Governor Mikhail Men — The New Times “You can't be a little pregnant. Either we build a vertical, or we don’t.” How regional leaders feel about castling in tandem, how they are conducting the Duma campaign, and what difficulties they expect locally from a new wave of crisis. The New Times begins publishing a series of interviews with Russian governors. The head of the Ivanovo region Mikhail Men was the first to answer the questions.

The New Times investigation Ideal scheme. The city authorities of Kazan intend to purchase about 700 new buses in preparation for the Universiade-2013, which will be held in the Tatar capital. Seems like a noble gesture. If not for one small but: four years ago, the Kazan mayor's office literally imposed 782 Chinese buses on local private carriers for 1.5 billion rubles.

Omsk vs Deripaska 15,000 residents of Omsk signed a petition demanding to freeze the construction of a silicon plant in the city, 6,500 united at protest sites on social networks, and the streets of the city were decorated with graffiti "Silicon will kill us." The Center for Combating Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs became interested in environmentalists, and the authorities are convincing residents that there is nothing dangerous in silicon.

Who dismissed the Minister of Finance The victim of the castling? The clash of Alexei Kudrin with Dmitry Medvedev only to third -party observers could seem like a sensation: the conflict was brewing for a long time. Details found out The New Times “They arranged a circus that not citizens of this country live in Russia, but a herd of rams. Maybe we are like that?

Ilyinka without Kudrin. President Dmitry Medvedev was enough literally three hours to resign Alexei Kudrin, who directed the Ministry of Finance for 11 years and 4 months. The acting minister was appointed Anton Siluanov, and Kudrin's deputy deputy chairman of the government Igor Shuvalov was transferred to the Deputy Prime Minister of Kudrin.

Former Vice President of Yukos Vasily Aleksanyan died on the evening of October 3 at home Aleksanyan spent three years in a pre-trial detention center, he was diagnosed with AIDS, tuberculosis, and cancer. In January 2009 he was released on bail, in the summer of 2010 the criminal case against him was dropped. Svetlana Bakhmina: Almost 15 years ago we were told that we would have a new boss. The beginning of a new career, the beginning of a new Yukos.

“And Olvier struck King Kudrin (Coudryn) and hit him in the very brain. Many proud Saracens were then killed there, ”an unknown author wrote at the end of the 14th century. Well, hit in the very brain, and then what? According to an old legend about Sir Ferumbras, the commander of Charlemagne, Olivier de Vienne, was captured in that battle. Karl had to help out a colleague. So Vladimir Putin rescued Dmitry Medvedev.