Vladimir Sorokin: "target" - a film about the impossibility of curbing your desires On Ren-Film, the work on the picture of Alexander Zeldovich “Michens” according to the script of Vladimir Sorokin ended. The writer told The New Times about what is the “guide of the oprichnik”, as with the help of Chinese migrant workers to build a wall around Russia and which of his heroes he would like to meet “Target” is a film about the impossibility of curbing your desires.

Who and how fights for power in Dagestan Interdoveness. Dagestan has been living without the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for a month, and by the end of the year the Kremlin will have to decide who to put the president of the republic. The region is torn by the struggle of clans, in which it is difficult to survive. They shoot and kill almost every day.

Family portrait on the backdrop of jucca-renewal. North Korea: Step forward, two back. The global media outlets circled the sensation: Kim Jong Il finally made a historical decision on the question of the throne of the throne-the successor of the all-conquering commander, as they say, will be Kim Jung Un, his third son. What is actually happening in this reserve of Stalinism - learned The New Times The question immediately arises: where did the information come from?

What will the return to the "gold standard" will lead The Russian authorities are seriously concerned about how to stop the collapse of the ruble (the rate fell from 24 to 33 rubles per dollar), which is observed over the past four months. One of the recipes seriously discussed in government offices is the introduction of the Golden Standard in Russia.

Wimbledon is already over for Russian fans Wimbledon tournament, by all rules, should end on the weekend. But for Russian fans, it ended last Thursday, when a kind of Russia-USA match was lost by us 0:2. Someone played - the first four women's rackets of the world, crosswise: Dinara Safina (1st place in the world ranking) against Venus Williams (3rd) and Serena Williams (2nd) against Elena Dementieva (4th) . True, two full-fledged semi-finals did not work out.

How the rural parish and its abbot-discident live The church can recover only through repentance, Father George Edelstein is sure. To repent, having forever parted with the Soviet past and experience in cooperation with special services. The New Times visited one of the main in -church oppositionists in his small Kostroma parish The farther from Kostroma, the more people in the cold bus. At each new station, one or two old women come in and silently go further.

Monday January 19, 2009 for many will forever remain in the black frame. On this day, it became known: 20-year-old Anton Stradymov, an activist of the banned party of the National Bolsheviks, and in the very center of Moscow, on the Prechistenka, the lawyer Stanislav Markelov and the Novaya Gazeta correspondent, Anastasia Baburova, were scored to death. Markelov was 34, Nastya recently turned 25 Anton Slavimov was killed on Krasny Kazanets Street near the Vykhino metro station.

What are the consequences of a military coup in Honduras “Barbarian politics returned to our hemisphere” - this is how the military coup in Honduras and what followed him, Argentina President Christina Kirschner described. The ambassadors of ten Latin American states, as well as all countries of the European Union, have been revoked from the country. The military coup was condemned at emergency meetings of the UN General Assembly and the organization of American states.

According to sociologists, the peak of the people's trust in power has passed Historians will study 2008 as a turning point, say the sociologists of the Levada Center. The viewer society abruptly loses confidence in the future In the spring, it seemed that the post -Soviet political regime was quite developed, was accepted by the overwhelming majority of the population and there were no special changes in the near future - and then these same changes came.

Ingushetia after an assassination attempt on Yunus-Bek Evkurov Wound to the republic. Even if not completely, but those who organized an attempt on Yunus-Bek Evkurov achieved their own: the Ingushetia barely began to recover again. What threatens the region and the country with a new aggravation - The New Times was looking for an answer directly at the place of recent events In Nazran, the police are not particularly visible.

Igor Jurgens - The New Times Is there life in the "upper layers of the atmosphere"? The crisis requires a quick reaction from the country's leadership to momentary challenges. However, it seems that power is “outside the network of network.” How to deal with the crisis when the feedback system is not established?

Georgian Defense Minister David Sikharulidze: Russia is building up a military presence in Georgia Military anxiety. Tbilisi is afraid of the repetition of last year's August conflict with Russia. What are the grounds - The New Times asked the Minister of Defense of Georgia David Sikharulidze The sixth round of safety negotiations in the Caucasus, ending in Geneva on July 2, did not bring any results.

Viktor Shenderovich: Presnensky court refused deputy to Abeltsev Yehu remained satisfied . The Presnensky court of Moscow refused the deputy to Abeltsev. Writer, and until recently the defendant Shenderovich - about the latest impressions from the zoological street On the finish line, I went half a corps ahead of the deputy: the expert of the Center for Forensic Examination under the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation Andrei Anatolyevich Smirnov did not find a crime in my text.

Nuclear tests at the Totsky training ground through eyewitnesses Apocalypse rehearsal. On September 14, 1954, at a Totsky training ground during military exercises, an atomic bomb with a capacity of 40 kilotons in TNT equivalent was blown up. She almost twice superior in its destructive force each of those bombs that the Americans in August 1945 dropped into Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Speech by the President of the United States "We gathered on this day because we chose hope instead of fear." On January 20, on the steps of the Capitol Barack Hussein Obama, the 44th US president, the inaugural speech made that more than a billion people on the planet and almost 2 million in Washington looked and listened. This was the speech of the country and the world.