Details of the sale of the French newspaper No. 1 The global media market is excited by the news from Paris: the newspaper Mond, the flagship of the French high -quality press, changed the owner. The reason is debts in the amount of about € 100 million. Until now, the controlling stake has belonged to the publication team, providing it with formal independence.

Well, here it is, the paranoia has reached its peak. Today, the State Duma is likely to adopt in the first reading amendments to the law on rallies, which will ban any actions and flash mobs similar to the blue buckets protest. On the eve of the profile committee on public organizations approved the bill, which means that the Duma majority in the person of "United Russia" will have to support it. It is very sad that totalitarian laws of this kind are accepted and generally discussed.

How the Russian special services sewed the case From Yezhov to Putin. Russian special services are again allowed to sew cases according to the patterns of Stalin's "iron people's commissar" Five years ago, a court verdict in the case of Igor Sutyagin entered into force.

The news about the upcoming exchange of the “spy” Sutyagin is a good illustration of the thesis about the inscrutable ways of the Lord. Who would have thought that from the stupid Lubyanka agents in the USA, from this long-failed semi-pornographic radio operator Kat and her comrades in laundering the dough, a good deed would suddenly happen at the exit! It's fun. And it's sad, that's what.

Rating of the most important moviegoers from Yuri Gladilshchikov Films are usually lists of films. But in 2010, many important and interesting things managed to happen around the movie. The New Times has compiled a ranking of the most significant cinema intences of half a year, as well as success, disappointments, absurdities, scandals and clamps in Kinomir Events and absurdities are placed in increasing, from less serious. Of course, everyone has their own ideas about significance.

On July 8, Igor Sutyagin may be released after 11 years in prison. He will become one of the Russian prisoners who will be exchanged for spies detained in the United States.

As the Arkhangelsk court refused too Igor Sutyan Conditional humanism. The ISAKOYOR DISTRICATION Court of the city of Arkhangelsk refused the parole Igor Sutyan, sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment for espionage. Neither his approximate behavior in the colony, nor the recent book of stories, nor a government telegram from the Commissioner for Human Rights Vladimir Lukin, helped.

The murder of Natalia Estemirova is trying to dump on militants On July 15, it will turn exactly a year as they killed Natalia Estemirov - a famous human rights activist, an employee of the Grozny branch of the Memorial human rights center. According to The New Times, the investigation is actively developing a version of the militant involvement in this crime, who died during a special operation eight months ago. Who stood behind him? The charge has not yet been charged.

"Exchanging Sutyagin, whose case is fabricated, is an element of the Cold War" Vladimir Bukovsky, one of the most famous Soviet dissidents, served 11 years in prisons, labor camps and mental hospitals . In December 1976, he was exchanged for the leader of the Communist Party of Chile, Luis Corvalan. The New Times asked Bukovsky, now living in London, to comment on the story of the exchange of Igor Sutyagin for one of the illegal immigrants living in the United States.

Since mid -June, the state program of educational lending has launched in Russia. Is it worth students to take loans to study and how beneficial to banks are - The New Times found out Olesya has just graduated from the undergraduate of the sociological faculty of the Higher School of Economics. In 2006, when she graduated from school, she failed to enter a budget place, but she could claim paid.

Indian customs stronger than the constitution Bolivia became the world's first state to legitimize lynching. The law signed by the President of Evo Morales endowed the state status of "Indian justice", which has since ancient times adopted by the indigenous population of the country. True, it does not do without torture and bodily punishment, which directly violates the main articles of the Bolivian constitution. But this did not bother the left president.

The amount of expenses for the ex-governor in 2010 will be reduced by 4 million rubles Vladimir Chub decided not to receive funds from the regional budget for his life maintenance, he issued a state pension for long service and will not receive other payments, Vedomosti reports. The size of the ex-governor's pension is 75% of the monthly allowance of the current head of the region, says Vladimir Bessonov, head of the Communist Party faction in the Legislative Assembly.

"Despite the fact that he signed everything, he did not consider himself guilty, he does not count"