Russia in search of self-identification Where am I?.. Russia is forever in search of self-identification and a guiding and guiding idea corresponding to its scale. Like that drunkard from the old joke, shouting: “Idea! Idea! Where am I?!” What was, what will be, how the heart will calm down - understood The New Times “The hallmark of our lives,” Zaiban said in a speech about the approaching second stage of psism, “is an unstoppable dynamic.

Economist Andrei Nechaev about how the recession of GDP gets along with growth "This is not growth, but a slowdown in the fall." The latest statistics regarding the economic situation of the country are able to enter into a stupor. According to the Ministry of Economic Development, Russia's GDP in August grew by 1.5%by July. And industrial production, according to Rosstat, decreased 1.8%over the same period.

United Russia continues to expand into universities Wreath for education. The beginning of the school year - new political scandals. The expansion of United Russia into higher education was watched by The New Times "Wreath of Russia" is going to twist in 2010, the head of the Department of Education of the Moscow Government Olga Larionova. Everything, however, is not as scary as it might seem: this name hides the project of anniversaries of the classics of Russian literature.

Russian teams claim to be knocked out of the Champions League CSKA goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev failed to rescue his team three times in the match against Wolfsburg The experience of misunderstanding. In the Champions League, only the second round is coming, but for the Russian teams it can be decisive in many respects - the start of the tournament CSKA with Rubin failed, synchronously getting 1:3 from the German Wolfsburg and Dynamo Kiev.

Khodorkovsky's lawyer Vadim Klyuvgant - The New Times On September 28, witnesses in the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev will begin to testify in the Khamovniki Court. It took the state prosecution almost half a year to present the so-called written evidence of the guilt of the defendants, that is, the materials of the criminal case.

Yale University Professor Immanuel Wallerstein on what the world will be like after the crisis "Capitalism is in a knockout." The G20 meeting in Pittsburgh once again raised the question of what the world will be like after the crisis. Immanuel Wallerstein, a world-famous sociologist and historian, senior researcher at Yale University, expressed his thoughts on this to The New Times. It is known that you are skeptical about the meetings of heads of state in the G20 format. Why?

View from Russia, USA and Poland How bizarrely history sometimes turns: exactly in the year of the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, Poland again found itself between a rock and a hard place - this time between the USA and Russia Barack Obama's speech at the session of the UN General Assembly left no doubt: the nuclear threat from Iran is forcing the United States to seek the support of Russia and China.

Readers - The New Times In an interview with Mikhail Kasyanov “Yeltsin himself agreed to not be free” No. 33 of September 21, 2009 richer Yeltsin made at least three mistakes: he did not liquidate the Communist Party, he did not arrange the second Nuremberg Trials and he did not carry out a lustration! Svoboda4russiav Eternal memory to Boris Yeltsin for what he did for Free Russia. Putin was not made by him - we ourselves created him with our anger towards dissent, fears and complexes.

Drama of ideas There are leaks from the Kremlin: the president is developing his own ideology. So that's great. The Lord, in His indescribable goodness, gives everyone a job on the shoulder. But no! The restless public buzzes with its brains: what will be the ideology - good or bad? Right or wrong? Brothers and sisters! What the fuck is the difference. As if comrades L.I. Brezhnev, Yu.V. Andropov, K.U.

Garry Kasparov wins a rapid chess match against Anatoly Karpov 9:3 - with this score, the 13th world champion Garry Kasparov won a rapid chess match against his old opponent - the 12th world champion Anatoly Karpov. So in Valencia, Spain, two great grandmasters celebrated the 25th anniversary of their first match for the chess crown. How it was and what will be - asked The New Times Garry Kasparov: "Intelligence can unite" First, with victory!

Scientists identify genes for memory loss Alone with darkness. Two teams of scientists from the UK and France have published the results of a large-scale study of 16,000 patients with Alzheimer's disease, an incurable disease that attacks the brain, robs people of their memory and ultimately renders them helpless. Scientists have identified three new genes, errors in which lead to the development of the disease.

Star Wars. The tenth anniversary festival of French films is starting, which is organized annually by the French Embassy and the main propagandist of French cinema, the Unifrance association. This time it will be held from 28 to 30 September in Novosibirsk and from 1 to 4 October in Moscow.

“We created Putin ourselves” Readers - The New Times "Intelligence can unite a nation" Garry Kasparov — The New Times "The next match is at the Louvre" Anatoly Karpov — The New Times The unprincipled Kremlin What is replacing "sovereign democracy" wreath for education United Russia continues to expand into universities Piontkovsky VS Pavlovsky There is everything except the national idea Dmitry Oreshkin Drama of ideas A matter of technology State Duma sends lawyers to the past “We would like to

Secret paths of the President of Honduras Latin American detective. “No one will kick me out of here anymore,” three months after being expelled from the country and two unsuccessful attempts to return to his homeland, the President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, unexpectedly appeared in the very center of the country’s capital, Tegucigalpa, in the building of the Brazilian embassy.

A quarter of a century ago, the first match of Karpov -Kasparov for a chess crown took place 25 years ago, on September 9, 1984, in Moscow a match for a chess crown began between the current world champion Anatoly Karpov and the contender - the young Baku chess player Harry Kasparov - he was then 21 years old. This duel entered not only in the history of chess: it lasted more than 5 months (48 parties were played - a unique figure for world championships) and ended with a scandal.