Readers - The New Times On the article by Ilya Barabanova Vertical to the ground No. 44 of December 7, 2009 Denis Shadrin, "Center for Civil Initiatives" It’s a pity, they wrote little about the Kirov region, in our 2005-2006. The government and the legislative assembly of the region took measures to cancel direct elections ... and quite successfully.

Son Aslan Maskhadov - The New Times Anzor Maskhadov: "Father did not want the Chechens to kill the Chechens." The son of Aslan Maskhadov, the chief of staff of the armed forces of unrecognized Ichkeria during the First Chechen War, the President of Chechnya - during the second, in an interview with The New Times spoke about what was and who was to blame Where were you when the first Chechen war began? I was then 24 years old, and in the early days I was next to my father.

Grozny Diary of a soldier who wants to forget everything This notebook was handed over to one of the New Times reporters in February 1995 in Grozny. She was found human rights activists in the mud of a bombed city. There is almost nothing in it about that terrible war and at the same time in it - all about the war.

The tragedy in Perm demonstrates a terrifying state of healthcare The tragedy in the Perm club "Lame Horse" claimed 148 lives, 81 people remain in hospitals. The governor of the region, the government, mayor of the city are ready to resign, but not to return people with resignations and landings. Fires, including in entertainment institutions, were, are and will be, and by no means not only in Russia.

Large-scale reshuffles began in the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN). This is the result of checking the circumstances of the death in the pre-trial detention center of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who meticulously recorded everything that happened to him in the Butyrskaya Prison pre-trial detention center (see Execution without a sentence ).

Current students know nothing about the war in the Caucasus "The Americans wanted to capture Chechnya to take possession of oil." The 11th grade history textbook on two Chechen campaigns is described on two pages. In textbooks of the 9th grade-less than one. The New Times interviewed 50 Moscow schoolchildren: what do they know about the war that claimed tens of thousands of lives and changed the course of development in the recent history of Russia?

The writer Zakhar Prilepin was at the first and second Chechen commander of the OMON branch, journalist Alexander Babchenko - sergeant of the motorized rifle regiment. They both know what blood is, buried friends and comrades, cursed the thieving staff and saw death - with the face of children, women, old people, young guys. But their view of this, still a living and bleeding past, is amazingly different.

CONTENT Resignation of the memory of Sergey Magnitsky "TV turned the culture into strawberries" Readers - The New Times Abandoned in hell The New Times found the surviving participants in the storm of Grozny Evgeny Levkovich "Chechens must admit their mistakes" Anzor Maskhadov - The New Times Zoya Svetova Notes from a meat grinder Grozny Diary of a soldier who wants to forget everything Zakhar Prilepin: "How can I serve - and I will not be able to?" Zakhar Prilepin Arkady Babchenko: "Chechnya is

The New Times found the surviving participants in the storm of Grozny 15 years ago, on December 11, 1994, President Yeltsin signed Decree 2169 “On measures to ensure the legality, law and order and public security in the territory of the Chechen Republic”.

Arkady Babchenko, in 1995-1997 sergeant of the 429th motorized rifle regiment named after the Kuban Cossacks, orders of Bogdan Khmelnitsky and Suvorov (Mozdok-7) of the United Group of Troops in Chechnya Fifteen years have passed since the beginning of the Chechen war. Today, guys could be fifteen years older. They would now be thirty -three. The age of Christ. But no longer The war does the same with society as the public execution: removes prohibitions.

Presidential passions in Moldova and Romania Bessarabian impasse. The Romanian leader Trajan Basescu with a minimum advantage won the second round of the presidential election and will remain in his post for a second term. In neighboring Moldova, this can only dream of this: another attempt to choose the head of state turned into a failure, extraordinary elections are waiting for the country.