Catch up and overtake China. The coming change of faces in the Kremlin and the White House has been marked by old-new fears that the Russian authorities will try to control the Internet, as their Chinese, Cuban and Iranian comrades have done. The myths and realities of the Sovereign Internet project were sorted out by The New Times As you know, at the beginning of his reign, Vladimir Putin was very fond of watching TV.

75 years ago, the Nazis created the first concentration camp - Dachau The mocking slogan Arbeit macht frei (Work makes you free) was placed on the gates of many camps, including Dachau “Subject to re-education behind barbed wire.” 75 years ago, the Nazis who came to power created the first concentration camp - Dachau From Munich to this small town is only ten minutes by train. The picturesque Bavarian landscape outside the window is suddenly replaced by a gray soundproof wall.

"People please the authorities for the sake of money, profit, the opportunity to advance in their art" What is the intelligentsia in Russia? How were its relations with the authorities built and are being built?

Provence cuisine contributes to longevity and a calm perception of life. Our guides to the "soft underbelly of France" and its gastronomy - Alphonse Daudet and Marcel Pagnol “Yes, but if game is such a rarity in Tarascon,” you say, “then what do the Tarascon hunters do on Sundays? What are they doing? Oh my god! They go to the field, two miles, three miles from the city.

The size of Russia's external corporate debt amounted to $350 billion and exceeded a third of the country's GDP. How Russian business lives with such an unbearable burden, analyzed The New Times Dmitry Dokuchaev, BusinessWeek Russia for The New Times This year is a jubilee one: 10 years ago, the most severe financial crisis in recent Russian history occurred. It was called, if anyone forgot, default and consisted in the inability of the state to pay off its debts.

Before the Central Election Committee had time to properly click its beak, announcing the country's capture of the next gaping height, the liberal democrats and democratic liberals, who lost to the nines and ashes in this political Monte Carlo, longed for a thaw, and even out loud. They quite amused the KGB public. “Will we have a thaw soon?” This is with oil prices of 108 bucks! Dmitry Medvedev, fortunately, is a well-mannered person.

“I consider God the greatest director in the world!” The way of the minion. Last year, he passed 70, but Claude Lelouch is not going to leave the cinema, even after he was first recognized as a living classic, and then called "the shame of French cinema" Well, why, it would seem, the multiple winner of all awards and festivals in the world, the author of "Men and Women" continues to make new films, doomed to unfavorable comparisons with past masterpieces?

Readers are worried: will Dmitry Medvedev be fired for absenteeism? And here's the thing. For days, after packing his things, President-elect Dmitry Medvedev moved from the White House to the Kremlin - to the 14th building, to an office with green wallpaper and yellow ornaments. He held the first meeting on an acute problem, which, obviously, could not wait for May 7, the day of the inauguration - on fishing.

Viktor Khryapa again got into the “basket” of CSKA Once upon a time from America. For the first time in the history of relations between the Russian Superleague and the American National Basketball Association (NBA), a Russian player returned home in the middle of the season - to the team from which he left at the time. Viktor Khryapa, European champion and ex-forward of the Chicago Bulls, again plays for CSKA The return was not easy.

The play "A Man from the USSR" Nabokov wrote in 1926. In this picture, he is captured very young - his first collection of poems has just been released. The Russian Nabokov is now published in its entirety. The book "The Tragedy of Mr. Morn" is unique not only because it contains the first full publication of the play "A Man from the USSR".

Is intelligentsia a Russian word? Well, also Polish. And in the works of the German sociologist and philosopher Max Weber at the end of the 19th century, it is also found. No, the intelligentsia is not a national word, it is imperial, from the language where the poet and the tsar are connected by one union, and “poet” is with a lower case, and “Tsar” is always with a capital one. Intelligentsia is a Soviet word.

Opinions of cultural figures about themselves The New Times turned to cultural figures - directors, actors, writers - with the question of what is the role of the Russian intelligentsia in the life of the country today. With whom are they - masters of culture? Mark Zakharov, director: “What Putin did in the early years was probably necessary” I think that the real Russian intelligentsia refuses a lot and does not participate in many things, having already been taught by some bitter experience.

Comrade Major will like your jokes again Listen submitted. There are a lot of devices for wiretapping and detecting this wiretapping on the "market". Listen submitted.

In the city of Cheboksary, high officials strongly recommended that the foreign word "okay" be taken out of use. That's how it was. Calls the Biggest Boss of the Most Executive Subordinate. “Well, how is our land there?” - "Blossoms! Even in winter. Bread all around. Stern. Our guys are mastering nanotechnology. Cows are milked, tractors do not crawl out of the fields.

Small business does not want to grow on Russian soil. No matter how much you water it, or hill it, it still does not grow. Just as it accounted for 10-15% of GDP in the late 90s, it still accounts for 11-13% now. At the same time, regular attempts by the authorities to somehow stimulate the process, firstly, leave a strong feeling of what has already been seen more than once, and secondly, cause at least distrust.