The New Times continues to publish the diaries of the famous journalist Masha Slonim*, who went into exile for the second time For the first time I did not listen to the message of the President of the Russian Federation. Not that I listened to them regularly in the past, but sometimes in the car, sometimes in the kitchen I listened to the radio. And now I'm not interested at all. This year, I listened to another message delivered in the British Parliament almost on the same day as Putin's.

The only favorite of the early elections of the President of Uzbekistan on December 4 was the acting head of the republic, Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev. But the point is not only in the administrative resource.

Italian eurosceptics and supporters of the external course of the Kremlin won a referendum in Italy A referendum on constitutional reform in Italy, for which Prime Minister Matteo Renzi advocated, as predicted by The New Times ( cm. The New Times No. 38 dated 11/21/2016 ) ended with his defeat: almost 60% of Italians voted against changes in the basic law, which provided the head of the cabinet with great powers.

The seizure of bills of 500 and 1000 rupees (about 470 and 940 rubles), which “starting from midnight” become illegal, the Indians declared Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the evening of November 8. Starting from November 9, a small number of old banknotes (approximately 1800–4200 rubles) could be exchanged for a new -sample bill. The Indians should have time to put the rest of the cash before the new year on a bank account, that is, transfer to non -cash form.

What the president wanted to say, what he did not say and what he meant Every time before the annual message of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Federal Assembly in the politicized part of our society has a hype, as if before the final of the football Champions League. Sensitive revelations and loud promises - or both of them expect from the leader. So on the eve of December 1, 2016, the excitement was rather big.

Convicted activist Ildar Dadin was transferred from correctional colony No. 7, where he was serving his sentence. This was announced in a conversation with NT by the wife of the prisoner, Anastasia Zotova. “In the morning, lawyer Nikolai Zboroshenko arrived there, they didn’t let him in, they said that Ildar was transferred,” Zotova told NT. She added that she did not know exactly where Dadin was sent, but assumed that he was now in the Kirov region.

The Pushkin Museum for the first time in Russia will present a large -scale exhibition of the Georgian avant -garde of the first third of the twentieth century The exhibition opening the other day in the department of personal collections of the museum on Volkhonka is more than 200 works of painting and graphics from museum and private collections of Russia and Georgia: the works of Niko Pirosmani (Pirosmanishvili), Lada Gudiashvili, David Kakabadze, Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikova (Melikeyana),

On November 28, President Putin fired four officials who, contrary to his written order, became academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences. According to the President, if a civil servant works conscientiously at his post, he should not have time for science Mikhail Gelfand, professor at Moscow State University, consultant at Dissernet The question immediately arises: were Academicians Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov and Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh scientists or officials?

The author of The New Times watched in university cities of America a reaction of professors to the election of the president, which they did not expect, for whom they did not vote and whose coming to power feared Yuri Saprykin, Monterey, California - Raly, North Carolina - Minneapolis, Minnesota - Moscow OH My God ... Several solid men are facing a large screen and watch how the country's map is gradually covered with red. On the table, untouched wine bottles.

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi announced his resignation due to the fact that the citizens of the country did not accept his proposal for constitutional reform, according to the BBC. “The nos won, and they did it in an amazingly convincing way,” Renzi said. He also added that on Monday afternoon, at a meeting of the Council of Ministers, he would thank the members of the government for their work, and then go to the president of the country with a letter of resignation.

How in the USSR they fought with dissent - The New Times asked the KGB historian Nikita Petrov The process of writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Julius Daniel (autumn 1965 - February 1966): they were accused of handing their manuscripts abroad. Daniel was sentenced to five years of camps, Sinyavsky - seven, photos from the hall of the Moscow Regional Court.

Mark Zakharov fulfilled his dream - he set the "Oprichnik Day" based on Sorokinsky prose The famous anti -utopia Vladimir Sorokin, who has become the Bible of our time, celebrates his decade this year.

A Russian medical soldier was killed during the shelling of a hospital in the Syrian Aleppo, and two more medical workers were injured, TASS reports citing the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov. “Today, from 12:21 to 12:30 Moscow time, during the reception of local residents, the medical campus of the mobile hospital of the Ministry of Defense in Aleppo came under artillery fire from militants.

“As for his (Sentsov) creativity, he was condemned not for creativity, but for the fact that he took on completely different functions, according to the investigation and court bodies.

The Leninsky District Court of Kirov began a retrial of the case against Alexei Navalny and Pyotr Ofitserov about fraud in the Kirovles company, the verdict in which was overturned on November 16 by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. The defense side at the meeting filed two petitions: to dismiss the criminal case (rejected) and to return the case to the prosecutor's office to eliminate violations, since, according to the lawyers, the indictment does not indicate the signs of a crime.