Ukraine celebrates the anniversary of Euromaidan. The New Times on how it all began For the largest protest, the largest “Orange Revolution” - in support of the European Course of Ukraine - last weekend, according to various estimates, from 120 to 200 thousand people.

The President of Rosneft Igor Sechin and the Saudi king Abdullah, it seems, is polar strategic tasks Photo: Alexander Miridonov/Kommersant, AFP On November 27, the OPEC summit starts in Vienna, and two days before, the 25th, the oil conference of countries that are not part of the OPEC will host, which will meet the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin and the Foreign Minister Raphael Rafael Ramirez The Venezuelan elite, whose political survival also directly depends on oil prices, makes desperate

The results of the second “All -Russian Civil Forum” in Moscow: NPO representatives propose to simplify the procedure for registering election candidates, develop civil control mechanisms and use the potential of non -governmental dialogue in the field of international policy Liberal forums have not collected such a motley public for a long time: in the Cosmos Hotel on Saturday, November 23, not only the best experts in civilian society, human rights activists, historians, journalists, social

The ways of the war are inaccessible: the Siberian soldier from Siberia Andrei Balobanov somehow was captured in Ukraine, in November ended up in the Russian military units in Transnistria and is now under investigation for desertion. The New Times tried to figure out this mysterious story Andrei Balobanov (in the photo) during the passage of military service in the Samara region.

On November 19, Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky said at a meeting with journalists that the refusal of the state to finance the Artdocfest film festival is connected with the political views of Vitaly Mansky, the president of the festival They held on for a long time. They sat in their cage and looked around, impatiently waiting for the moment when the leader of the pack would say “face” and then, finally, it would be possible. Until then, you have to hold on. They held on.

Participants in the action against the decision of the Ukrainian Government on the suspension of the integration of Ukraine and the European Union on Independence Square in Kyiv on November 27, 2013 Ukrainian turn Ukraine. Kyiv. Maidan -2? Maidan 2.0: Protest with reservations # Self -isolation of Ukraine

On Sunday, a three-day conference of the Russian historical, educational and human rights society “Memorial” ended. The main issue discussed at the conference was the changes in the charter of the organization in accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Justice.

On November 17, 1st Deputy Minister of Education Natalia Tretyak announced: by March 1, 2015, new school history textbooks will be prepared, developed in accordance with a single historical and cultural standard About five years ago I asked my fourth-year students of the Literary Institute: “Are any of you familiar with such a phrase, with a defiantly proud intonation: “We did not graduate from universities!”? The forest of hands has risen, gentlemen, the forest of hands!