150 thousand euros for four square meters - this is the price of a grave in one of the central cemeteries of Moscow. In terms of investment efficiency, business is dying ahead of investments in deluxe housing. Five years ago, prices for elite burials were at least five times lower. The New Times understood the peculiarities of the funeral boom A close relative dies of a far from poor businessman.

Constant annoying comparisons of "United Russia" with the CPSU - tired, by golly! It's time to dot the i's and finally acknowledge the full advantage of the new organization over its legendary communist grandmother. Let's look at the question practically: why did you join the CPSU? Let's leave aside the saints and the poor - I'm talking about the bulk. That's right, they joined in order to travel abroad for clothes, and made a career in order to have rations.

Retro shooter after "Election Day" The Battix case. An adventure movie about the civil war in the tradition of "Own Among Strangers..." and "Bread, Gold, Revolver" presents a familiar genre model in a negative format. The heroes were the White Guards, who saved Nicholas II from execution, the villains were the unscrupulous Chekists. Film gentlemen officers.

The literary twins I. Ilf and E. Petrov left us a funny story from the time of the NEP, but you can’t guess from it about the horrors of Solovki, that is, about the wings in front of which Ostap Bender and Shura Balaganov dance on stage. Especially since the authors passionately love the power of the "workers and peasants" and despise the "former" and Nepmen.

Scientists discuss models of the coming apocalypse Apocalypse tomorrow: wait or calm down? In a hundred years, Siberia will be warmer by 8 O C, and worldwide - an average of 2 O C. By the end of the century, world GDP per capita could fall by 20%.

Women Against AIDS” is an exhibition by photo artist Serge Golovach organized to draw the attention of Russian society to the problems of HIV-infected people: Russia occupies one of the leading places in the world in terms of the growth rate of AIDS.

Party "United Russia": raids, showdowns, groupings Chernomyrdin's immortal "whatever organization we create, it turns out to be the CPSU" - "United Russia" proves in practice All week before the United Russia congress, analysts and the media wondered whether Putin would become Secretary General or not, whether he would join the party or not, whether he needed it to acquire the status of a national leader, or so well (about why the outgoing president needs the post of Secretary General, see page

This year marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Arkadyevich Galich. Once disgraced and banned, today Galich is represented by many publications. The All Galich collection is released on CD. And here's what is remarkable: Galich again sounds relevant, as if talking about our time Galich is not known. They do not like and do not know. They do not love because of some stubborn inertia, not particularly bothering themselves with knowledge.

Have you ever wondered: what year of the last century do you consider it personified? My answer: 1968. 40 years ago, and it was in April-May, there was a whole scattering of the brightest events that shook, if not overturned, the foundations that seemed unshakable. Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4th. On April 10, the Communist Party newspaper of Czechoslovakia Rude pravo published the Program of Action, the proclamation of the Prague Spring.

Mikhail Leontiev, host of the program "However" on Channel One - The New Times “It was a liquidation commission” A number of people who now have nothing to do with anything were really involved in the formation of the Unity party. It was a temporary coalition united by a variety of reasons, formed as an opposition to Primakov. Because the entire business and the entire political elite then fell under the "Fatherland", they already saw themselves as winners.

I think, comrade Shostakovich, that if you fit in well, you will be able to attribute music to this opera ... I know about you that you were even hired at the Conservatory - it’s a mess to teach music there.” "I personally am a future talent, a nugget writer and a modern classic." “And what I like is the ballet Romeo and Juliet. I didn’t know this thing before, and, unfortunately, I also had no idea who its author was, but I sent this postcard “poste restante” to this author ...

Vladimir Ryzhkov: "It's crazy when legislation is unconstitutional" The party said "must"! During the eight years of the dominance of the "party of power" in the State Duma, a huge set of legislation has been created, which, in fact, cancels the Constitution and redistributes the country's wealth in favor of the bureaucracy Vladimir Ryzhkov, State Duma deputy 1993–2007 The work of United Russia in the parliament proceeded in three main directions.

Who knows, perhaps someday historians of the new CPSU will argue about who, how and for what reasons he created the party in power at the beginning of the 21st century.

The authors of the bill "On the monetary policy of the Russian Federation" decided that if someone does not want to recognize the ruble as the world reserve currency "in a good way", Russia will do it "in a bad way". The causes and consequences of a possible "ruble war" were analyzed by The New Times One of the financial ideas formulated by Dmitry Medvedev when he was still a presidential candidate is to make the Russian ruble an international reserve currency.

Inflation in Russia from 1 to 7 April was 0.5%. Since the beginning of the year, it has reached a value of 5.3%. It turns out that the diagnosis of Alexei Kudrin turned out to be accurate - the economy is overheated Attempts to explain the rise in inflation by one-time factors, such as a record capital inflow in the first half of last year, or a monopoly collusion of retail chains, have proved untenable.