Scrap against the word. The Russian journalists are opened. Only in recent months, the three have been killed and almost twenty wounded. None of these crimes are disclosed. The New Times found out - why? For more than one year, the International Committee for the Protection of Journalists has drawn up the rating of countries in which the journalists are not protected, and those who kill or cripple are evading responsibility. It includes 14 countries, Russia takes 9th place.

Experts divided the president and prime minister Headmaker. Recently, the Kremlin and the White House are increasingly diverging in assessments of the economic situation in the country and measures that need to be undertaken. They look differently at whether the economy has reached the bottom, whether a new wave of banking crisis awaits us and whether the VAT should be reduced. Behind the difference in positions are the contradictions of expert teams.

What role does things, cars, mansions in the life of high officials play The modest charm of bureaucracy. Government old -timers recall: “At the reception of the Prime Minister, the president of one of the Caucasian republics asks for money. He almost cries, describing the difficult situation of his subjects. The deputy prime minister present at the meeting, notes the clock strewn with diamonds on the petition of the petitioner, which cost at least $ 200 thousand.

Politician Boris Nadezhdin - The New Times About mold. The decree “On the submission by persons replacing public posts of the Russian Federation and persons replacing public posts of public service and positions in local governments, information on income and property” was signed by President Boris Yeltsin on May 15, 1997. He was never canceled, but nothing reminded of the existence of his general public. Now an unusual noise has risen around the bureaucratic declarations.

Devomers of money. The debugged parliamentary voting machine unexpectedly failed to fail on the bill on ... payment terminals. That is, the same iron boxes in which we give money to pay for services. What interests these boxes did not share - The New Times sorted out 29-year-old Muscovite Sergei suddenly discovered how often it happens that the money on his mobile phone ended. It was in the area of ​​the Sokolniki park in Moscow.

Everything should be fine in the "big" person “That's why you want to be a general? Because, it will happen, you’ll go somewhere-the couriers and adjutants will jump forward: "Horses!" And there they will not give anyone at the stations, everything is waiting: all these titular, captains, city officials, and you do not blow yourself in the mustache.

Than the first persons of the country are rich in "Homeland" SPA is calling. Declarations on the income of high -ranking officials, prime minister, his deputies, ministers - a source of invaluable information about what and how the servants of the people live. A portrait of an official in the surroundings of his personal addictions tried to draw The New Times To start with the fact that the estate of our highest state husbands consists of citizens with a modest but strong income.

Does Dmitry Medvedev have an affair with democracy? Presidential drops. The word "thaw" was replaced in a political vocabulary with the word "defrosting". This happened after President Dmitry Medvedev gave an interview with Novaya Gazeta, met with experts of the Institute of Modern Development, and then with members of the Human Rights Council.

... And so, therefore, someone from St. Petersburg invited the characters of the Gogol "auditor" to publish a declaration of income. The whim of European trends has risen into the head! The owner is a master, only what income can be, well, for example, the city man? Yuri our Mikhailovich Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky? Judge Lyapkin-Tyapkin, who was guarding their kids' justice ... The specialist of Shpekin, responsible for per lustration ... Mr. Khlopov from the Ministry of Education, Mr.

The inhabitant of garbage from the city of Kemerovo can become a star of world directing. Leonid Konovalov shot a film about his life and sent a Cannes festival to the organizing committee. If his picture takes place as a qualifying tour, Monsieur Konovalov will be invited to Cannes. And if the picture receives at least some kind of prize, we will have every reason to say that Russia got up from the knees: even the homeless are filming a world-class movie.

Yuri Lyubimov - The New Times The legendary theater on Taganka is 45 years old. On April 23, on the birthday of Taganka, the founder and artistic director of the theater Yuri Lyubimov, who will turn 92 in September, will present the public to the premiere of the play “Tales” based on the works of Wilde, Andersen and Dickens.

I was not going to watch Bortko's film about Taras Bulba. For a long time I have been quietly, into a pillow, upset because of the entry of a talented person who staged "Heart of a Dog" and "Master and Margarita" into the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. It was clear: now do not expect good.

The owner of the club deleted the next coach Fedune system. Immediately after the crushing loss in the cup game with Dynamo - 0: 3 - the head coach of the Spartakovtsev Dane Michael Laudrupe by the decision of the board of directors of the club was dismissed For Spartak, this situation seems to be ordinary - in five years the club has been changing the fifth coach. But this has never happened so soon - at the very start of the season.

The nomenclature was, is and will eat Sovereign servants. The Russian administrative “class” inherits two traditions - the official of the imperial and Soviet nomenclature. Both are not related to what is called Civil Service - Civil Service in the West A view of national hunting in Rus' - shooting at bureaucrats. We did not have a king, Secretary General or President who would not scold officials, attributing them all conceivable sins.

The first show in Moscow by Pavel Bardin “Russia 88” was held: the picture was presented as part of the “spring euphoria” mini-festival in the Roland cinema. The film, which mobilized the army of influential opponents, was the first in the post -Soviet time (except for the “4” Ilya Khrzhanovsky) claimed the dissident laurels and the “longitude” fate.