On December 23, 2020, the smelting shop in the village of Nikel carried out the last melting and was stopped forever. The workshop began to be built back in the 30s, when this territory belonged to Finland, and the village was then called Kolosjoki. At the end of World War II, when the territory was ceded to the Soviet Union, the destroyed plant was restored, and the village was named Nikel. It is located west of Murmansk, a few kilometers from the Norwegian border. In the 1980s, the plant emitted about 400 thousand tons of sulfur dioxide into the air per year, and in 1990 an environmental campaign was even launched in Norway to Stop the Soviet Death Clouds. The Norilsk Nickel company, which took over the mining and metallurgical plant in Nikel in the 1990s, initially agreed with Norway on the modernization of enterprises on the Kola Peninsula, but then abandoned the program. In the end, Norilsk Nickel, the largest supplier of non-ferrous metals to the world market, decided to close the smelter on the border with Norway, promising workers social guarantees, transfer to other company enterprises, retraining, pensions, and a small business development program for the village and, for example, industrial tourism.

29-year-old Sasha Malay (Alexander Rakovskikh) and Alexei Kvashonkin came to stand-up through KVN (they played for the team of the Higher School of Economics). In March, they went on a tour of central Russia and made jokes about the coronavirus along the way. They did not yet suspect how quickly the world around would change, and that the planned tour would have to be postponed or canceled.

Selling used parts for popular car brands was one of the most profitable businesses of the 2000s. And now such a dismantling is barely surviving, selling off the remnants. Two Russians work here, the general director, his deputy, and three Tajiks. The morning starts every day the same way, for Tajiks with a conversation with their wives and children on WhatsApp, and for Russians with a sore head. It hurts both from a hangover and from the difficult situation in the country.

The Velikoretsky Cross Procession is considered the most numerous and most difficult pilgrimage route in Russia. Many participants in the procession believe that if you walk this path with pure thoughts and a specific request to God, then it will be fulfilled. The main character of the film, Leonid, also has a request, a secret dream. And there is a feeling that this procession is the last for him.

Tasya, a 12-year-old girl from the village of Tomsino in the Pskov region, wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin asking him to help her mother, a nurse at a local hospital. The residents of the village, where Tasya and her mother moved shortly before, did not like this, they say, you need to "work, not beg." They started bullying Tasya, and her ex-girlfriend met her online under the guise of a young man and lured nude photos.

A girl from St. Petersburg walks around protest-ridden Moscow, talking to riot police and believing that sooner or later they will go over to the side of the demonstrators. An 18-year-old student of a St. Petersburg college introduces herself as Alice and tells about herself that from the age of four she lived in an orphanage and in foster families. In Moscow, Alisa, for whom this is the first rally in her life, walks along the police cordons and looks under the OMON helmet. "Under the mask you can't see, are you even human?"

Mikhail worked in the Zanarsky forestry, a hundred kilometers south of Moscow, but after the forestry was recognized as unprofitable and the reduction of almost the entire staff, he had to earn extra money as a taxi driver and breed poultry, like all the former foresters of the village.

How Lusya Stein, a graduate of VGIK and a municipal deputy of Moscow, went to work in the campaign headquarters of Ksenia Sobchak.

As in the Moscow Museum of Ultra-Modern Art immediately after the exhibition "SUPERPUTIN" they opened an exposition about North Korea and invited DPRK diplomats to it.

Two days before the inauguration of Vladimir Putin, a protest action took place in Moscow. The organizer of the action, Alexei Navalny, was detained, the Cossacks attacked the demonstrators, they were beaten by the police.

Fans from different countries make their way to the territory of Moscow State University to see how Russia beats Saudi Arabia 5-0.

A three-week search for two dogs, Yoda and Anubis, unexpectedly organized a large-scale volunteer movement around itself. First they managed to find Anubis, then Yoda. The story ended well, and the organizer of the search decided to devote himself entirely to the search for the missing animals.

Novaya Gazeta special correspondent Ilya Azar decided to participate in the municipal elections in Moscow. He took a vacation, registered as a candidate in his native district of Khamovniki and began to conduct the first election campaign in his life, go from house to house, communicate with voters, and won the election in September. This is a story about how a man decided to become a master in the place where he was born.

Ilya is 13 years old. It is his first time on a tourist vacation as part of the team of the Orthodox Center. The weather turned bad, the tourists hid in tents, and Ilya went in search of adventure and cigarettes.

Karaul is a small village in the very north of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, in the delta of the Yenisei River. There are no roads to Karaul, so you can only get there by air or water. The main occupation of the inhabitants is fishing, the main holiday is Fisherman's Day, and the main entertainment is dancing in a cafe.

The protagonist of the project "Reality" Andrei Kiselev filmed the great poem by Venedikt Erofeev "Moscow - Petushki".