An unprecedented process in the "Sailor Silence" After a series of December amnesties, many started talking about the humanization of the Russian judicial system.

Under the pretext of fighting terrorism, the Duma cuts the rights and freedoms of voters The spring session of the State Duma began with new prohibitions - this time under the pretext of fighting terrorism. What other rights and freedoms deputies will deprive their voters - the New Times found out Deputies are ready to introduce new prohibitions without unnecessary discussions.

The New Times opens a new section that writer Viktor Erofeev will lead. His first essay - about the memoirs of the widow of an outstanding Russian philosopher, which confirm: our story is constantly spinning around its "rotten axis" Nikolai Berdyaev with his wife Lydia (left) and Adelaida Gertsyk-Zhukovskaya. 1946 *Lev Shestov (1866–1938)-philosopher-explorationist.

Oleg Budnitsky - About the truth and myths of the Great Patriotic War Why is the Great Patriotic War - “our everything”, can it be “spiritual cross” and how to talk about it at school - The New Times asked the historian Oleg Budnitsky Oleg Vitalievich Budnitsky (b. 1954) - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Director of the International Center for History and Sociology of the Second World War and its consequences to the Higher School of Economics, Member of the European Academy of Sciences.

01/13–17/2014 The New Times continues to follow the fate of a man who has been diagnosed with a fatal diagnosis* * Continued. Beginning at Nos. , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43-44 for 2012, Nos 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , . 37 13 , 14-15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 22 , 20 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , , 33 29 , 36-37 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 34 , 35 , , 21 19 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43-44 for 2013 The transplantation was finally carried out: it happened on January 15th.

The first deputy chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation - that it went wrong with the Russian economy, who is to blame for this, why such high salaries from officials and why he told everyone about his wealth Last week at the Gaidar forum-2014, Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev said the following phrase: “The world will demonstrate growth rates of more than 3.5 %, and we, at best, 2.5 %.” And this, judging by the estimates of experts, is still quite optimistic

The Secret Love of the President of France and the Corsican Mafia The President of France, his secret love and the Corsican mafia - The New Times sorted out the most high -profile international scandal of January Francois Hollande and Valerie Trierweiler (taken in July 2013 at the funeral of ex-Prime Minister Pierre Morois). On the right - actress Julie Gaye Lovers, mistresses, passions and treason ...

The New Times: a short -term “thaw” or a fundamental change of course? Russia entered the New Year against the backdrop of the merciful impulses of power surprising many merciful impulses. The pardoned Mikhail Khodorkovsky, amnestied by Pussy Riot, ecologists from Greenpeace and eight “swamp prisoners”. Why would all this? Is it a short -term “thaw” or about the fundamental change of course? Former director of the rural recreation center Ilya Farber (left) is met by the son of Peter.

Make the status of the Commissioner for Human Rights the subject of manipulations immorally and dangerous Human rights activists, authors of a well -known appeal to the President of the Russian Federation propose to change the law on the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Russian Federation. Let me briefly speak out about the situation with the elections of the 4th Ombudsman; The situation with which the appeal to Mr. Putin can give, I would say, a scandalous character.

On January 14, at a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, an agreement was reached to provide Budapest with a $14 billion loan. It seems that on New Year's Eve, Vladimir Putin decided to put on a Santa Claus costume and give loans from the master's shoulder to almost half the world.

2014 by the Presidential Decree was declared the Year of Culture. What awaits us? Road marking in the form of Olympic rings in Sochi During 2013, officials and deputies preoccupied with the fall of morality intensively introduced into the mass consciousness the wording familiar from the Soviet era on the “patriotic” (almost partisanship) of art and the integral right of the state to influence the content of cultural products.

Kyiv, Maidan: Night from 19 to 20 On January 19, after the completion of the People’s Veche on the Maidan of Nebulia in Kyiv, in which, according to various estimates, it took from 100 to 500 thousand people, a group of protesters of about 500 people attacked the police cordons guarding the Cabinet of Ministers on the street. Grushevsky. The police launched vodtetes and tear gas.

On January 19, after the completion of the People’s Veche on the Maidan of Nezalevniy in Kyiv, in which, according to various estimates, it took from 15 to 500 thousand people, a group of protesters in about 500 people attacked the police cordons guarding the Cabinet of Ministers on the street. Grushevsky. The police launched vodtetes and tear gas. The investigative administration of the Kyiv Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a criminal case under an article on riots.

On January 17, President Barack Obama announced the ban on the special services to monitor the leaders of the US friendly US, states. Barack Obama heard and supported the protests of the Americans against illegal surveillance of citizens. Washington, January 17, a demonstration against permissiveness for a big brother The ban on electronic surveillance and wiretapping, according to sources in the White House, can affect about a dozen countries.

On January 14, three weeks before the start of the Olympics in Sochi and two weeks after the explosions in Volgograd, a state of emergency was actually introduced in the Krasnodar Territory. Everyone is checked. Caucasians - especially I have been going to Krasnodar for the fifth year already, very often, once a month: by car, by train, by bus, even by plane. Now I was going there by train - so already in the car, among the passengers, there were policemen in civilian clothes.