The New Times asked representatives of the two parties the following questions: 1. What, from your point of view, are the causes of the collapse of a democratic coalition? 2. Do you plan to take part in the election after what happened To the State Duma in September 2016? 3. What mistakes were made? What should be avoided in the future?

The New Times continues publishing the diaries of the famous journalist Masha Slonim, who went into exile for the second time that I would continue my education at some Western university and "assimilate". Nevertheless, the first thing I did when I arrived in America was to work at Ardis, and after moving to England, to the BBC. In "Ardis" I, not looking up from Russian culture, hung out with American students and in just 8 months I almost completely "assimilated".

*“Chronicle of current events”-a typewritten human rights newsletter, distributed in Samizdat in 1968-1983 “to terminate the case due to the lack of composition of the offense. Judge Rutkevich - in the White Notepad, - Artem Loskutov announced the verdict on his page on the social network VKontakte Ramazan Jalaldinov tells the president how his village Kenhi actually lives, April 14, 2016 May 10, Tuesday The city court in Ramensky near Moscow added 10 days of arrest to activist Jan Kalevsky.

On May 10, a 19-year-old first-year student of the University of London Royal Holloway Muscovite Mikhail Mosessov woke up famous: on the eve he was noted at the Immortal Regiment campaign, having passed the center of London with a portrait of the “leader of the peoples”. The photo instantly diverged on social networks and online resources, the next morning the student was already calling the BBC ...

On May 10, at a meeting with military leaders and the leadership of the defense industry, Vladimir Putin spoke about the problems identified during the operation in Syria. The question is what counts as a problem. Since last October, the official Russian media have been reporting how Russian troops, who came to the aid of Bashar al-Assad on an exclusively legal basis, are moving forward in measured steps - from victory to victory.

On May 10, Vladimir Legoyda, chairman of the Synodal Department for Church Relations with Society and the Media, stated that the data published by the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow on the number of visitors to Easter services are approximate, and, to put it bluntly, are incorrect.

The path of a democratic coalition from creation to collapse tracked and analyzed the reasons for the New Times More recently, Vladimir Milov (left) and Alexei Navalny (right) did not question Mikhail Kasyanov’s right in the first place in the list of Parnas, Moscow, December 11, 2015 By the beginning of May, it became completely clear - the democratic coalition on the basis of the Parnas party fell apart. Not only due to the machinations of the treacherous Kremlin.

The 69th International Film Festival began with the premiere of the new comedy of the cult American "Secular Life" Woody Allen (in the center) points to her actress Kristen Stewart (extreme right) to something, no doubt, funny Cannes are once again pretended to the kingdom of superficial shine and chic.

On May 22, a vote on the primaries of "United Russia" will take place. On the same day, the future single -mandate will pass through the preliminary election procedure. How in Moscow the party of power is conducting a campaign and who will win - the New Times found out In the State Duma of the seventh convocation there will be 15 single -mandate from Moscow. The capital is a leader in the number of majority constituencies.

An attempt to participate representatives of the Foundation for the Corruption of Alexei Navalny in the failed elections to the Council of Deputies of Barvihi was the last example of the “real affairs” of the democratic coalition.

On May 12, The New York Times published a sensational interview with the former head of the Anti-Doping Center, Grigory Rodchenkov, who claims that a system of falsifying steroid tests was in place at the Sochi Olympics.

On May 11, the Ukrainian website "Peacemaker" published the data of journalists who received accreditation from the authorities of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic This list, allegedly obtained with the help of hackers, indicates the positions, contacts, duration of work on the territory of the DPR of many reporters, and even provides photographs of some of them.

40 years ago, in May 1976, eleven Soviet dissidents announced the creation of the Moscow Helsinki group (MHG) Members of the Moscow Helsinki Group at the very beginning of the journey. In the center is Lyudmila Alekseeva, next to her stands a member of the Soviet Group of International Amnesty Valentin Turchin. They sit (from left to right), Alekseeva’s husband, Nikolai Williams and two member of the MHG - Anatoly Scheransky and Yuri Manyukh, 1976–1977.

Director Harry Bardin brought a cartoon about the victory of plants over the mechanisms to Cannes.