Russian business entered the new year with a new "gift" - a more than two-fold increase in the rate of insurance premiums (earlier - UST). True, the duumvirs gave indulgence to the "small" - from those who are not engaged in trade, are not involved in securities and real estate. For everyone else, the 34 percent rate is a disaster. People will begin to quietly merge, at best they will force them to work more for the same money, at worst, they will reduce the staff by 30 percent.

Ural schoolboy tries to meet the product basket Double bottom basket. A 17-year-old resident of Yekaterinburg Vitaly Nikishin is an experiment: he decided to find out whether it was possible to live on a minimum product. The New Times thought about the meaning of the experience “The training has recently ended,” said Vitaly The New Times on the 17th day of the experiment. - Fatigue rolls twice as soon as before. Now I went on the bus and realized that I could hardly keep the bag in my hand.

How the Georgian-Swigoosetian conflict flared up After shelling , the death of the empire after shelling. In January 1991, he moved to the acute stage of the conflict between the South Ossetia and Georgia, which led to the local “parade of sovereignty”, armed clashes, human victims and the actual “divorce” of the neighboring peoples revived the national liberation trends in the republics of the Soviet Union, and the struggle for freedom from the Union Center began.

Photo exhibitions for the 80th anniversary of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin Boris Yeltsin on the tank in front of the government house. On August 19, 1991 , two anniversaries. The Moscow House of photography opens in the capital of the exhibitions dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the two largest Russian politicians at the end of the 20th century. One dedicated to the first and only president of the USSR is called “Gorbachev. PresTroika.

Business votes. The net outflow of capital from Russia in 2010 amounted to $ 38.3 billion, more than one and a half times higher than the November forecasts of the Central Bank. The technology of flight of money from the country was studied by The New Times The outflow of capital from the country lasts the third year in a row. The largest amounts of funds were withdrawn from Russia to crisis 2008-2009.

The New Times Video In Moscow and the Moscow Region today, the day of mourning has been announced in memory of the victims of the attack at the Domodedovo Airport, where 35 people were killed. This decision was made by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and Governor of the Moscow Region Boris Gromov, ITAR-TASS reports . Russian television channels and radio stations will refuse entertainment programs and advertising on the air. Instead, programs about the tragedy in Domodedovo will be aired.

Ilya Grigorievich Ehrenburg, whose 120th birthday we celebrate on January 27, was called Ilya for good reason. Ilya is a seer, a wise, bilious intellectual. Young Ilyusha, still at the gymnasium, at the age of 14, became entangled in a revolutionary circle led by high school student Kolya Bukharin. Trouble began, and in the end, in 1908, he had to leave for France. He hangs out in Parisian cafes, writes poetry, meets Modigliani, Picasso, Apollinaire.

Residents of St. Petersburg fell into the ice trap The icicle is terrible. Peter turned into an Ice theater of the absurd. Since the beginning of winter, dozens of people suffered from the roofs of the vessels falling from the roofs and the uncleaned snow and ice, and six of them were children. After the death of 6-year-old Vanya Zavyalov, Governor Valentina Matvienko invited Petersburgians not to escalate hysteria and sit at home.

New Times Video In Moscow and the Moscow Region today, the day of mourning has been announced in memory of the victims of the attack at the Domodedovo Airport, where 35 people were killed. This decision was made by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and Governor of the Moscow Region Boris Gromov, ITAR-TASS reports . Russian television channels and radio stations will refuse entertainment programs and advertising on the air. Instead, programs about the tragedy in Domodedovo will be aired.

Russian experts polemicize with skeptics in Poland On April 10, the President of Poland Lech Kachinsky and his wife Maria, famous Polish politicians, the highest military command, religious and public figures were killed in a plane crash on April 10 ... Total - 88 passengers and 8 crew members.