On April 19-22, the seventh jazz festival was held at the state school-complex No. 686 in the "Class Center" of musical and dramatic art. Within the framework of "Festos" - a non-profit foundation for student creativity - this is already the third...

MY SONGS OVER THIS She is timid, modest, shy, trembling, vulnerable, defenseless. Absolutely not a driving singer. No social or political gestures, no spiritual demarche. And he does not suit a solemn circus from his craft. Dima Dibrov...

The court banned the ORT TV channel from showing its version of Sherlock Holmes after the last episode aired. "Media-Most", which owns the rights to the original film, considers the new "Memories of Sherlock Holmes" plagiarism and...

I TRIED TO PREVENT THIS WAR Are negotiations with Chechnya possible? With whom? A. Maskhadov speaks about this in an interview for Novaya Gazeta Since December last year, I have been trying to meet with Maskhadov. At the same time, as a human rights activist, I understood that ...

IF HER IS PLEASANT WITH THE RUINS Traveling through Grozny is like a walk through memory: a palace stood here, a school here, and a theater there. Now there is hate. We were already in Kabardino-Balkaria. In the drunken haze of the Caucasian feast, they talked about the generous land, ...

A generation grew up that had neither "My friend Kolka" nor "Scarecrow". For 10 years, the studio. Gorky made 5 children's films Do you have children? So, you roughly guess in what space they exist. In their proscenium...

NOT YET MINESTERY, or Once again about the PR campaign around drug trials We live in a curious time when campaigns of the most unpredictable content have become commonplace in the media. Well, it is already difficult to surprise us with pre-election passions ....

GOOD EARS We stopped hearing each other. Only yourself. And this does not require arguments. Maybe it's time to learn to hear each other. Novaya Gazeta is starting a new campaign. We will build bridges between officials, oligarchs and ordinary...

Chechen high school students - about their new, post-war worldview A serious young girl in a strict dark suit, an ironed blouse came up, God knows where in these conditions she was also bleached, and albeit very dusty, but still ...

Salute to Shvydkoy Why does the Minister of Culture need tourists and filmmakers? I have already begun to forget how in the seventies, before each trip abroad (especially if a tourist was in a capitalist country), it was humiliating to obtain permission from the district party committee ....

Mankind has gone through all the cycles of learning. Now he has to combine two worlds - spiritual and material - into one whole. For achieving the goal of direction, speed is always important. A turtle with a compass will always overtake a person if he has lost his way ...

IS THE EUROBONDS DEFAULT POSSIBLE? One of the associates of the famous financier Soros - Maskovich, the founder of the largest private bank in Austria, bequeathed two commandments for success in banking. The first is that the bank must have many entrances and...

DON'T HESITATE On April 26, on Wednesday, Mayak radio began broadcasting in the Moscow FM band. It will be a new Mayak with new programs and voices. Almost forty people from among the listener's acquaintances for a long time are awaiting dismissal...

While there was a struggle for power in Russia, its economy began to develop rapidly. The state, as a bureaucratic apparatus, successfully defeated society over the past ten years. It won once again on March 26, arranging elections the same way then ...

The percentage of taking someone else's good is enriched by new tricks. Another ghost is roaming Russia. The specter of the "dictatorship of the law" seems to be intended to replace the thinning mirage of democracy. It's time to take a closer look at the next propaganda ...