The liberation of ancient Palmyra showed that the strategic initiative passed to the government forces of Bashar al -Assad. Does this mean an imminent victory over the Islamic State (IG)* and what the future of Syria could be - The New Times sorted out Syrian soldiers in Palmyra, March 26, 2016 .

March 30 The head of the Rosselkhoznadzor, Sergei Dankvert, did not rule out the introduction of a ban on the supply of products from Turkey. What will it cost us? Each new restriction on international trade causes great harm to tens of millions of consumers and brings small - compared to the damage - benefit to the producers of goods whose competition is reduced by the new ban.

On April 1, the nuclear security summit ended in Washington. Neither President Putin nor a representative of the Russian Federation with a lower rank was in the hall Just three examples (and there are many more in reality): North Korean missiles will not reach the United States, but they can explode halfway - this often happens to them (so far, however, without a nuclear filling, but for now).

In NT 9 of March 21, 2016, published a response Lev Shlosberg, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party, to Dmitry Oreshkin's text "The Unbending Grandmother" about Grigory Yavlinsky. regular contributor NT disagrees with Schlosberg's criticism Dear Lev Markovich! I am not a fan of public correspondence, but since you responded to my article about Yabloko with an open letter, I will have to respond in this genre as well.

Philologist and psychologist Alexander Etkind - about what historical memory is and how Soviet experience is different from German Alexander Etkind wrote a book on how the historical memory of Russians differs from the memory of Europeans, St. Petersburg, March 2016. Photo: Natalia Skek The book of the famous Russian scientist, professor of the European University in Florence Alexander Etkind “Krivoy Woe. The memory of the unburied ”is a cultural study of historical memory in Russia.

On March 29 and 30, two explosions thundered in Dagestan. Responsibility for the attacks was claimed by a local cell of the Islamic State * Two mines, made from high-explosive army shells, were laid on the side of the road near the Makhachkala airport and went off when a Ural and a UAZ transporting policemen seconded to the republic from Krasnoyarsk caught up with them. One dead, two wounded...

The best phrases of the week from Russian politicians, cultural figures and nameless geniuses Comed and commented on The New Times No war! Residents of Russia love the statements of capacious and comprehensive ones. It is not without reason that publishing houses after year of grandiose circulations are released by luxurious volumes - embossing, golden cuts, hundreds of pages - “great thoughts of great people”, “1000 main aphorisms of the twentieth century”, etc.

On March 28, United Russia gathered in Moscow and taught the basics of the political struggle of future candidates, including in single -member districts. There is a registration of voters and candidates for the primaries of the opposition democratic coalition. System parties are looking for new heroes in the regions.

*“Chronicle of current events”-a typewritten human rights information ballot, distributed in Samizdat in 1968-1983 “Until now, no one, looking into your eyes, will say: the external and domestic policy of the country, which is conducted by you (Vladimir Putin. - NT), if it is at all, has already led to the collapse of the financial system of Russia and the destruction of it as a legal state.

Alisa Kharcheva is one of the heroines of the OCCRP investigation about the women of the president and the apartments for them. FE : navalny.com The Kremlin’s reaction to exposure is for readers behind the hill, Maria Zakharova and so on are products for the domestic market Everyone is surprised: what kind of stuffing is this?