Donald Trump’s decision to appoint ex-governor of the state John Huntsman to appoint an ambassador to the United States in Russia caused a resonance in Washington. This is one of the first embassy appointments of the new administration and one of the most noticeable: as acute as now, the “Russian question” has not been in the USA since the Cold War. But even then there was no talk of the intervention of Moscow in the American electoral process.

On March 7, Secretary General of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Mohammed Barkindo, said that Russia deserves "automatic entry" into the cartel. The next day, the price of a barrel of Brent fell by 6% and so far continues to fall. Downtrend again?

Why is the successes of the right populism prematurely consider the failure of liberal democracy Exactly 70 years ago, on March 12, 1947, US President Harry Truman performed in Congress with a speech that marked the birth of the Doctrine Truman.

The discussion was attended by Professor of the Higher School of Economics, political analyst Nikolai Petrov, television journalist Vladimir Pozner and editor of the journal policy Ivan Davydov. The discussion was conducted by the editor -in -chief of NT Evgeny Albats So what is the warning of Shakespeare to the kings? Vladimir Pozner: What they can and most likely lose their heads. In the literal or figurative sense.

On March 10, the new novel by Vladimir Sorokin “Manaraga” was released - an unexpected look at paper books in the digital era There is nothing wider than gastronomic images in relation to literature - from the newspaper stamp “tasty is written” to “spiritual food”. But Vladimir Sorokin is an incomparable master of renewal of erased metaphors: any stamp is embodied literally, discovering an unexpected depth and comic effect.

The Malaysian intelligence service told the press that there are over a thousand North Korean citizens in the country on a permanent basis, many of whom are engaged in espionage. Question: How can this warning affect relations with Pyongyang, which, after the assassination of the half-brother of the DPRK leader, are already worse than ever?

We survived another winter. The weather provokes to talk about the beautiful - about art, about poetry, a little about opera singing and, of course, about the greatness and power of the Russian language. The New Times is ready to talk about all this without hesitation Once, a bust was blown by a deputy Natalya Poklonskaya. Although no, here you should start from afar. Do you think the prosecutor’s heart has a heart? Moreover, a spiritual heart (whatever it means)?

The fellow citizens, tired, or even frightened by constant twisting of the nuts, are ready to look for and find signs of the liberalization of the regime in a little vegetarian actions of the authorities. An example of this is the stories with the miraculous liberation of innocent or recognized by political prisoners in February-March 2017.

These people lived next to us, and then climbed and left. On the Donbass - to fight for the self -proclaimed republics. On the Donbass - to fight as part of the volunteer ATO battalions. Or in Syria. To fight against the troops of Assad, against the Russians, against the international coalition, confused in countless groups with heavy names for the Russian ear.

On March 7, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin, speaking in the US Congress, announced Kyiv's desire to revise the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, which secured the country's non-nuclear status. Klimkin also asked Washington to help restart negotiations on this issue. The question of which status provides the best security for the country - nuclear or non-nuclear - to some extent concerns me personally.

On March 7, the media reported that politician Alexei Navalny admits the possibility of supporting a candidate from the Communist Party in the Moscow mayoral elections In fact, Navalny voiced this idea back on March 4 in an interview on the air of Echo of Moscow in Ufa after the opening of his campaign headquarters in the capital of Bashkiria.

John Huntsman , who, apparently, will become a new ambassador in Moscow, began to make a career even under Bush Sr.: in 1992, at the age of 33, he left the US Ambassador to Singapore. In 2004, he was elected Governor of Utah, and his governorship is considered extremely successful in economic terms. Until 2007, he owned a family business - a world -class chemical company Huntsman Corporation. In 2009, President Obama appointed him an ambassador to China.

“Ildara was detained for not showing his passport. I also got up with a picket, police officers approached me and asked me to show a passport. I refused.

The 1st Triennale of Russian Contemporary Art was opened in the Garage Museum-an ambitious project to study the country's art landscape. Including its disputed territories Triennale - an exhibition or festival, which takes place every three years, is a form of a cultural event that is quite suitable for modern art. Indeed, in three years, the picture of the world sometimes changes so much that art is simply obliged to catch up and reflect these changes.