About our Lera - Yuri Skubko, member of the Democratic Union party Starting work in the "Democratic Union", we were, like the majority of the Moscow intelligentsia, critical of the existing communist totalitarian regime and quite pro-Western. There was also an “iron curtain” in place, information came only from Soviet propaganda, and we categorically did not accept it.

Alexander Pumpyansky, former editor -in -chief of the magazine "New Time" - about our lera Leroy and I were familiar with about 10 years. Every week, on Monday, she came to the editor and wrote her texts by hand. Being a creative person, for whom a world of material circumstances, some life was completely absent, she never was late and did not delay the texts. I admired that she had no improvised means at all: books, records.

Speaking with State Duma deputies in Yalta, Vladimir Putin did not rule out the possibility of Russia withdrawing from the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), although he added that this issue was not on the agenda From Putin's point of view, the ECHR does not regulate legal relations and does not protect any issues, but simply performs some kind of political function.

About our LER - Valery Lyubimtseva, member of the Party "Democratic Union" My apartment on Onega became a place where one of the days of the Constituent Congress passed. While the DS had no money to rent an apartment under the headquarters, I had meetings and interviews for the new party members. Lera was a very disciplined person, on any debate she did not allow herself to switch to swearing or raising her voice. But once I saw how she cried. She was just kicked out of work by the librarian.

- reports the special corr of The New Times from the scene At about 21:20-it is already completely dark here-past my hotel, located literally in a clean field, near Kamensk-Shakhtinsky (Rostov region), a column of armored vehicles passed: several dozen BMPs, military vehicles, military trucks pulling artillery.

The New Times correspondent found him in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky Photo: Sergey Khazov, The New Times The humanitarian convoy with almost three hundred white KAMAZs who disappeared tonight, the special correspondent of The New Times at 15:45 found near the city of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov region. About 25 km from the border with the Lugansk region of Ukraine, which is controlled by separatists.

About our LER - Evgeny Frumkin, member of the Party "Democratic Union" The rallies in the early 90s were not easy to organize. Our most important concern then is how to deliver Valery Ilyinichn to the beginning of the action. There was a whole group that dealt with security and conspiracy issues. This group decided in which apartment Valery Ilyinichna should be the day before the rally (it was impossible to leave it at home).

In the Zamoskvoretsky court, a hearing began on the merits of the “case of Yves Rocher” against politician Alexei Navalny and his brother Oleg “Deja Wu” - this expression has repeatedly sounded on Thursday in the courtroom.

About Valeria Novodvorskaya — Lyubov Tsukanova, journalist, deputy editor-in-chief of Novoye Vremya magazine from 1998 to 2006 and The New Times magazine from 2008 to 2014 Brilliant publicists were published in Novoye Vremya, from there Novodvorskaya got the highest rating of the text - "written artistically." The next most frequent compliment to the author: “Tasty, nutritious.

About our Lera-Sergey Khazov-Cassia, special correspondent The New Times Valery Ilyinichna told how in 1991 she sat in Lefortovo, there was no connection with the outside world what was happening in the country - she did not know, the jailers wanted to let them out, but only if they signed the paper that they would not take any actions against the Soviet regime.

The birthday of the Russian millionaire on Capri shocked the islanders, the price of the holiday is 2 million euros The Russian millionaire and owner of Transneft Service C Dmitry Arzhanov (Forbes estimates his state at $ 800 million), he called a commotion for Capri.

The widely advertised “historical” and “fateful” speech of Vladimir Putin to the State Duma deputies and federal ministers on August 14 in Yalta - they even said that the president could announce the exit of the Russian Federation from the jurisdiction of international courts - in reality turned out to be a ten -minute entrance word The performance began 3.5 hours later than the planned time: Putin entered the hall of the Mriya sanatorium for about two in the afternoon.