Fair of ideologies. Economists are fighting for the mind and heart of Vladimir Putin Today, like four years ago, the Russian government is in search of a socio-economic program for the development of the country. Various expert and professional communities are ready to provide Vladimir Putin (or his successor) with options for solving the accumulated problems. History repeats itself.

Yuri Kostanov, lawyer, former employee of the USSR Prosecutor General’s Office , on the proposal of the Prosecutor General’s Office to transfer two-thirds of criminal cases from the Investigative Committee to the bodies of inquiry (police, customs, drug control ) . It was impossible to allow what was done in the summer, when all rights were transferred to the Investigative Committee.

A short course of hollyuzh from the masters of culture “Who are you with, masters of culture?” is a question that needs an answer. Especially if we compare the current statements of the rulers of thoughts with those that they uttered in 1996, when under the slogan “Yeltsin is our president”, many of them participated in the project “Vote or lose!” Nikita Mikhalkov in the mid-nineties was a confidant of Boris Yeltsin.

Money according to Sharia law. The management company BCS has registered the first Halal mutual investment fund in Russia, which will invest the money of its shareholders in accordance with Sharia law. The news is not that the company undertakes to observe the Koran - banks are appearing all over the world that provide financial services to Muslims in accordance with the traditions of Islam.

"I am a workhorse." Eldar Ryazanov is 80 years old. The correspondent of The New Times met with the hero of the day Eldar Ryazanov - Oleg Dusaev I think being eternal is bad. A lot of things start to get boring. More and more over the years. Everything is already clear, all the rituals are clear. If you live forever, then you need to at least bargain - in what form you will live, at what age. But even if you live forever young, you will be interested only at first.

Battle for savings. In the ways that you can try to defeat inflation, versed The New Times The question of what to do with your savings is by no means idle. In conditions when inflation goes off scale for 10% per annum, and banks offer 7-8% at best, sometimes it’s easier to take a preferential loan under 9% per annum and make a large purchase, which has long been dreamed of, what to try to save it.

15 years ago, on November 11, 1992, the Russian national basketball team played its first ever match. And on November 20, 1991, another team, the USSR, ended its existence. But the most interesting thing is that it happened within the same competition!

Court revokes license from opposition TV channel The Georgian authorities have lifted the state of emergency. On November 22, President Saakashvili is due to resign, and the struggle for the presidency will begin in Georgia. Elections are scheduled for January 5th. However, the opposition channel Imedi remains silent. By decision of the Tbilisi court, the company's license was taken away.

Pakistan: violence in the name of power and property. General Pervez Musharraf officially took over as president of the country. Now he must step down as commander of the army and hold fair parliamentary elections.

Exhibition "History Lessons of the 20th Century in Caricatures" “On the night my brother was arrested, I did not yet know that we were saying goodbye forever...” An exhibition of Boris Yefimov’s works “Lessons from the history of the 20th century in caricatures” was opened in the New Manezh, where 250 works of the artist are presented. Boris Efimov, who recently turned 107, appeared at the exhibition in full dress and signed dozens of books.

Creativity outsiders BumArt. The Museum of outsiders opened an exhibition of paintings by homeless people "Artist without a reason" Outsider art is a phrase that should not be taken literally. "Outsider art" is a term that refers to the work of non-professional artists, most importantly - not aware of themselves as such, driven solely by the need to create.

Do you know who the activists of the spontaneously organized, voluntary-coercive movement “For Putin” remind me of, they are “zaputintsy”? Ibantsev, the characters of the immortal, albeit slightly (and undeservedly) forgotten novel by Alexander Zinoviev "Yawning Heights". Look - it reads like a fresh loyal newspaper, like the program of one, but all-encompassing party. “Here is the Newspaper,” says the Neurasthenic. Read. The head received the Ambassador. The manager arrived in Paris.

NET festival starts in Moscow on November 20 - New European Theater Joel Pomerat: "In Russia, I'm ready to tell the truth." On November 20, the NET festival starts in Moscow - the New European Theater. The main guest of the festival, Frenchman Joel Pomerat, a director who is called the "creator of a new theatrical language", told The New Times about his understanding of the theater People often ask me: why did I start doing theater?

Putin began to love exactly at twelve Tver is a door for Putin. Bright posters hang on the walls of the Tver Drama Theater. One of them invites you to the performance "From a fairy tale to a fairy tale." A little further - an invitation to the November premiere of "Nuts". In fact, on November 15 in Tver, an action was unfolding worse than "Crazy" and all the fairy tales of the world - and such a full house has never been seen on this stage.

Yes Yes Yes Yes! There are exactly two weeks left before the plebiscite on confidence in Vladimir Putin. The State Duma of the fourth convocation held its last meeting. “Marches of Consonants” swept through the regions demanding that Putin not leave, not abandon the people in difficult times. Cultural figures also join the "ordinary working people" (p. 15). The final chord of this production of the theater of the absurd is the founding congress of the For Putin movement (p.