The financial crisis may put the authorities before a choice, the menu of which is an increase in budget spending to support the national economy or a tightening of liberal financial policies, says Anatoly Chubais in an interview with The New Times Anatoly Chubais — The New Times Do you have any doubts that the financial crisis is on the threshold? You can argue for a long time: recession? slowdown? - it doesn't really matter. Obviously - a serious slowdown in global GDP growth.

Should Lenfilm be privatized? Cinema - in the studio! Lenfilm is saved,” the filmmakers breathed a sigh of relief when the danger of privatization of the famous studio was over. However, the cancellation of the auction does not yet mean a solution to the problem. What is going on around domestic film studios and do they need privatization at all? Precisely on the eve of the start of the presidential election campaign, the St.

Any road is dear to us. How has Putin's eight-year rule been reflected in various areas of the Russian economy, politics and social life? This question is answered by the independent expert report “Putin. Results”, prepared by Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov. The book is published by the Novaya Gazeta publishing house. With the consent of the authors, The New Times publishes a chapter on one of Russia's biggest troubles - roads. Bad roads are an eternal Russian history.

## “Katya is strong” instead of “tears of the Komsomol member”. Vodka in Russian literature and life The protagonist of one of Robert Penn Warren's novels measured time with cigarettes (“It was so many packs of cigarettes back ...”). The terrorist Bogrov, who killed the royal prime minister Stolypin, was a much more serious and emotionally loaded scale. Bogrov on the proposal to write a petition for pardon in the highest name allegedly answered: “And what is my life?

“Thanks to me, people did not go to the panel” “Thanks to me, people didn’t go to the panel.” The case of the former "atomic minister" Yevgeny Adamov has been formally dragging on since 2005, when on May 2, Yevgeny Adamov was detained in Bern at the request of the US State Department and the US Department of Justice. The main charge is embezzlement of $ 9 million allocated under the nuclear power plant safety program.

The nightmare of Russian politicians is beginning to take shape. As a result of "Super Tuesday" Senator John McCain, in fact, guaranteed himself a Republican presidential nomination. At the same time, in the final pairs with Clinton or Obama, the inflexible veteran has good chances. There are too many annoying traits in both Democratic contenders, and the Arizona senator is able to act as a kind of unifier. Is it time to prepare for a new cold war?

With whom will Russia negotiate? New presidents, new politics. The change of heads of state in Russia and the United States, with all the possible difficulties, is a window of opportunity Boris Makarenko, Chairman of the Board of the Center for Political Technologies First of all, about the limits of the possible. It is hardly worth expecting revolutionary changes in Russian-American relations in 2009. The honeymoon period is over.

Reporting on how the election campaign is being done Democratic Series. The struggle between Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has turned into an exciting multi-part thriller that everyone watches, regardless of party affiliations. And the Republicans, who are fighting among themselves boring, like the heroes of the "Battle for the Harvest", a conservative, a super-conservative and a super-duper-conservative.

Potential partner. The Russians began to treat the United States badly after the bombing of Serbia. Putin's Munich speech added firewood to the smoldering fire of hostility The position of the United States in the list of enemies of Russia has always been special. If the figures are to be believed, the Russians have a very contradictory attitude towards their transatlantic partner.

Shouting Yahoo! Bill Gates is fighting for the online advertising market. What made him think about the biggest deal in the global Internet market? It would seem, who can envy the richest man in the world? It turns out, the youngest billionaire. True, in both cases, “former” must be added to high-profile titles.

Interview with the country's chief nanotechnologist Leonid Melamed There is such a word - "Nano!" Russia has joined the next world race called "The future belongs to nanotechnologies". The announced prize is technological dominance in the 21st century. In order to keep up with the leaders of the competition - the USA, Japan and Germany, in July 2007, the state corporation Rosnanotech was created in Russia.

"Cut" Kievan Rus. Yulia Timoshenko's upcoming visit to Russia forces political scientists to make predictions about the future of Russian-Ukrainian relations. It will obviously not be cloudless. Why are the two largest countries in Europe developing in opposite directions? Translation from English by Elena Sivuda The Ukrainian split into two regional and political cultures has recently been compared by Ukrainian sociologist Ivan Kachanovsky to the more tragic division of Moldova.

Aleksanyan already has a verdict - his diagnosis The trial of Vasily A. Vasily Aleksanyan already has one verdict - his diagnosis. On Monday, February 4, the newly appointed judge of the Simonovsky District Court of Moscow, Olga Nedelina, studies all 115 volumes of the criminal case. The second day is the trial on the merits. On the third day, a decision was made: Aleksanyan should be treated. The process has been suspended.

I remember how Alexei Kudrin, having learned about the resignation of Alexander Voloshin from the post of head of the Kremlin administration (Voloshin wrote a statement on the day of the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and Kudrin, by his own admission, preventively advised the security forces and assured them that the action would not have a long-term negative impact on the economy), declared as he exhaled: “Byzantium is over!” Oh, hurry up. Examples? Yes, as much as you like!

From what rubbish does modern poetry grow? From what rubbish ... "The latest poetry is divided into two types: poems that cannot be read, and poems that can not be read." This statement does not date from today, but far from us in 1923. Is it relevant today? Why, on the one hand, modern poetry exists on the periphery of the reader's attention, and on the other hand, it increasingly penetrates the world of glamor and gloss, The New Times tries to figure out.