Cairo. February 11, 2011 Tahrir Square. Just announced: Hosni Mubarak, finally, after 30 years of reign, left From Tahrir to Bolotnaya. Exactly a year ago, a resident of the Tunisian town of Sidi-Buzid Mohammed Buazizi, tortured by poverty and arbitrariness of the police, committed an act of public self-immolation at the city hall.

Twenty years of television company Irene and Dmitry Lesnevsky The name Ren. Twenty years ago, on December 24, 1991, an independent television company was born, the name of which reflected the name of its founder - Irene Lesnevskaya. In 1997, the manufacturing company became a full -fledged television channel, which lasted until 2005: then the authorities cleaned the television space, and the owners forced the owners to sell the channel of the national media group close to Vladimir Putin.

It was an amazing year. There are so many fingers of one hand for the life of one generation. It began “Arab spring” (p. 26), and ends with the Moscow December. The protester is a symbol of 2011.

The "Arab Spring" ended in death, the footage of which went around the world - this is the footage of bleeding Muammar Gaddafi. African autumn has begun. The happy ending of the fairy tale about the struggle for freedom, which the world media has been telling since mid-February, turned out to be spoiled at the wrong time by an extra character - a corpse put on public display in the Misurata mosque, which they then guessed to bury according to customs.

3 years probation - such a sentence was passed on December 26 by the Tagansky District Court to businesswoman Natalya Gulevich. The New Times covered the case at length in # 41 , 39 , 37 , 36 , 36 , 34 , 20 . After the verdict was announced, Gulevich was released in the courtroom. But the entrepreneur will have to compensate Nomos-Bank for more than 590 million rubles and pay a fine of one million rubles to the state.

The survey was conducted by the Levada Center by order of the Organizing Committee of the rally “For Home Elections” on December 24 on Sakharov Avenue among 791 people, the error of the study data is not more than 4.8%.

Demography against nostalgia. The younger the Russians, the less they regret the collapse of the USSR Click to increase According to the Public Opinion of the Foundation (FOM), in 1992, 69% of respondents regretted the death of the country. Nevertheless, every third participant in the study did not experience such feelings. The peak of nostalgia, according to Thomas, fell on the last year of the presidency of Boris Yeltsin-1999.

On December 25, 1991, the USSR did not officially become: the Soviet flag was launched over the Kremlin. How was it - recalled The New Times "WILL NOT ARE ARE?" - asked Yeltsin: by "there" he had in mind the Kremlin. "Are you crazy?" - Gorbachev answered him * * According to the memoirs of the press secretary of the President of the USSR and the author of the book "Gorbachev" Andrei Grachev, who was present during the conversation. The conversation was on a closed connection. .

From 70 to 100 thousand people gathered the second rally "For Fair Elections". The main event of the year is the awakening of Russian society. Report from the square - from correspondents of The New Times Komsomolskaya station,” a mechanical voice announced, and the car in which the correspondent of The New Times was traveling was empty. All the passengers got out of the other cars as well, heading for the escalators. The city went to the rally.

1991. Chronicle of the collapse of January 11–13. Tanks and armored personnel carriers were introduced into the center of Vilnius, an attempt to capture the television center was made. 13 people from among the townspeople who came to protect the television center were killed. January 14. In Moscow, a rally of democratic forces was held in support of Lithuania (according to various information, from 100 thousand to 500 thousand people gathered). January 23–25. Cash reform.

CONTENT Moscow, Sakharov Avenue Evgenia Albats, Ilya Barabanov, Olga Beshley, Anatoly Ermolin, Zoya Svetova The death of the empire Farewell to the flag on December 25, 1991 did not become the Soviet Union Georgy Ilyichev, Yegor Mostovschikov Chronicle of Disales Andrei Martynov Demography against nostalgia George Ilyichev Mir after the USSR was not built by Fedor Lukyanov citizen and poet Andrei Vasiliev - Evgenia Albats new word for the letter “and” Putin’s economic program Dmitry Dokuchaev,

December 25, 1991 did not become the Soviet Union The death of the empire. Exactly twenty years ago, at the end of December 1991, a huge state - the USSR, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, disappeared from the world map. On December 25, in the evening, in the dark, a red flag fluttered on the flagpole was launched: it was replaced by a Russian tricolor (p. 10).

About sorrows and benefits of sincerity SHère Madame, At the end of last week, Vaclav Gavel passed away. Of course, you know about it. But you hardly know that Gavel was my close friend. I knew him for more than twenty years and did not dull the soul in him. So his death is a severe personal loss for me. A person at all times know, Madame, he was not just a wonderful person, he was a unique person. These are rare, very rarely, in a hundred years, maybe ten, most likely, even less.

In the early 90s, many new television companies - 2X2, REN, ATV, VID, TV6, and then RTR and NTV - came out of the same corridors, from the same Ostankino overcoat. They were created by people who felt freedom, enterprising, energetic, and they used to feel cramped in the Gosteleradio system. The reality of that time, above all the freedom and unregulation of private entrepreneurship, made it possible to register companies and create their own business.

Kim third freshness. On December 28, Kim Jong Ira, who died at the 70th year of his life in his armored train, or in his residence invisible to “enemy” radar and satellites, is buried in Pyongyang. What to expect from the change of power in the most closed country in the world - the New Times found out The picture is familiar to these days: DPRK citizens cry through the faded sun of the nation according to the same data, Kim Jong Ir died on December 16, on others-the 17th.