NASA is again looking for water on the Red Planet Secrets of the Red Planet. The international spacecraft "Phoenix" has started the first experiments. The minimum task is to detect traces of water in the Martian soil, which, as you know, is the basis of terrestrial life. The "Phoenix", which landed on Mars at the end of May, landed near the polar cap, where, scientists suggest, there may be underground water, more precisely, ice.

Gadis Gadzhiev - The New Times The Constitutional Court of Russia (KS) began working in a new place in St. Petersburg, and immediately announced the resonant decision-in the case of Manana Aslamazyan (The New Times No. 22, 2008), which many considered a sign of the thaw. Gadis Gadzhiev, a judge of the Constitutional Court from the date of its founding in 1991, spoke about the features of the work of the Constitutional Court in the new conditions of The New Times.

Unsummed results of "Kinotavr" Looking for something. The bar for Kinotavr was set by films by venerable directors based on books by modern classics: “Live and Remember” by Alexander Proshkin based on Valentin Rasputin and “The Captive” by Alexei Uchitel based on Vladimir Makanin.

Mikhail Zadornov — The New Times "Money has become more expensive." The question that does not leave the pages of the world media is the financial crisis: has the bottom point been passed or will it get worse? And how did it affect the state of the Russian economy? Former Finance Minister Mikhail Zadornov spoke about this in an interview with The New Times. In Russia, judgments about the impact of the crisis can be heard in different ways.

Igor Shuvalov's statement that officials sitting on the boards of directors of state-owned companies should give way to non-officials caused considerable enthusiasm. And it allowed commentators to draw a conclusion about the forthcoming almost revolution in the system of state property management.

Yevgeny Yasin — The New Times Yevgeny Yasin, Academic Supervisor of the Higher School of Economics, witnessed all the post-war liberalizations, and took an active part in some of them, including as Minister of Economics. Do changes really await us, and if they do, how deep - found out The New Times Yevgeny Grigoryevich, you are an experienced person, you have survived more than one thaw and therefore, probably, you can assess the current liberalization - is it real or imaginary?

Football is a non -fingered field for anthropologists. In the moments of this collective oblivion, we are all like a palm.

In memory of Chingiz Aitmatov Director Andrei Konchalovsky, writers Fazil Iskander and Viktor Erofeev spoke about the author of the famous novels The White Steamboat, The Scaffold, And The Day Lasts Longer Than A Century. Fazil Iskander, writer Aitmatov is a great humanist writer: this definition fits him very well. He believed that now is a crisis of humanistic values, and I agree with him.

"You rule the world, girls!" or "Sex and the City" is released For six seasons we were shown how four friends are looking for their happiness. The path was thorny: everything that came across - unpretentious sailors, boring intellectuals, laborers and millionaires, went into the furnace of the indefatigable passions of four women. Men huddled in the corners of this feminine universe.

What is it like to be a Chechen in Russia Russians and Chechens - brothers forever? The publishing house "Nauka" publishes a collection of articles "Chechens in the history, politics, science and culture of Russia" with a circulation of three thousand copies. The book was in a hurry to publish by June 12 - the Day of Russia.

Change of faces or change of course Less state. They want to replace its representatives with professional managers on the boards of directors of the largest state-owned companies. Will the latter work more efficiently from this? Firstly, independent directors representing the state under contract have been serving on the boards of directors of large companies for a long time, and this has not brought any breakthroughs in terms of transparency.

Chicherin in the Kremlin service In the air, it smelled of liberalism. Togu liberal is tried on different higher officials, including the president. New faces begin to appear in ideological discussions, which are conducted under the auspices of various structures, including even United Russia.

Russian society now resembles a child who, having lurked his breath, is waiting: the father, having come home from work, stroke the head or, conversely, will break? Despite the fact that the “father” has two faces - president and super -premiere - the expectation of both candy, and belt, or both at once, equally reasonably. Nevertheless, in the first of all, this shaky hope is poured at least for some changes.

The concept of “putting a film on the shelf” has reappeared in cinema. This phrase was known to Soviet directors when censorship did not allow films to be released on the wide screen. But today, in addition to political ones, there are also commercial ones.

Swiss Watches. It was on them that in the first week of Euro 2008 the favorites predictably beat the non-favorites - measuredly and inexorably. How many had to be scored in 90 minutes, so many were scored. The Portuguese - to the Turks, the Germans - to the Poles, the Spaniards - to ours True, it seems to you that the Spaniards stuffed Russia a little too much - after Pavlyuchenko's goal, everything could have stopped at least 1:3. No obvious destruction.