Missile boat R-71. In 1991, there were 32 missile ships in the Black Sea Fleet, 19 remained: 12 - in the Black Sea Fleet, 7 - in the Ukrainian Navy The Cold War for Sevastopol between Kiev and Moscow is already in its 17th year. Now the next phase of aggravation: the leadership of Ukraine has indicated its unwillingness to see the base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet (BSF) in Crimea after 2017.

Evgeny Gontmakher - about the secrets of pension reform The country is preparing a new pension reform. This happens in the strictest secrecy. Meanwhile, the issue concerns not only millions of current pensioners, but the entire population of the country.

The book "Notes of the Popadya" was published Popadya is a feminist. How do seminary students meet their future wives? How do priests spend their leisure time and what is it all about - the leisure of a priest? What is it like to be the wife of a modern clergyman? Why do priests get fat and how much do cassocks cost, which, it turns out, are also subject to fashion trends?

Theater for children with disabilities, which was not Russian blogs flew around a message from a certain Olchen from St. Petersburg. Friends, she wrote in her LiveJournal, we urgently need your help. Officials take away the premises from the theater for children with disabilities and give it to some boxing club.

Experts predict a long-term end to the conflict The conflict between TNK-BP shareholders is one of the most discussed topics in the business community. Even Tony Blair, the former British prime minister who, along with Vladimir Putin, sanctioned the 2003 merger of the two companies, even visited Moscow as a private individual last week. What is behind this conflict: politics or "nothing personal, just business" - The New Times interviewed experts The conflict causes mixed feelings.

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Well, here we are in the European Union - that is, in the G8. Eight of the chosen ones who left the group stage. For which, of course, a European guide was needed. Guus Hiddink. Here, by the way, the other day they managed to elevate another Dutchman - Dick Advocaat for the UEFA Cup he won became an honorary citizen of the city of St. Petersburg. Since then, he has the right to free travel on public transport.

Waiting for a transport collapse Every day in the capital there are about 850 traffic jams. Their length is tens or even hundreds of kilometers. In each traffic jam there is an average of 1.5 thousand cars. There are 3300 cars for every square kilometer of the capital. Experts say: just a little more - and Moscow will finally rise.

Moscow is twice as dirty as New York Moscow is twice as dirty as New York, bypasses Delhi in terms of gas pollution, and in terms of environmental safety it is equal to Bangui in the Central African Republic. The reason is simple: there are too many of us, and too little expensive Moscow land. The master plan for the development of Moscow, adopted in 2000, assumed that about 9 million people would live in Moscow. The 2002 census already counted 10.2 million people.

Igor Yurgens and Dmitry Medvedev at the meeting Chairman of the Board of the Institute of Contemporary Development (INSOR) and vice-president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Igor Yurgens said that President Medvedev is waging a "silent war" with the security forces and hardliners of the country's development.

Yakov Urinson - The New Times Since July 1, I have ceased to exist one of the largest energy holdings in the world of RAO UES of Russia. How will the country's energy system work further? Will the population encounter mass accidents in networks, fan shutdings and uncontrolled growth in electricity prices?

Mikhail Gorbachev — The New Times “I was standing on board a rocking ship that could well have been flooded” - Mikhail Gorbachev, a main participant in the events of 20 years ago, on why he gave power to the Soviets Mikhail Sergeevich, you compare the 19th party conference with a ship in a stormy sea. Really so rocked? And how. The threat was such that it would flood through the stern, the wave would knock everything to hell. After all, they moved in steps ... My God, not steps - steps.

Dmitry Muratov on the investigation into the murder of Anna Politkovskaya The news of the completion of the investigation into the murder of Anna Politkovskaya was, to say the least, unexpected. The killer has not yet been caught, and the customer has not been identified.

The last lecture from the creator of virtual reality Randy Posh Professor Randy Posh had a dream as a child. And not alone. But one thing made him famous all over the world: he figured out how to create virtual reality. Only not in the cinema ("Lawnmower Man", "Matrix"), but in real life. In the famous Disneyland, in the US Department of Defense, in the classes of Carnegie Mellon University, where he teaches computer science.

My informed acquaintances assure me that the reason for the war between the Russian and non-Russian shareholders of TNK-BP is "purely a conflict of commercial interests." Interests, of course, commercial. The question is what do we trade? So let's better look at the matter ignorantly.