2015 explained to everyone who wanted what price would have to pay for the imaginary “revival of the empire” and how the authorities will respond to any attempts to protest Antimaydan in Moscow: flags instead of people, February 21, 2015 You will not even remember which of the years of the five -year plan we have triumphantly lived. Defining? Decisive? Or, as some hope, final? This is unlikely. Comrade Dryov would still like to suffer.

Russia-2015 is a country in which neither the president nor the citizens are interested in the state of affairs In those distant, almost fabulous times, when the president of Russia still allowed himself to disagree with his own parliament, people and press, it was customary in the press to somewhat feign sympathize with the Western Kremlinologists of stagnant times, forced to guess about the intricacies of the Soviet policy of “arranging leaders on the Mausoleum ".

Yabloko promises to enter in 2016 with the new chairman. Parliamentary parties, on the contrary, line up closer to the ONF and the Kremlin. That the opposition are ready to offer the voter - the New Times was versed Mikhail Kasyanov and Alexei Navalny expect to create the “Loud Faction in the State Duma”, Moscow, December 11, 2015 The opposition, without waiting for the New Year, began an election campaign at the State Duma-2016.

What is the structure, tactics and goals of the armed Syrian opposition, what kind of people are in it and how they live in the war - about this in the diaries of a journalist who has worked in the Middle East for more than a year This boy is called Ali, he is the son of a field commander of the Syrian opposition , Aleppo, Syria Having been involved in Syrian conflict in September 2015, which in 4 years took more than 300 thousand lives, Russia, military analysts believe, proceeded from the fact

The queen of the Russian economy is today called “uncertainty”. President Putin, despite the entire amount of his almost dictatorial powers, cannot influence either oil quotes or the ruble course. What are his options - the New Times sorted out The end of the year presented a very unpleasant surprise to the Russian economy. After the OPEC refusal to reduce production simultaneously with the same step of independent exporters, oil quotes went on a free fall.

On December 21, the court may change the measure of restraint to the former head of the Republic of Komi Vyacheslav Gaiser and transfer it from the Lefortovo pre -trial detention center under house arrest.

How can a country at a price of oil below $ 40 per barrel change Raising rates in the United States is another threat to oil prices, New York, December 16, 2015 In January 2015, the author of these lines wrote (see “The price of non -return” NT of January 19, 2015) that the price of oil $ 40 per barrel is a border beyond which the existing model of the Russian economy ceases to exist. The wick of the economic bomb, apparently, burns out before our eyes.

In December, in one of the Russian clubs of London, Zelman and Chichvarkin held an evening of questions and answers called "How to earn a billion and how to do it." The New Times, with the resolution of heroes, publishes an abbreviated version of their discussion on a given topic Mikhail Zelman and Evgeny Chichvarkin for more than one year were successful businessmen in Russia.