The Russian economy was already experiencing a fierce crisis - it was 10 years ago, in 1998. We have experience in anti -crisis management. Can it be useful today? In August, The New Times (No. 33, 2008) devoted a number of materials to the decade of the 1998 default.

Crisis shook business travel As a result of the financial crisis, the tourist market was at risk. Demand for a number of directions has already fallen and will fall further. Which of the tour operators will be able to survive the crisis and whether travel lovers will win from the probable redistribution of the market - the New Times found out The tourist market froze in anticipation: citizens are afraid to purchase tours in advance, and for this reason they cannot plan anything.

The paradoxes of parliamentary democracy The elite and the largest media corporations are agitating for one candidate, the people want another. Romania split a few days before the day of voting in the parliamentary elections.

Lev Dodin - The New Times In Moscow, the tour of the St. Petersburg MDT - the Theater of Europe ended. The world famous theater brought old performances, such as “Brothers and Sisters” and “Demons”, and set up recently - “Long Journey on the Night” and “Warsaw Melody”.

Irina Khakamada - The New Times The third path. “After the 2004 presidential campaign, I realized that I could do everything that I could,” says Irina Khakamada, one of the most striking Politicar Mocrates of the 90s, and now-a wife, mother, writer, radio host and co-author of the Khakama clothing line. Why are famous politicians go into private life - asked The New Times Have you completely left politics? Yes. Why?

A long -term epic associated with the irresistible desire of the state to take control of the production of alcohol in the country, enters the new phase. The decree on the creation of the Unified Federal Office for the Control of the Alcohol industry will be signed. The First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov on November 12 publicly approved the idea and instructed the relevant ministries to urgently prepare the draft decree and submit it to the government.

Ingeborg Dapkunaite - The New Times On November 27, the new film by Alexei Balabanov “Morphiy”, shot based on the cycle of stories by Mikhail Bulgakov, “Notes of the Young Doctor” is released. The script of the picture was painted by Sergei Bodrov Jr., and Leonid Bichevin (known for his work in the previous tape of Balabanov’s “Cargo 200”) played the main role.

The process in the case of the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya began with a scandal. Initially, the judge Evgeny Zubov announced the open process closed. The press was removed from the first meeting with the relatives of the defendants. And then thunder struck. Returning home, one of the jury heard on the radio a message that the court was declared closed allegedly because he and his colleagues were scared of the press.

Oh, these 90s! No matter how they were branded, no matter how they rejected them, and they do not allow themselves to forget - and that’s it. Each has its own account by the 90s. They will go down in history not by their curses, real and imaginary, but by the fact that they began to revolution. For lovers of bright colors, I can add that it was the largest “orange revolution”, if we reason in today's language. These were the years of a big dream, a big jerk and considerable disappointments.

How can you not believe in determinism, in the task of events? In the days when those who remember - remembered Galina Vasilievna Starovoitov, who was killed in St. Petersburg, in the entrance, during the election campaign 10 years ago, and the customers of her murder were never found - in Moscow, almost day a day, the process of killing Anna Politkovskaya began, whose death customers were not found either.

"The war is not only where they shoot." On November 25, the presentation of the National Literary Prize "Big Book -2008" will be held. The recently released novel about Chechnya “Asan” by the writer Vladimir Makanin is one of the main contenders for receiving a reward.

Victor Shenderovich argues with Leonid Radzikhovsky As for scrap and incorrect gene pool. In old Soviet times, a joke about two citizens standing in shit was very popular.

Where now the defendants of the case is Litvinenko “Riot: Litvinenko’s case” - the Moscow premiere of this documentary, a year ago shown in Cannes, happened on the eve of the second anniversary of one of the noisy murders of the decade.

Is it possible to cooperate with authoritarian power? What gives a policy limited by red flags? Is it moral to be moral principles for the sake of “low benefits”? And is such activity effective? The leader of the United Civil Front Harry Kasparov and the head of the youth programs of the former ATP, who supported the idea of ​​the right Kremlin project, Anatoly Ermolin, argued about this at The New Times. Now the liberals have two different positions in relation to power.

Andrey Plakhov - about the new film by Alexei Balabanov Aggression in the context of contemporary art. The second volume of the book “Directors of the present” by Andrei Plakhov was published - “Radicals and Minimalists”. The author of the book explains The New Times, why, of all Russian directors, only Alexei Balabanov turned out to be a radical I wrote the book “Directors of the present”, trying to keep in mind the world context of today's directors - those artists who make modern cinema.