Transfer iron curtain After success at Euro 2008, Russian fans had an explanatory fear: but now the national team in Europe will now be pulled out. And there were even prerequisites for that - by the names of Arshavin, Zhirkov, Akinfeev. But things did not go further than words until recently At first, the movement went in the opposite direction: our only “European” Ivan Saenko from the German “Nuremberg” moved to Spartak.

So the damned August is over. For Russia, August was always either fatal or disappointing. And this is clearly visible either the finger of God, or at least a malicious hint of providence. August appeared on the calendar thanks to the end of the “Yeltsin” period in ancient Rome - the consular Republic of Julia Caesar, who did not abuse his enormous power, suffered the Senate and did not take their rights and freedoms from the Romans.

Experts - about who benefits the war Who benefits from a sharp exacerbation of relations with the West? Who is interested in twisting the nuts inside the country? These questions are answered by The New Times Alexander Auzan, President of the Institute of the National Project "Public Treat": "This is beneficial only to security forces" In Russia, this is beneficial to groups who do not need modernization.

In Moscow, an exhibition was held with the speaking name "Boys", represented by a new movement of young Russian artists GOP-Art. The purpose of the movement is to explore the gopot from the point of view of contemporary art, and modern art to show the eyes of the gopota. Real boys Each of us is familiar with gopniks since childhood. Street Shpan, closely connected with the criminal world, borrowed from the last concept of the zone.

The monetary authorities have decided on how they are going to deal with the main economic misfortune of this year - high inflation. After a long discussion, a decision was made on the transition to inflation targeting, which is from now on in the official document of the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Russia. The New Times tried to figure out what the consequences of this decision could be Recently, a lot has been said about inflation and methods of combating it.

Report from the Belomorsky Biological Station To get to the White Sea Bioster (BBS) of the Moscow State University, you need to take a ticket to the Murmansk fast train to Kandalaksha, and then reach the Primorsky village of the source with an electric train. From there, the boat for about an hour goes to the strait to the station. For those who are here for the first time, the impression is not from the weak.

The Venice Film Festival opened This year, the Russian public is rooting for Alexei German Jr., whose film “Paper Soldier” will be shown in the competition program on Tuesday, September 2. By the way, the main role in the picture is played by the Georgian Vienna Merab Ninidze, which gives the story of a doctor who prepared the first Soviet cosmonauts, an additional political acuity, not provided for by the script.

Chita is an unfortunate city. Journalists, if they live long enough, see, as a rule, many cities. Not only the cities are happy and rich, but also the collapsed cities, where half of the inhabitants are dead. The poor cities where the population lives in dugouts and in the evenings feeds not all children, but those children who came for dinner. Cities where the commandant hour. The cities where the epidemic began ...

The world in South Ossetia can be considered restored only if you believe in official sources. If you look with your own eyes and ask Georgian refugees - a different picture August 22 Gia, along with the few in the village of Karaleti, saw the inhabitants how the endless column of Russian military equipment drove past their burned houses on the road to Tskhinvali.

The Russian military from space is not to see anything American space survey did not confirm the thesis about the “destruction” of Tskhinvali. What could our military satellites see for, if they could? The New Times tried to answer this question The postulate of “complete destruction” Tskhinvali served as one of the excuses of the Russian military intervention.

What will happen to former unrecognized republics The recognition by Russia of the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia inevitably entails the question: what, in fact, to make further with these former unrecognized republics? You can congratulate South Ossetia and Abkhazia on the acquisition of long -awaited independence. They could not achieve it either under Stalin, or with Khrushchev, or with Brezhnev. And they found - at Saakashvili and Medvedev - Putin.

Sarah Obama - The New Times The Democratic Party of the United States, which once authorized the segregation of the Black American Minority, elected African American Barack Obama, the son of a white American from Kansas and Kenyts, as his candidate for the presidency of the United States. This is the end of one story and the beginning of another - we are not yet known.

Ecuadoric recipes for combating bribeam In the ranking of the most corrupt countries of the world. About how they are trying to deal with corruption in Ecuador, The New Times asked the Minister of Social Development of Ecuador Natalia According to the last report by Transparency International, Ecuador occupies the 154th (out of 180) rating. Is the situation changing somehow? We must always understand how the ratings are compiled.

Schools are shining with a new "Brief course of history" Revanschist historiography. A symbolic event that fits into today's Russian political context was scandalous information about a new history textbook in which Stalin's repressions are proposed to be considered as a rational action aimed at modernizing the country and strengthening the political system before the threat of World War II.

Member of the uprising in the concentration camp by Sobibor Alexei Vaitsen - The New Times In May 1942, the train brought you and other prisoners to Sobibor. Remember this trip and day of arrival? We all knew that we were going to the destruction camp. They knew that they were being taken to kill, that when we arrive, our life would end. Four days brought us, then driven to the camp platform, separated the sick and old from the young and took it off ...