Hot Estonian scandal Window to Europe. Estonian authorities intend to sharply tighten the conditions for issuing a residence permit in the republic. Such measures are the result of a scandal that broke out in December last year, when it turned out that some Estonian politicians traded a residence permit for citizens of the CIS countries, in particular Russia.

The law will protect debtors from arbitrariness Collector in law. In early March, the government will submit to the State Duma a bill “On Collection Activities in the Russian Federation”. This is not the first attempt to put in the legal framework the activities of modern “knockers” of debts. In the meantime, collectors find out relations with debtors in a legal vacuum. And it is still unknown who in this confrontation is more often the injured party.

"Socrates were born in disputes and Socrates were dying." The deputy chairman of the Rusnano Board is convinced that people of different worldviews can interact with each other In Soviet times, when even the works of the classics were not easy to get, my friends and I were fond of the search for unknown authors-suddenly something interesting, not recognized by the guardians of socialist realism, will break through.

Fear. "Event" on the stage of the Moscow Art Theater is a story about how chilling horror penetrates into the house, behind the walls of which the nation rejoices All the heroes of the performance live in a double life, finding in this its only meaning. Vera - Natasha Shvets, Trochykin - Sergey Chonishvili, Revshin - Igor Vernik (right) Vladimir Nabokov wrote the play “Event” in 1938 for the Paris Emigrant Theater.

Film director Sergey Solovyov - The New Times "We have a film very often - just a reason to master the budget." In Khanty-Mansiysk, the X festival of the film “The Spirit of Fire” was held. President of the film director Sergei Solovyov told The New Times about Turgenev and Viardot, Fanny Ardan and Pierre Richar, Oleg Yankovsky and Yulia Snigir In 2003, Sergey Solovyov, Alexander Abdulov and Maria Zvereva in 2003 came up to bring modern young cinema to Khanty-Mansiysk.

Exhibition "Dirty Genius" Great and terrible. At the Royal Academy of Arts in London, an exhibition of the most famous of modern British artists - David Hokni opened. The New Times looked at the canvases of the master David Hokni against the backdrop of his "tall trees" David Hokni is not suitable for the title of classic.

In the propaganda publication “God forbid!”, With a reprint on the AiF website and the Komsomolskaya Pravda website, Pasquilus appeared on The New Times and editor -in -chief Evgeny Albats, with the signature of A. Sigida. Not a word of truth. But at the end of the note - a touching appeal to “Vladimir Vladimirovich”: “... I want, Vladimir Vladimirovich, ask you for forgiveness.

Distracting maneuver. Obviously: the authorities will raise taxes. Multi-billion-dollar promises that Putin was born during the presidential campaign, expenses for the military-industrial complex and salaries of people in uniform of all stripes plus the Olympics and so on-someone will have to pay for all this. Who and how much - the options considered The New Times On the last day of winter, President Dmitry Medvedev still held a meeting on economic issues in the Kremlin.