In March 2015, the market of cars fell by 42.5 % compared to March last year. It was worse only in the crisis of 2009, when sales decreased by 58 %. What is happening - The New Times found out from the founder of the Rolf group of companies (the largest car seller in Russia), State Duma deputy Sergei Petrov increase The numbers are stunned: sales of Honda fell by almost 11 times - compared to last March, Suzuki - by 80 %, Peugeot - by 79 %, Opel - by 78 %, etc. What is happening?

On April 9, a round table was held in Moscow, dedicated to the fate of the jury in Russia. The fate is unenviable On December 5, 2014, during a meeting with human rights activists, President Putin, reacting to the replica of the head of the Moscow Helsinki group Lyudmila Alekseeva about the mistrust of the people for a professional court, gave an instruction to prepare a proposal to expand the sphere of jury trial.

increase Chronicle of a replica sentence without justification why the ruble is strengthened and how the jury will finally lose independence in Russian ships Current events of the chronicle of current events.

April 6, Monday The court decided to block the Children-404 group. The decision was made by the Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg. Thus, soon a group of support for LGBT teenage on the VKontakte social network will be inaccessible in the Russian Federation. Earlier, the community administrator Elena Klimova was fined 50 thousand rubles under Part 2 of Article 6.21 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation (“Propaganda of non -traditional sexual relations among minors”).

An amazing mystery of modern Russia: traditions are formed and preserved not at all there and not those who are allocated for the preservation of traditions. Big budget money is allocated Andrei Konchalovsky and Nikita Mikhalkov at the anniversary concert in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the writer S.

The series “Once in Rostov”, in the center of which-the execution of the demonstrations of workers in Novocherkassk in the early 1960s*-could not get on television for three and a half years. How and why the film nevertheless went on the air of Channel One-producer Sergei Zhigunov told The New Times You, as an actor, are known to the public from the film “Gardemarina, go ahead!”, The series “My Beautiful Nanny”. As a producer, you shoot an entertaining movie.

April 10, the official dollar rate fell to 51.07 rubles. Back in early February, the dollar cost 70 rubles. In just two months, the Russian currency has strengthened more than a third, including 1.2 times in the last three weeks Three questions arise by themselves. Are the reasons for the accomplished? Are we not standing on the verge of an economic miracle? And the most sincere: do we have a strong ruble for a long time?

The “highlight” of the next summit of America - the forum of the leaders of the states of the Western Hemisphere on April 10-11 in Panama - was the meeting of Barack Obama and Raul Castro awaited by everyone. After 50 years of mutual enmity, the relations of the United States and Cuba enter the new phase.

On April 9, the Moscow City Court extended for a month, until May 16, the arrest of Alexander Kolchenko. According to the FSB, he is a participant in the anti -Russian underground in the Crimea, and together with three more detained residents of the peninsula is accused of terrorism.