Lawyer Boris Kuznetsov - The New Times The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia unexpectedly withdrew the request for the absentee arrest of lawyer Boris Kuznetsov, accused of disclosing state secrets. For almost two years, an investigation was underway, Kuznetsov was forced to escape from the country, received political asylum in the USA.

Philosopher who justified freedom Prophet in someone else's fatherland. On June 6, a hundred years of the birth of one of the largest thinkers of the 20th century Isaia Berlin - the theoretician of liberalism and the defender of freedom, which he was born in the country is born, marks He was a native of the Russian Empire, but left it, lying in ruins, even at a young age and forever, and the same can be said about liberalism without a special stretch.

The formula of time The formula of time. On June 3, an exhibition of the poster “Artist and Time” opens in the Tretyakov Gallery. It was composed of exhibits from the Tretyakov Gallery funds and the collection of the section of the poster of the Union of Russian Artists-180 works written from 1918 to 2009.

Chekhovsky festival took the roll for entertainment The horseman in a wedding outfit jumps on a horse. A waterfall is cast off from the dome. Akrobat actor firmly stands on a racing horse and plays on the violin ... Thus opened the VIII International Theater Festival named after Chekhov in Moscow - the performance of the French horse theater "Zingaro" under the leadership of Bartabas. The spectacular brilliant. But with the theater, whatever one may say, it has not much in common.

Basketball superglub on the verge of bankruptcy Bomzh from Dynamo. The Russian Basketball Super League completed the season with a limp-at the very finish starred the Vladivostok "Spartak-Primorye" from the distance. But the elite league will somehow survive this loss, but there is more sadly: the bankrupt team can be one of the superclubs-the Moscow Dynamo Moscow If anyone could have suggested this last fall, he would be called “Dynamo”-nanavian.

How the educational system reacts to changes in the labor market 67% of high school students believe that school knowledge is not enough for entering a university. Almost 70% of university graduates, leaving the walls of Alma Mater, work not in their specialty. Waiting for good news - asked The New Times The quality of education can be evaluated in different ways.

The 215th anniversary of Pyotr Yakovlevich Chaadaev is dedicated to June 7 marks the 215th anniversary of the birth of P.Ya. Chaadaeva, a very relevant thinker for us. “I prefer to scour my homeland, prefer to upset it, I prefer to humiliate it - just not to deceive it.” So in 1836 the crusade of the lonely paladin Peter Yakovlevich Chaadaev began against Jesus, vanity, chauvinism, as well as autocracy, Orthodoxy and nationality.

Where to go to the applicant? Choice strategy. Almost 100% of school graduates plan to enter higher educational institutions. This has never happened in the history of Russia. Applicants and their parents live in illusions, experts say. What awaits future students (p. 6–9)? What will they have to go through in order to get a student ticket (p. 10)? How does the crisis rules the labor market in different regions of Russia (p. 12)? And how not to miss the choice of the profession (p.

The Russian budget is missing 3 trillion Found a hole. The longer the crisis lasts, the more difficult it is for the authorities to pretend that nothing terrible happens to the country's budget. It happens, and even how: a hole has opened in 30%there, and the government clearly does not know how to close it up.

In the Russian regions - the year of unemployed youth Deficiency 2009: Work. The Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Andrei Fursenko presented the public with a preliminary report on the implementation of the government “Action Plan ...” on the employment of graduates of educational institutions approved by the government on January 30.

"United Russia" takes control of universities For the student party. “Cadres decide everything,” the ideologists of the party in power repeated after their father and teacher and ... went to the people. More precisely, to the leading Russian universities, which United Russia decided to take under its control. There is a result - concluded The New Times Evgeny Ivanov (name changed) entered the Faculty of World Politics (FMP) of Moscow State University in 2005.

Kuwait in Europe Kuwait in Europe. The whole world groans from the crisis, from the most developed states to the weakest. Is there a corner on the globe somewhere on the globe, which has not suffered too much from financial disasters? The New Times found out what is and not so far - called Norway Economists have a popular theory of “resource curse”: the country's rich gifts are slowly developing, exploiting a gratuitous resource, and are not prone to democracy.

Constitutional amendments from Zakhar Prilepin For the first time in Russia, the court decision confirmed the fact of organizing a political investigation The Nizhny Novgorod District Court rejected the complaint of human rights activist Sergei Shimovolos against the UBOP and the Center for Combating Extremism. The human rights activist argued that the observation established behind him was illegal and violating the constitutional right to the inviolability of private life.

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North Korea blackmail the world with an atomic bomb Explosive wave. Until recently, nuclear weapons were considered a deterrence weapon. But it seems that North Korea, which on May 25 has made the next underground tests, is ready to use it for its intended purpose. As one of the poorest countries in the world, she was able to get weapons of mass destruction - the New Times found out It is clear that the non -proliferation regime bursts at the seams.