitry Pevtsov * Aleksandr Karin * Ivan Kabardin * Vladimir Prozorov * Vladimir Fateyev * Olga Shukshina * Antonella Interlenghi * Andrei Rostotsky * Vyacheslav Bogachyov * Innokenty Smoktunovsky * Andrey Myagkov * Mario Adorf Mario Adorf (; born 8 September 1930) is a German actor, considered to be one of the great veteran character actors of European cinema. Since 1954, he has played both leading and supporting roles in over 200 film and television productions, am ... References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
