After Putin became the head of United Russia, the fate of A Just Russia (SR) was covered in pitch fog. Two points of view are fighting in the Kremlin: to close the project altogether or leave it for further takeovers on the left flank. Which one will win - researched by The New Times Party building in Russia is akin to the experiments of Chinese emperors, who imprisoned babies in bizarre vases in order to grow an unusually shaped freak.

Zimbabwe looks more like Russia than Ukraine Zimbabwe is at the mercy of the military: they are responsible for everything that happens in the country. The police stormed the headquarters of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Hundreds of oppositionists have been arrested. However, recalculating votes now gives victory to the presidential party According to the army command, it seeks to protect the population and preserve the territorial integrity of the country.

I wonder which of the readers (professional accountants do not count) will be able to say offhand how much he earns? He does not receive his hands once a month, namely, he earns officially. In rubles, accurate to the penny. And how much is he charged before tax and how much is income tax? For the majority, these questions are still theoretical in nature, since the employer takes care of all the relationships between employees and the tax authorities.

Will San Francisco disappear into the earth's crust? In April 1906, an earthquake hit San Francisco, killing more than 3,000 people and leaving 300,000 homeless. After 83 years, another thing happened, although not so terrible in terms of consequences. Catastrophists predict: sooner or later there will be a big earthquake that will raze San Francisco to the ground, and the city will disappear into huge breaches in the earth's crust.

It's done. Our morals are in safe hands. Soon a Commission on Morality will be created, which will save us from the pernicious influence of the West, and from the propaganda of violence in the media, help create a positive image of a working man, law enforcement and special services, and promote military duty. The initiator of the creation of this long overdue Commission is the President of St. Petersburg State University, Lyudmila Verbitskaya.

Was Gogol a Mogul? It turns out not. But on the other hand, he discovered extensive knowledge in Ukrainian and Russian cuisine The names of "historical" dishes often include the names of great people who had nothing to do with their creation. It got ridiculous: Pompadour cutlets, Richelieu chickens, Radziwill pike perch, Metternich pies, Consomme Nelson.

In the spring of 1982, I returned from the Soviet army and lay down on the sofa. There were no commands from outside, and for a while I lay there enjoying it. Around the middle of the summer, it suddenly dawned on me that there would be no more teams. And that if I don’t plan to lie like this until the grave, I need to do something with myself. I went outside and got on the bus. The bus went to the subway.

At last, a reasonable use was found for oil super-profits: the State Duma adopted in the third reading a law on additional contributions to the funded part of the pension and on state co-financing of these deductions.

Donor blood disappeared from Russia For Russian medicine, the long May holidays threaten to turn into a humanitarian catastrophe. On the eve of the holidays, experts sounded the alarm: there is no donor blood in the country. The New Times dealt with the possible consequences and causes of the shortage Do not offer me any more alcohol, please, never at all, even in minimal quantities. Fatty, fried, dairy and bananas too, ”Anna Egorova writes in her Internet diary.

From the life of officials of the new era Official happiness. Putin's eight-year plan has become an era of prosperity for officials. He returned them status, privileges, money. It is the officials - in uniform and without them - the support of the outgoing president and the soon-to-be prime minister We do not plow, we do not sow, we do not build, We are proud of the social order. We are paper, important people, We were, and we are, and we will be.

The revolution was far from the emancipation of art Freedom in art, which became another “sign” of the 60s, of course, had the same nature as the emancipation of consciousness.

Will the St. Petersburg Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange project come to fruition? By May, the International Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange (MTSB) should be registered in St. Petersburg, which has been talked about so much for more than a year now. During this time, foreign participants were cut off from the project, and the prospects for St.

The program of the upcoming 61st Cannes Film Festival has been announced in France. It found a place for the most anticipated premieres of the upcoming season - Hollywood, Asian and European. Only Russia is not represented in the competition This year there are two anniversaries of Russian cinema at once. The first is the centenary of Russian cinematography: a date that is very important for us, but does not arouse the interest of the world community. The second is essential for Cannes.

Flying over the nest of the Polish "Seagull" “Young people laugh at what my generation believed. And this is good". World-famous Polish theater director Krystian Lupa visited Moscow - his performance of The Seagull at the Alexandrinsky Theater was brought to the Golden Mask. Christian Lupa entered the art of Poland in the 1980s and set the path for its development for decades to come.

"Import-Export" by Ulrich Seidl Life is cold. The Austrian avant-garde and radical Ulrich Seidl made more than ten documentaries - and only two feature films. Moreover, the first of them, "Dog Heat", received the Grand Prix in Venice, and the second, a completely new "Import-Export", made no less noise (although it remained without awards) a year ago in Cannes. Now this shocking spectacle, most of which was filmed in Ukraine, has reached our screens.