Children are dying because officials have been unable to renew the license for a medicine that could save them for 17 years. On November 30, eight-year-old Nikita underwent surgery to remove his appendix at St. Mary Magdalene Hospital. He died that same day. The diagnosis is “malignant hyperthermia,” a rare complication of anesthesia, which in no developed country in the world has long been considered a death sentence. Because there is a drug that can relieve such conditions. But not with us...

The politician hopes that he and his associates can become the center of gravity of public opinion. Mikhail Kasyanov, former prime minister, co-chairman of the RPR-PARNAS party, told Novaya Gazeta about how the situation in the country will develop. That is, when the revolution happens. And also about how RPR-PARNAS will develop, whether Maxim Reznik will join it, what benefits Andrei Pivovarov will bring and whether Alexei Navalny and Serey Udaltsov will be arrested.

“Petersburg Theater Magazine” is celebrating its 20th anniversary with difficulty. It’s been two months since, thanks to officials, the childhood obsessive neurosis I experienced at the age of five has returned to me. I think about the “bad word” all the time. “I thought a bad word about Lenin” At the age of five I was sent to kindergarten, and almost immediately I brought home some expressions. “These are bad words,” said my mother.

The truth has not yet been sought, but the people and the police are already accusing each other of lying. On December 23, police dispersed an uncoordinated rally on Pionerskaya Square, and more than 60 people were detained. The protesters demanded a fair investigation into the circumstances of the death of 37-year-old Grigory Kochnev, who died on the Ring Road on December 17.