Criminal 70s drama about the musicians involved in the theft and trafficking of stolen arts and antiques. Using their touring life as a cover, they evade police for years. Their suspected leader is a well-known celebrity singer. To catch the thieves, the police form an under-cover band led by a brave young officer, a former professional guitarist. By a lucky coincidence, the under-cover musicians become the supporting band for the main suspect, the singer. They need to find the evidence of his involvement in a life of crime, but money, fame, and other temptations get in the way. Will they stay loyal to the police or will they choose the seductive celebrity lifestyle built on breaking the law?
GRU intelligence lieutenant colonel Ilya Orlov, nicknamed "Monk", interrupted his military career after 15 years of service and... went to a monastery. However, he soon realized that non-resistance to evil was not for him and returned to worldly life, taking a job as a taxi driver.
The year is 1953. Due to the mass amnesty, the criminal situation in the USSR is tense. At the same time, Ivan Astafyev, a former commander of a reconnaissance platoon, who was released from prison, returns to his hometown of Gorky. And immediately becomes a victim of an attack by bandits, and then a false accusation of beating the attackers. Ivan's pre—war acquaintance, Captain Shvedov, helps out of trouble, who gets him a job at the Dynamo sports society to train policemen in hand-to-hand combat.
"У.Е." means "условная единица" in Russian or "CU" (conventional unit) in English. A conditional unit is a euphemism used in Russia to denote a monetary amount in a foreign currency (usually US dollars) or an equivalent amount of a dollar in rubles at an official or exchange rate.
The retired 50-year-old FSB colonel at his own risk and continues to investigate the case, because of which he was sent to retirement, and is drawn into a swirl of events related to the leakage of Russian capital abroad and the fight against international terrorism.
After faking his own death, notorious gangster Volkov (Wolf) retires overseas with a new identity. When his parents die in a car accident 20 years later, he secretly returns to his hometown and learns that the nephew of a local mobster is responsible for his parents’ death. After killing the man, a battle between the old-newcomer and local crime bosses unfolds.
An experienced virologist, Anya Markova, gives up her personal and professional life in Moscow and moves to work at a research center in Novosibirsk. She is clearly trying to escape from some personal pain, but in a new place fate throws the heroine another test - an outbreak of an unknown disease is recorded at the site of an illegal dump of a large meat processing plant in a remote village.
The main character of the story is veteran officer Mikhail Samylov who loses his friend Igor Makarov in Syria. Mikhail comes back to his port hometown Yantarsk to help Makarov’s widowed wife. He blames Igor’s death on himself. He doesn’t know, though, that Makarov is actually alive and turns out not who he seemed to be. A small port town becomes a battlefield of life and death. A chain of crimes always leads to one man — owner of the port Kupriyanov. Lost at what to do with his life, Mikhail, tormented by the pangs of guilt, will have to solve the crimes and find a new reason to keep on living.
Vladimir Kovalenko is one of those businessmen who "made themselves." He has everything you can only dream of: a well-established business, a beautiful lover, fame. But he does not know his real name and surname: he is a foundling, he received the nickname "Bourgeois" back in the orphanage - for knowing the value of money since childhood.
"Prosecutor's check" is a detective reality drama. The main characters - Pavel Ilyin and Dmitry Belonogov - first tried on the prosecutor’s uniform in the summer of 2008, speaking in the role of public prosecutors in the television project “Court of Jury”.