On December 26, the chairman of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Lebedev announced the need to mitigate the verdict in the “second case of Yukos” due to violations committed by the Moscow City Court when considering the appeal In the motivating part of Lebedev’s resolution, fragments from which Interfax published, the chairman of the Armed Forces came to the conclusion that the Presidium of the Moscow City Court did not pay attention to changes in the Criminal Code.

All this week, one phrase has been spinning in the language. I don’t remember who said it, I don’t remember where it was read: “Mercy is an infectious thing!” It seems that quite recently, last Thursday, Putin announced that he was pardoning Khodorkovsky, literally the day before that, the deputies adopted an amnesty, the very one that we all have already dubbed "short".

Those who remain in Moscow on New Year's holidays, The New Times offers a small poster: what is worth watching in the cinema, theater and exhibition halls People, animals and hobbits On New Year's Eve, distributors release films on a large screen, which can assemble the maximum box office. The New Times represents the vacation hits Frame from the movie "Hobbit: Mustard Smauga" Let us leave the sequels of domestic comedies “Christmas tree-3” and “Love in the Bolshoi-3” behind the brackets.

On December 26, the chairman of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Lebedev announced the need to mitigate the verdict in the “second case of“ Yukos ”due to violations of the Mosgorsud when considering the appeal In the motivating part of Lebedev’s resolution, fragments from which Interfax published, the chairman of the Armed Forces came to the conclusion that the Presidium of the Moscow City Court did not pay attention to changes in the Criminal Code.

*The beginning of the cycle "History lessons from Valeria Novodvorskaya" - in No. 41 of December 9, 2013 Valeria Novodvorskaya continues Russian history lessons* Lesson No. 2 In the beginning was a miracle. The Slavic tradition, the most ancient, the deepest - is an ardent faith in miracles. No one knows and never knew where to look for Lukomorye, and then the same thing will be with a hail of kitet. But the Slavs knew how to believe in it. Ivan Bilibin.

What depends on the country's image About why the image of the Russian state, despite tens of millions of dollars invested in PR, leaves much to be desired-The New Times asked Angus Roxboro, who served in the Ketchum PR-consulting Kremlin for several years In 2013, just a year after the Premiere, the new edition of your book “Iron Putin: the View from the West” was published (The Strongman; Vladimir Putin and the Struggle for Russia): you added a large chapter and wrote a new conclusion.

Journalist, TV presenter Elena Chekalova published a new book about delicious and healthy foods with the draft name "Eat!" What should a person of the 21st century should be, how to put the “Bolsheviks” and “Mensheviks” at one table, about kitchen fashion and what she feeds her husband Leonid Parfyonov, the author told The New Times Elena Chekalova and Leonid Parfyonov. 2013 This is all in the photographs, did you cook it yourself? Everything is absolutely.

On December 25, the chairman of the Supreme Court of Russia Vyacheslav Lebedev demanded that Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his partner Platon Lebedev resume the production in the first criminal case against the former head of the Yukos oil company. This was on the air of the Radio station "Echo of Moscow" said the head of the press service of the Supreme Court Pavel Odintsov. He noted that the restoration of proceedings is associated with the decision of the European Court of Human Rights.

For those who stay in Moscow for the New Year holidays, The New Times offers a small poster: what is worth watching in cinema, theater and exhibition halls Shot from the film "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" A scene from the play "A Streetcar Named Desire" at the Kolyada Theater Mikhail Grobman. "Russian sky", 2008 People, animals and hobbits On New Year's Eve, distributors release films on the big screen that can collect the maximum box office.

Photo report The New Times For more than 20 years, Patch Adams, who has become the prototype of the hero Robin Williams in the film “Healer Adams”, spreads in hospitals, orphanages and nursing houses all over the world a universal medicine - laughter. Having once decided that no one should spend a single day on sadness, Dr. Adams founded his movement and has since been engaged in charity, putting on a clown costume.

A year ago, Mikhail Khodorkovsky was released. Then The New Times was the first to interview him. Interview: Evgenia Albats, editor -in -chief The New Times Producer Vera Krichevskaya, operator Daniil Salkhov