What unites Johann Sebastian Bach, Hector Berlioz, Franz Schubert, Giuseppe Verdi, Vincenzo Bellini, Daniel Francois Aubert, Giacomo Puccini, Gioacchino Rossini and Ferenc Lehar, who are different in style, era and origin? Inspiration? Expression? Sensuality? Together. And... delicious food Susanne Jaeger, wife of Johann Sebastian Bach, was the author of the 1750 Leipzig Cookbook. She was the first female chef to keep her name in history.

Sergei Pashin on Russian judicial reform People's Reform. The revival of the court as an organ of justice is the measure on which the government and the people can converge peacefully as partners. For the court as an instrument of reprisal is ultimately dangerous for both sides Justice originated outside the state. “The people come to me to ask judgment from God,” Moses said. The biblical strongman Samson was the judge.

In Ulaanbaatar there was a "cashmere revolution" On July 10, the Central Election Commission of Mongolia will announce the results of the elections to the Great People's Khural, the country's parliament.

Legislation. The Fifth State Duma, elected last December, went on vacation. However, few people noticed it. There is practically no Duma in the information field. Where did the Russian parliament disappear? The New Times found out Usually at the end of a session in the State Duma there is an emergency. On the eve of the summer holidays, the deputies were in a hurry to skip the stale legislative initiatives. So it was before. Now in the Duma - a complete calm.

Secrets of political longevity “How many times have I said: do not turn off foreign states without my instructions!” thundered Anatoly Chubais at a planning meeting at RAO UES. Sounds comical. But the scale of the figure is visible: something between the chairman of the world behind the scenes and the iron people's commissar. Only such a character could carry out several reforms in Russia at once There are different types of political longevity.

Report from the Tallberg Forum The tiny village of Tallberg in northern Sweden has been gathering annually for 28 years for intellectuals, businessmen, politicians, NGO representatives and public figures from all over the world.

Ninety years of the uprising of the Czechoslovak Corps How a small people got into a big story There are historical events and situations that are especially famously twisted in terms of geography. For example, in 1864, the Austrian Archduke Maximilian ends up in Mexico (!), where a few local monarchists declare him emperor. A civil war unfolds, as a result of which the Republicans take the unfortunate Maximilian prisoner and shoot him along with his two generals ...

Alexey Uchitel filmed his "Brokeback Mountain" An international film festival has opened in Karlovy Vary - the main (and usually successful) competitor of the MIFF. Russia in the main competition is represented by "Prisoner" by Alexei Uchitel about the Chechen war. He was ignored in Sochi at the Kinotavr, but may be appreciated here in Europe The action takes one hour and fifteen minutes. There are, in fact, three actors: two Russian escorts and one Chechen "language" (silent, however).

Hiddink in anticipation of a contract Red bottom - black top. Red top - black bottom. Guus Hiddink, the man who once struck the Russian football establishment with his appearance in red pants, is now on vacation in Korea: he decided to ride around the Asian places of his fame. And he plans to return to work in Russia on July 18.

The 'long list' of nominees for the Booker Prize has been unveiled. And the winner of the Booker Bookers (English) will be named on July 10th. He will most likely be Salman Rushdie The most interesting thing in the history of the Booker Prize in Russia was, as you look back with cold attention, its very history. Since the award is literary, it is summed up with poems - Arseny Tarkovsky, for example.

Sergei Aleksashenko — The New Times The Russian economy has lived a contradictory six months. On the one hand, the domestic financial system was not spared by cold breezes from the world market, on the other hand, the banking liquidity crisis did not break out. On the one hand, GDP continues to grow at a high pace, on the other hand, it is accompanied by a surge in inflation...

How Ingrid Betancourt Was Freed “We are from the army of Colombia! You are free!" These are the words Ingrid Betancourt will never forget. For six years, the former candidate for the presidency of Colombia and the wife of the French ambassador to that country was held hostage by militants of the radical leftist group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. On the 3rd of July, she and 14 other captives were released.

Dr. James Watson gave a lecture in Moscow Visit of Dr. Watson. Scientists are studying the contribution of genes to the formation of such mental illnesses as autism, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease. This, like transgenic bacteria that synthesize drugs, and the rapid diagnosis of infectious diseases, and the establishment of paternity, and much more, has become possible thanks to the development of molecular biology.

Isabelle Huppert - The New Times The Moscow House of Photography presented the exhibition "Isabelle Huppert: A Woman with Many Faces" at the Manege. The actress visited the exhibition and answered a few questions from The New Times I love all these photos and it's hard for me to pick just one of them. Each shows you as much as it hides. Each photo is a door to something secret, and therefore all of them are very dear to me.

“Chubais is to blame for everything” - this phrase of President Yeltsin forever determined the place of Anatoly Chubais in the post-Soviet history of Russia. This person, no matter how you treat him, in the view of many, is responsible for everything. Or almost everything. Hence the assessments: Chubais is either loved or hated just as passionately.