On March 16, it became known that Sergei Mironenko was removed from the post of director of the State Archives of the Russian Federation. Now he is only the scientific director of the archive Finally, what many of us had long expected and feared happened: the director of the State Archives, the famous scientist Sergei Mironenko, was dismissed by the writer and minister Vladimir Medinsky.

Britain is split into two nations. A third of the population - authors (from the English out - “out”), ardent supporters of the country's exit from the EU. Another third - Rimeyners (from the English Remain - “Stay”), categorically against.

How likely is the breakdown of the European Union and whether such a scenario responds to Russian interests - The New Times asked the experts Nadezhda Arbatova, Master of European Political Studies IMEMO RAS: Now the EU is going through difficult times, being under the influence of three crises at once: world economic, migration and Russian-Ukrainian.

“The police department is a maze from barriers, corridors and stairs. We go out into the yard. scary. Suddenly he leads us to the basement? I wonder how long I last under torture?

*“Chronicle of current events” - a typewritten human rights information ballot, distributed in Samizdat in 1968-1983 “It is amazing how unsuitable and inconsistently the Kadyrovites behave, frankly putting his boss to his laughing stock,” Ilya Yashin wrote on his Facebook Igor Kalyapin after the attack, Grozny, March 16, 2016 March 14, Monday The press secretary of the head of the Chechen Republic Alvi Karimov asked the Prosecutor General and the Investigative Committee to attract the party

In NT * No. 8 dated March 14, 2016, Dmitry Oreshkin's text "The Unbending Grandmother" was published, dedicated to the analysis of the actions of the Yabloko party and Grigory Yavlinsky in preparation for the 2016 Duma campaign. The party did not agree with the assessments expressed in the material. * Dear Dmitry Borisovich! I read the article "The Unbending Grandmother", published by you on March 14 in The New Times .

On March 16, the Grozny City hotel attacked the head of the committee to prevent torture by Igor Kalyapin. This is the third attack for a week related to the Chechen Republic. Earlier, a group of journalists and human rights activists was beaten on the border of Ingushetia and Chechnya, took the equipment, set fire to the bus in which they were driving.

On March 16, one of the founders of the human rights movement in the USSR, Alexander Yesenin-Volpin, died in Boston (USA). Everyone who has ever talked with Alexander Sergeevich Yesenin-Volpin will say that he was a very bright, kind, wonderful person. People versed in literature will call him a gifted poet. Mathematicians will confirm his achievements in mathematical logic. Philosophers will remember him as a deep and original thinker.

Reasoning about the imminent decay of united Europe became one of the skates of Russian experts and politicians. Someone even calls a specific date-2022, calculating some magical “segments of life” according to analogies with the history of the USSR. All this would be funny ... Will the EU break up? First of all, let's clarify what it should be understood as “decay”.

On March 15, the FSB opened a criminal case against “certain senior officials of the Ministry of Culture and a number of entrepreneurs” who are suspected of embezzling public funds allocated for restoration work Deputy Minister of Culture Grigory Pirumov is suspected of creating a criminal group.

By its behavior, Russia reminded the Swiss hired infantrymen who left their positions, saying to the French king: "There is no money - there are no Swiss." In the picture: “Battle of Pavia”, Bernart's tapestry van Orley (1531) . Photo: wikipedia.org The first rumors about the withdrawal of Russian troops from Syria began to seep two days before Vladimir Putin “stunned” all this news. On March 12, the New Inform Internet portal wrote "...

At the end of last week, the leaders of the European Union for the second time this month, with an interval of only 10 (!) Days gathered in Brussels to discuss the migration crisis with Turkey. This means only one thing: the previous meeting, contrary to the bravura statements of the chairman of the European Council Donald Tusk, did not lead to anything. Rather, she brought only on paper.