On April 18, the Laureates of the Golden Mask will be announced. The New Times talks about performances that can count on the main theater prize of the country this year The current Golden Mask takes place in an atmosphere of the last siege: it seems that we say goodbye to the era of free, unquestioned creativity.

The private company Mars One has been collecting money for the first flight of a person to Mars for four years - according to the plan in 2035, the population of the Martian colony should reach 44 people. However, at the end of March, one of the participants in the Mars One project gave an interview in which he subjected the principles of preparing a future expedition to destroying criticism. Will the colonization of the Red Planet remain only a dream?

What is behind the conflict of the Ukrainian state and Ukrainian oligarchs With the light hand of President Poroshenko, who took to establish “unified rules for all citizens”, a new term appeared in the Ukrainian political discourse - “deoligarchization”. In recent weeks, the term has managed to become one of the main ones. “If any of the oligarchs tries to work against the state, the state will find a way how to stop it,” Poroshenko said.

About the modern Middle Ages, about the victory of Stalinism over modernism and what history teaches, The New Times talked with historian Andrei Yurganov Doctor of Historical Sciences Andrey Yurganov Yurganov Andrey Lvovich - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the RSUSU. The author of works on the history of the Russian Middle Ages, books “Categories of Russian Medieval Culture” (1998, 2009); “Kill the demon.

Supporters of the opposition on Tuesday, April 7, celebrate a sad date - 40 days since the death of Boris Nemtsov in the center of Moscow. In the morning, activists began to bring flowers to the Big Moskvoretsky Bridge, where a politician was killed late in the evening of February 27. The direct video broadcast of shares in memory of Nemtsov is conducted by ["Open Russia"] (https://openrussia.org/).

40 days from the day of the death of Boris Nemtsov: flowers, “minute of untreating” and a telemarathon Supporters of the opposition on Tuesday, April 7, celebrate a sad date - 40 days since the death of Boris Nemtsov in the center of Moscow. In the morning, activists began to bring flowers to the Big Moskvoretsky Bridge, where a politician was killed late in the evening of February 27.

The former mayor of New York may become the head of London Boris Johnson and Michael Bloomberg, *London, 2008 *The main news of the Easter weekend in London is Michael Bloomberg, one of the richest people of the planet, the owner of Bloomberg L. P., who was three times mayor of New York, is now thinking about becoming the mayor of London.