Self-criticism of the writer Prilepin "God exists, the motherland is eternal, you will die." Zakhar Prilepin, the author of the sensational novel Sankya, is one of the most active and famous modern writers.

On April 1, not only funny events happen. This year, the humorous date coincides with the centenary of the birth of Lev Emmanuilovich Razgon, who lived a long, noble and intelligent life - 91 years. Dispersal writer, Dispersal-political prisoner, Dispersal - a true Russian intellectual who was not able to harm even the executioners. Acceleration firmly remembered the formula: do not believe, do not be afraid, do not ask.

Academician Vitaly Ginzburg — The New Times The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted Resolution No. 1580 recommending that the governments of the member states of the Council of Europe refuse to teach creationism, the theory of the divine creation of the world as an antithesis of the theory of evolution, in schools. “Science should not be opposed to faith and faith should not be allowed to oppose itself to science,” the resolution says.

Printed with abbreviations. Read in full at shender.ru Once this central Yerevan square was called, like all the central squares of the empire, Lenin Square. Today it is the Republic Square, but the cast-iron sickle and hammer over the front doors of the ministry have not gone away. However, above one of the doors, these tools are already closed with the Converse Bank logo. Time here, of course, moved somewhere, but stuck halfway.

“We are fed up with formats!” Novaya Gazeta, one of the most innovative and successful media projects of the post-Soviet era, turns 15 on April 1st. The New Times dealt with the national characteristics of the democratic press together with the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta Dmitry Muratov to Andrey Kolesnikov Dmitry, to put it bluntly, your newspaper is somehow wrong. A strange appearance, a strange periodicity ... Did it happen by itself or was it specially invented?

Fools village. Not in some kingdom, not in some state, but at the entrance to the village of Durakovo, Kaluga region, there is a real stone palace. Large and white, bizarrely blending into the rest of the rural landscape with its rickety houses and rotten fences Stupid roads in this Durakovo, all the German tanks got bogged down in the war. But at the village itself, civilization suddenly begins. A flat paved parking area with about a dozen cars lined up.

Why the court in the case of the murder of Andrey Kozlov was closed Frenkel without discount. As soon as at the court hearing in the case of the murder of the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank Andrey Kozlov, it was said: “Bank Discount”, so the judge of the Moscow City Court Natalya Olikhver immediately declared the hearings closed.

The new face of liberal politics On April 5, in St. Petersburg, the Democrats will make another attempt to unite. A new face will appear on the scene of Russian liberal politics. Vladimir Milov, a former Deputy Minister of Energy and a well-known specialist in the field of oil and gas, decided to part with his expert activities and go into politics. What Vladimir Milov is counting on - about this in an interview with The New Times Vladimir Milov - Evgeny Albats Why You Need It?

One - love, the other - arrests A sign of the times: if there are arrests in Minsk, then spring has come. Every year in late March - early April, the Belarusian authorities organize sweeps in the ranks of the opposition on the eve of the approaching Independence Day of Belarus. This year we have already reached the journalists. The purge is on a large scale: searches in the apartments of journalists in Minsk, Gomel, Vitebsk, Brest, Grodno and Bobruisk. What they are looking for is unclear.

Soviet Reporting Day April Fool's Day is just in the middle between the election of a new president and seeing off the old one. It happened - no one is to blame. Through this bright holiday, figuratively speaking, the past reaches out to the future. The point of balance, the pillar of stability - the state-forming role of the fool has been studied by science to an absolutely insufficient degree. What do we have today? A set of platitudes. Fools the law is not written?

The most stupid statement, the most ridiculous decision, the most stupid politician On the eve of April 1 - April Fool's Day - The New Times invited Russian politicians, economists, journalists, writers and actors to remember all the stupidest things that happened in Russia during the year. Namely, the most stupid statement, the most stupid decision and the most stupid politician. Readers of The New Times also took part in the survey.

Will he give the Kuril Islands to the Japanese? At the end of April, Vladimir Putin will receive Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda. There is no doubt: among the issues discussed there will definitely be the issue of the Kuril Islands Japan made another attempt to resolve the issue of ownership of the South Kuril Islands in its favor. This time, the Land of the Rising Sun took an unconventional path.

Following the question “Who are you with, masters of culture?” the time has come to ask a similar question to intellectuals - scientists, specialists, experts. The Institute of Contemporary Development, a research center, was created, the head of the board of trustees of which is Dmitry Medvedev. There are many well-known names on the guest list. What does it mean to invite intellectuals with liberal reputations to the expert team of the new president?

Reader, do you remember the last time a large-scale economic reform began in Russia? Yes, the reform of RAO UES continues, or rather, is being completed (the death of this natural monopoly is scheduled for June 30, 2008). Do you remember other reforms? From this point on, read carefully. At the suggestion of Alexei Kudrin, Vladimir Putin gave the green light to the banking reform. This is her backstory.

Swing for a ruble, hit for a penny. So they said in the yards of our childhood. Who would have thought that this phrase would accurately describe the state of money circulation in the country. A penny, that is, it is not there ... But the point is not in it, but in the new ten-ruble coin.