Thus begins a draft letter to the President of the Country of an Entrepreneur, whom the Internet audience brought in first place in the ranking of “recognition of business leaders.”* In this online poll, Chichvarkin went around the convict of Khodorkovsky and the computer genius of Kaspersky and the owner of Chelsea Abramovich. However, the Investigators of the SCP under the Prosecutor General believe that the place of Chichvarkin is in prison.

Regional features of asphalt laying Federal pit. The New Times scanned the situation from Novosibirsk to Kaliningrad and was convinced: each region is unhappy in the roads in its own way Dmitrovsky bridge over the Ob - a narrow place of the Novosibirsk transport network Galym Sainov rarely appears in the office before lunch. And not at all because he has nothing to do there-he is actually the commercial director of Art Sins Sinema Distribution, who controls the cinemas in seven Siberian cities.

CONTENT Identified by the passport Roads that rob us Why are highways in Russia built slowly, badly and expensive Dmitry Dokuchaev, Dmitry Krylov Difficulty to Europe From Moscow to Brest with truckers - The New Times report Nikita Aronov Federal pit Regional features of asphalt laying Olga Dunaeva, Anton Zdobnov, Victoria Makarenko, Olga Novosad, Yana Yanushkevich Hyvei democracy Western experience in construction and theft Alexey Slavinov, Astrite Dacco, Olla Latinen A glass on the hood Boris

Why are highways in Russia built slowly, badly and expensive In the last rating of the quality of roads compiled by the World Economic Forum, Russia takes 118th place out of 133. The position is simply humiliating for the state, which is part of the “big eight”. After all, roads in the modern world are the most important indicator of the country's development. And for our power - the largest in the territory on the globe - the state of the highways is doubly important.

Gentlemen fishing rods. At the exhibition of fishing gear, crowds of madmen wandered at the VVC. How else can you name people who are able to look at some fly with a gilded belly for hours and can pay several hundred dollars for a brilliant (literally) device for fishing for ordinary fish. Among the stands with millions of incomprehensible things, the chief artist of The New Times, Mikhail Reshetko, has long been noticed in the commitment to this expensive hobby How to choose a fishing rod?

Best Picture: "The Hurt Locker" by Kathryn Bigellow This morning in Los Angeles, the 82nd Academy Awards came to an end. The main winner was the military drama "The Hurt Locker", which tells about the service of American sappers in Iraq. The director of the film, Katherine Bigellow, won the best director, and the film "The Hurt Locker" won the best film of the year.

The Russian state will buy four large helicopter carriers "Mistral" from France The amount of the contract is estimated at € 1.5 billion. If the transaction that Presidents Medvedev and Sarkozy agreed in Paris will take place, then this will become a sensation: Russia will first purchase weapons, and besides, the country that is part of NATO. However, this transaction has a lot of opponents, above all, in France itself.

The real life of the "independent journalist" Victor Louis The charm of twilight being. This man was called Vitaly Evgenievich Levin. But he became informed like Victor Louis. Two leading channels of the country at once made films about him. NTV - documentary "Louis King".

March 12 writer Grigory Gorin - playwright, screenwriter, prose writer, satirist - could have turned 70 years old. But it will not come true: he left very early, at 60. He started as a physician, almost like Vasily Aksenov. Cheerful, harmless physician, kaveenshchik, regular Aesop satire on the programs "Around the Laughter". Tycho was engaged in subversive humorous activities on the 16th page of Litgazeta, in the "12 chairs" section, and in "Youth" on behalf of Galka Galkina.

Thus begins a draft letter to the President of the Country of an Entrepreneur, whom the Internet audience brought in first place in the ranking of “recognition of business leaders.”* In this online poll, Chichvarkin went around the convict of Khodorkovsky and the computer genius of Kaspersky and the owner of Chelsea Abramovich. However, the Investigators of the SCP under the Prosecutor General believe that the place of Chichvarkin is in prison.

Russia expects the verdict of the Strasbourg Court in the Yukos case Pierce Gardner, representative of the company Yukos in the ECHR The case of one hundred billions. The Strasbourg court, with the third attempt, held a hearing in the case of the Yukos Oil Company against Russia. The price of the issue is $ 98 billion.

On March 4, during a special operation in the Ingush village of Ekazhevo, the FSB special forces was liquidated by one of the ideologists of the Caucasian militants, Alexander Tikhomirov, known as Said Buryat. The militant gained wide fame after the terrorist attack near the building of the Military Military District Nazran, who carried away the lives of 25 people. The media also appeared versions about his possible involvement in the undermining of the Nevsky Express in November 2009.

70 percent of the "road" money in Russia ends up in the pockets of corrupt officials and construction company leaders close to them. Corruption in the road sector is monstrous. Its scheme is always the same. A formal tender is announced, lured firms participate in it, they get a contract at inflated prices, and then unfasten 30-50% of the contract amount to those who organized the tender.

From Moscow to Brest with truckers - The New Times report From Moscow to Brest - on domestic maps, this road is indicated by number 1: The main connecting thread with Europe. On M1 day and night, cars heading to Poland, Germany, Austria, France and further, to the Pyrenee peninsula.

Western experience in construction and theft Hyvei democracy. Each domestic motorist, who had to make international trips on his car, knows: the fact that the homeland has ended can not be determined by the border post, but by a completely different quality of the highway. Native bumps are magically replaced by even and smooth highway. Why do Europeans manage in the field of road construction to achieve that we can’t do it?