Why did the former head of the FSB, Patrushev, accuse the former head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Shoigu, of the death of the Nord-Ost hostages? How people really died Photo: Boris Kavashkina / ITAR-TASS On June 15, Rossiyskaya Gazeta published an interview with the former director of the FSB and former secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev.

A quarter of a century has passed since the terrible tragedy that opened the era of Vladimir Putin’s reign. What meanings can we discern now when we look at it from afar? July 30, 2000. The crew of the Kursk submarine in Severomorsk during a military parade. Photo: archive The Kursk submarine sank on August 12, 2000, during exercises in the Barents Sea.

How wars affect the dynamics of violent disappearance and is it possible to return those who have long been considered dead. Interview with the UN expert Women during a mass protest in the center of Grozny. Relatives of the abducted and illegally detained citizens organized a rally dedicated to World Missing Day. Photo: Sergey Uzakov / ITAR-TASS August 30 - International Day of victims of violent disappearances.

What will not be told on federal TV? 25 years ago, divers opened the hatch and found that the entire crew died. But the main tragedy of Kursk is not an explosion of torpedoes, but a monstrous lie, inaction and betrayal, which made salvation impossible. A special correspondent of Novaya Gazeta Elena Milashina, a journalist who has been investigating the death of the Kursk submarine for 25 years, returns to the events of August 2000. Why is there still no truth?

On the Russian-Georgian border, in the village of Verkhny Lars, dozens of Ukrainian citizens have been holding in the basement for a week. Through Georgian volunteers, these people were able to contact the New Gazeta and the Committee “Civil Assistance” (recognized by the Ministry of Justice by a foreign agent). They said that the Russian migration authorities brought them to the border for deportation from Russia, but Georgia refused to let the Ukrainians into their territory.

Why did the inhabitants of Achha-Martan forced to look at the bloody corpse of a teenager-terrorist for several hours? On the evening of April 7, an 16-year-old native of Chechnya Eskerkhan Khumashev attacked, attacked with a knife on the traffic police officers standing on Akhmat Kadyrov Street in the center of the Chechen village of Achhai-Martan. An intimidation action in Achkhoy-Martan.

Elena Milashina - about the suspension of the investigation of the case of an attack on her in Grozny - The Chechen investigators have a rigid attitude: to prevent the victims - us - to the materials of the criminal case. Formally, this is legal. In fact - for years they delay the investigation. It is clear why: investigators do not want to investigate this matter, I called the consequence of specific surnames, the names of the famous people in Chechnya, who ... well, will not be prosecuted.

What is behind Ramzan Kadyrov’s attack on representatives of federal law enforcement agencies Kadyrov on his “straight line”. Source: telegram channel @kadyrov_95 This week, Ramzan Kadyrov held a direct line dedicated to the results of 2024, which in a sense became revolutionary for the Chechen authorities. It was this year that very serious indicators appeared indicating that the Chechen authorities were losing their influence.

Elena Milashina explains why the investigation is not really progressing

Why was evidence destroyed immediately after the assault on the school? We publish materials from the “Beslan case” - the most secret criminal case in modern Russia The destroyed and burnt-out southern wing of the Beslan school and employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. In the foreground is Sergei Shoigu. September 4, 2004.

On the 20th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in Russia, Novaya publishes materials from the criminal case, which the state has been hiding from victims and society for so many years Military personnel are on duty near the building of School No. 1, captured by militants. Photo: ITAR-TASS / Grigory Sysoev These documents, published for the first time, concern the most important issues surrounding the circumstances of the assault on school No.

As a consequence of Beslan, 20 years have been proving the state’s non-involvement in the tragedy and why every sheet in this criminal case will become evidence of its guilt September 3, 2004. During the storming of the school. Photo: AP / TASS Today is 20 years since the storming of the Beslan school, during which 333 hostages died.

Elena Milashina in the podcast "Consultation Room" - about the investigation of the terrorist attack and the reaction to Putin's visit In the new episode of the podcast "Consultation Room", hosts Vera Chelishcheva and Zoya Svetova talk to Elena Milashina, a columnist for Novaya Gazeta. Elena has been thoroughly, bit by bit, investigating the true reasons for the deaths of most of the hostages in the Beslan school from the very beginning.

On the birthday of Anna Politkovskaya, we are talking about her great deed, which can not complete Anna Politkovskaya in Chechnya. Photo: Archive In the early 2000s, the Novaya Gazeta appeared in Novaya Gazeta. She was led by Anna Politkovskaya. In each new issue of this, perhaps the most regular in the history of Novaya Gazeta, Anna Stepanovna published the stories of residents of Chechnya, who forcibly disappeared during the sweeps carried out by federal security forces.

For the first time in 20 years, Vladimir Putin crossed the threshold of the Beslan school. What is new to his mothers? Vladimir Putin on the territory of the sports hall of school No. 1, where in 2004, as a result of capture by terrorists in hostages, more than 1.2 thousand people were hostage. Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofiev / Press Service of the President of the Russian Federation / TASS On the way from Baku to Grozny, Vladimir Putin visited Beslan for his rule for his rule.