Tymoshenko and Yushchenko fight over gas Ukraine again breathed gas with a full chest. There will soon be no intermediary in relations with Gazprom - RosUkrEnergo: the Ukrainian energy company Naftogaz and its Russian partner will create joint ventures for gas supplies.

On the eve of the change of power in Russia, citizens decide how to save their money. Ways to solve this problem, as The New Times found out, sometimes turn out to be very non-standard. Moscow, downtown... One exchange office, second, tenth: the goal is to buy a thousand euros. In three, they answered that the euro “ran out before lunch” and, probably, they will no longer be there that day.

Rally democracy returned to Armenia for a while In the presidential elections in Armenia, an official from the present and a popular tribune from the past clashed. Whether Armenians will vote with their hearts is a big question When they write about Armenia in Russia, they usually write about two things: the Karabakh conflict and the pro-Russian orientation of the republic (unlike neighboring Georgia).

Vladimir Putin says goodbye. But it does not leave Vladimir Putin found his "place in the ranks." Finally, the meaning of his protracted “farewell tour” became clear: he says goodbye so that he would not go anywhere.

Galers of Slave Putin and Slave Dmitry. Before our eyes, the Kremlin plays a classic game in a good and evil investigator. The successor is liberal, kind and with all its appearance promises a “thaw”. Putin is harsh, rude, offers Western partners to learn to cook cabbage soup The Kremlin press conference of Vladimir Putin placed most points over I.

Why the president needs an unconstitutional body Suitable place. Many probably remembered the State Council of the Russian Federation only on the occasion of the recent speech there President Putin with one of his "farewell" speeches. Everything is clear with speech, but the question remained: who is mr. Gossovet?

Here she was not. For 70 years we have not had politics. In the sense that there was no public policy, normal elections, tools for influencing political decisions. Then there were a lot of politics at once. She spilled onto the streets and in the halls of the congresses of people's deputies. Further - more: we said with displeasure that “Yeltsin is in every bed”, and politicians speak from the iron.

Michael Rediske — The New Times The international organization Reporters Without Borders presented its annual report on the state of press freedom in the world. Why Russia is not Zimbabwe, Michael Radiske, board member of Reporters Without Borders, told The New Times What are the main trends regarding the situation with the freedom of the press in 2007? First of all, we are talking about the record number of journalists killed.

On the other side of Yukos. Until now, it was believed that the destruction and actual nationalization of Yukos, without causing significant damage to the Russian economy, brought billions of dollars to the state and its budget. However, things are exactly the opposite: the financial damage that has already been caused and will be inflicted on the state is estimated at billions of dollars.

Why Public-Private Partnerships Didn't Work The public-private partnership is showing a stalemate. The reasons why the scheme of co-financing by the state and business of large projects, on which great "state capitalist" hopes were pinned, do not work, The New Times understood Investment development of the regions is a bluff, and the notorious public-private partnership (PPP) gives absolutely zero results.

The New Times vs FSB Lawyer Yuri Kostanov, representing the interests of The New Times magazine and its special correspondent Natalia Morar, filed an application with the Meshchansky Court, in which he demands to declare illegal "the actions and decisions of the FSB of the Russian Federation to prevent the return to the Russian Federation to continue working" journalist Morari.

Criminal case against the Beslan mothers The Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office of Beslan opened a criminal case against the Beslan mothers Three women from the Beslan Voice Committee - Ella Kesaeva, Svetlana Margiev and Emilia Bzarov - were called on the agenda in the department of the Office of the Federal Bailiff Service (UFSSP) in North Ossetia. Cause?

Foreign specialists in modern Russian theater are alarmed. There are no acutely social performances in Russia. Today in the newspaper - tomorrow in the verse: this can be said about the theater in almost all European countries, but not about ours. And in this case, one will have to agree with the opinion of foreigners, no matter how much the patriotic heart hurts from this.

About how James Watson himself evaluates his discovery today, the scientist spoke in an interview with The New Times 55 years ago, when you saw that DNA is two complementary chains, did you immediately link it to heredity? Yes. After all, before there were talks that heredity should be based on copying complementary molecules.

Joy shared with us by many worthy people 1. Member of the Federation Council Natalya Dementyeva and editor-in-chief of The New Times magazine Irena Lesnevskaya 2. Editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta Dmitry Muratov 3.Director Julius Gusman 4. Rector of the New Economic School Sergey Guriev and economist Ekaterina Zhuravskaya 5. Chairman of the Glasnost Defense Foundation Alexei Simonov and Editor-in-Chief of the Progress-Pleyada Publishing House Stanislav Lesnevsky 6.