So it came together: on the day of the 45th birthday of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the Russia-EU summit opened in Khanty-Mansiysk. This time no one remembered the disgraced oligarch in the city, which until recently was the main pearl of his financial empire. The New Times tried to understand: why Khanty-Mansiysk? The EU leaders ended up in Khanty-Mansiysk at the behest of Vladimir Putin.

It just so happened in Russia from the Senate Square, from December 14, 1825. The authorities declared war on the youth, its aspirations, daring, stupidity, dreams and delusions. First, the romantic Decembrists were rotted or hanged. In 1849, the same pacifier and despot Nicholas I dispersed the Petrashevsky circle, where young people eagerly read Fourier and Saint-Simon. They both offered the purest nonsense, but was it necessary to put Dostoevsky on the firing post for this?

What is happening with Vasily Aleksanyan and Svetlana Bakhmina Yukos lawyers Vasily Aleksanyan and Svetlana Bakhmina turned from defenders into defendants. The New Times remembered the prisoners In the City Clinical Hospital No. 60, bars have not been removed from two windows for several months now. On the fifth floor of the hematology department, the same guards of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) walk back and forth along the corridor.

Financial pyramid schemes are not a thing of the past and continue to ruin our overly gullible compatriots Of course, the scope and scale of modern financial pyramids is not as impressive as it was during the "wild market" of the early 90s. Then, according to some reports, several tens of millions of people who lost more than $ 25 billion suffered from the activities of Sergei Mavrodi, Valentina Solovyova, Lev Konstantinov and other "noble" pyramid builders.

From party maximum to the list of Forbes magazine. Who was smarter: the leader of the world proletariat and the creator of the world's first workers' and peasants' state, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, or "the head of the subdepartment for cleaning the city of Moscow from stray animals (cats, etc.) in the M.K.Kh." Polygraph Poligrafovich Sharikov?

I'm going for the smell. The fragrance of a woman, the smell of travel, the smells of childhood... The New Times analyzed the interethnic characteristics of the perception of pleasant and unpleasant aromas. He listened to a gentleman who said to another: “it’s funny how they smell the same, burnt through the perfume, all these dry, pretty brown-haired girls,” and, as often happens, vulgarity, related to no one knows what, tightly wrapped around the memory, feeding on his sadness.

Secrets of the success of the Russian team But still, in vain at the European Championships, the match for third place was canceled at one time - a sort of consolation finale. He was removed to please the giants - he caused the wrong emotions among the Germans, Italians, French and Dutch who were eliminated in the semi-finals. But ours with the Turks would have come just right ... To continue the "banquet" However, entering the top four is enough for us for now.

As you wish, there is something mystical in the price of oil. You are convinced of this every day, not only when its fall crushes the state (USSR in December 1991) or the ruble (in August 1998), but its growth leads to a doubling of GDP. Here is a very recent oil mysticism: Saudi Arabia declares the current oil prices a violation of the “fundamental foundations” of the market and is going to unilaterally increase oil supplies, contrary to OPEC policy.

Director Sergei Ovcharov swung at Chekhov Cherry sadism. "The Garden" by Sergei Ovcharov became the most talked about film of the 30th MIFF competition: it provoked accusations of mockery of Chekhov and admiration for the bold handling of the textbook text. One way or another, one of the brightest Russian directors of the 1980s-1990s was again in the spotlight The esteemed closet goggles saucers, opens its mouth and pulls out a drawer-nose.

Yuri Chudetsky - The New Times Secrets of the Tunguska phenomenon. One hundred years ago, on June 30, 1908, something happened in Eastern Siberia that went down in human history as the “Tunguska meteorite”. What was it?

The Yabloko party carried out Operation Successor. On a much reduced scale, the “Putin plan” was implemented, when the former leader formally leaves, while remaining a “national leader”, and continues to control his successor The permanent leader of Yabloko, Grigory Yavlinsky, was replaced as chairman of the party by Moscow City Duma deputy Sergei Mitrokhin. Yavlinsky announced his resignation only at the congress, and for most of the delegates this came as a complete surprise.

Bishops' Council approved the foundations of the teachings of the Russian Orthodox Church on human rights The Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church, one of the most powerful institutions in the country, has taken decisions that can have the most serious impact on the life of the Orthodox in Russia.

Completeness complex. Estonia has become a normal European state. Almost without post-Soviet complexes. What Russia still cannot understand, arranging actions such as granting visa-free entry and exit to non-citizens - holders of “gray passports”.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky turns 45 On June 26, Mikhail Khodorkovsky turned forty-five years old. This birthday, a symbolic peak of maturity, is celebrated by Khodorkovsky in prison, and his few supporters are celebrating in pickets demanding his freedom.

Question: what should a police squad do with a group of drunken and obviously overexcited citizens, heart-rendingly screaming at night, jumping along the roadway, pounding on the hoods of cars with their palms and paralyzing traffic? The answer is clear. But what should the same police squad do if this group of drunks in the f ... jumps along the roadway with a tricolor, and yells “Russia! Russia!"? Consider these citizens just drunk in the well ... or enroll in the patriotic part?