Maria Rozanova-Sinyavskaya — The New Times "I'm afraid to die of irritation." Maria Vasilievna Rozanova, the widow of Andrei Sinyavsky, has always been in opposition to the authorities and rulers: first to the Soviet rulers, and later to Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin. Before the accession to the throne of the new leader of the country, The New Times met with Maria Rozanova It is well known that Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky's disagreements with the Soviet authorities were stylistic.

José Mourinho - The New Times Jose Mourinho, who coached Roman Abramovich's club for three and a half years and achieved all possible titles with the team, with the exception of winning the Champions League, came to Moscow for the farewell match of Dmitry Alenichev, who once played with him at Porto with some success.

Eldar Ryazanov went to Georgia, where Mikheil Saakashvili presented him with the Order of Honor. I think that there is no need to explain why such an award can be presented to Ryazanov. I think Ryazanov can be given something every day. And no matter how much you give, it will still not be enough. So, when Ryazanov returned to Moscow, some of our footcloths said that Ryazanov was not a patriot. In the sense that Saakashvili is our enemy, but Ryazanov did not understand this.

Rising oil prices above $120 a barrel are making summer vacations much more expensive than they were a year or two ago. Thousands of Russians will feel it for themselves at the end of May. The New Times dealt with the collisions of the tourist market This is not an anecdote from the era of unbridled "oil" inflation, but a completely trivial story. On May 3–4, Sky Express Airlines held a Happy Hour promotion. Tickets from Moscow to St.

He loves his Motherland so much that he shoots his own, native soldiers, ”they say about one of the generals who won the Great Patriotic War. These are the words from the play "The Naked Pioneer" by the Sovremennik Theater. The production, which has been going on for more than one season, has remained the rarest phenomenon in our theatrical (and not only theatrical) art. Part of the public was indignant: they raised their hand to the most sacred. Heroes are humiliated, winners are judged.

State deputies demonstrated miracles of training Vladimir Putin's appointment as prime minister was orchestrated by the Kremlin down to the smallest detail. The questions of the deputies, the texts of the speeches of the faction leaders were coordinated with the presidential administration, the votes for and against were calculated with an accuracy of one.

What kind of power should it be and where should it turn - to face the East, and to the West with its back, or vice versa? In recent days, this question has been raised not only by the citizens of the Russian Federation, who have chosen a new president for themselves, but also by the cinema. The answers could well have formed an order to the head of the state taking office.

Inauguration Day “I attach particular attention to the fundamental role of law, on which both our state and our civil society are based. We must achieve true respect for the law, overcome legal nihilism, which seriously hinders modern development,” said Dmitry Medvedev, speaking at his inauguration. On the same day, the cases of participants in the failed "March of Dissent" were considered in Moscow courts.

Who did the Kremlin scare with armored vehicles The last time tanks entered the center of Moscow "on business" was in October 1993. In the front line along Red Square, heavy military equipment rumbled almost 18 years ago - on November 7, 1990.

A number of the world's largest investment banks, including Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank, call the ruble one of the most attractive currencies for investment, at least for the next six months. Analysts believe that high inflation will force the authorities to make a fundamental decision to accelerate the strengthening of the ruble.

The ex-president did not forget his Towards the end of his presidency, Vladimir Putin concluded a whole series of deals related to the distribution of state assets to close commercial structures. During his last foreign visit, Vladimir Putin wrote off $ 4.5 billion of public debt swelling from petrodollars in Libya 1 in exchange for future contracts for the supply of weapons to structures controlled by Sergei Chemezov.

How Russia and Georgia get divorced According to André Maurois, the French marshal Lyauté sometimes said to his orderly: "Henri, my dear, get my old beret ready, tomorrow I will trample it in a fit of unbridled rage." Every self-respecting state should have in reserve some completely useless international agreement that it could trample on without much damage to itself in order to demonstrate extreme displeasure The 1995 agreement on cooperation in the field of air defense, signed by ten CIS

Who will the new president rely on? Key posts in the country today are occupied by Putin's people. What is the team of the new president under these conditions? On whom can Dmitry Medvedev rely - or is he assigned purely decorative functions? Russia's new president, Dmitry Medvedev, was a member of Vladimir Putin's team for many years. And there is no doubt that he will maintain the continuity of the course worked out by his predecessor.

In Myanmar (formerly Burma), a devastating tsunami killed between 80,000 and 100,000 people. However, the official authorities, the ruling military junta in the country, cite figures that are five times smaller: 22,997 people. According to the UN, 1.5 million people living in the coastal regions of the country will face starvation and disease if they are not immediately provided with assistance: fresh water, food, medicine, special facilities for the burial of tens of thousands of the dead.

The forty-fifth season of Taganka does not smell of old age. The furious youth of the Master, who entered the encyclopedias and annals, still brightens up the innate fatigue of our intelligentsia and the helpless old age of the country that never found its way to the Temple. And the author of The Castle, Kafka, is 125 years old, and he has not faded either: as long as there is Russia, Kafka will be relevant. This time the performance program includes two essays by E.