With society against the authorities, or with the authorities against society Five years ago, the political future of the Yabloko movement seemed clear, and the prospects were impressive. Having secured the role of the "democratic opposition", the organization of Gregory ...

"The Art of the Second Half of the 20th Century" in the Tretyakov Gallery In the hall of the State Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, near the new halls, there is a sculptural composition by Nina Zhilinskaya. Two bronze figures, tired of serving at length in monuments...

To the Rise of the Sun of National Dignity To slightly paraphrase one famous Kyivian, it can be argued that questions of national phobias are the bloodiest questions in the world. We have an increased, painful interest in these issues. And dumb...

WELL WHAT TO TELL YOU FOR LONELINESS? Today, our special correspondent Igor Maslov, who intends to hitchhike around the globe for $80, must cross the seventh state border. He's moving fast and we're behind him. Travel...

Hazing in the army is a management resource. Nobody wants to lose him. Except soldiers Another heartbreaking soldier's letter. Another unbelted sadist in the barracks. And once again - the same question: so who rules the ball for ...

The head of the Solvychegodsk locomotive depot, Viktor Cheked, could not hide his annoyance: “We are fighting for the implementation of the industry's resource-saving program, and our partner, the power industry, pretends that this does not concern them at all. Look here...

THE KREMLIN IS PREPARING FOR SHAKES — The appearance of presidential initiatives concerning the federal structure of Russia cannot be called unexpected. Nevertheless, practically no one expected them to be published in such a form and in such an emergency ...

We are participating in reforms, because there is no non-democratic path to the market After the August crisis of 1998, when everything was bad for us, excerpts from an interview with Alfred Koch appeared in Novaya Gazeta under the heading “Farewell, washed Russia”....

Frankly speaking, we were sure that our publication "The Secret of the Miracle of Fatima" in No. 16 (e) for this year would have a continuation. But we didn't think it would be so fast. After the article was published, events began to grow like a snowball. But a little about events...

Okudzhava did not put points, but we still do not know how to continue it “Why?” is a childish question. Growing up, a person asks it less and less. Bulat Okudzhava called himself an unbeliever. (So, at least it was a couple of days before ...

STREET DOGS - A WORTHY TRIBE Vakhtang Kikabidze can probably be called lucky. Lady Luck accompanies him through life, accompanying him at all turns of fate. And now she smiled at the artist - in the film by George Danelia "Fortune" ...

The arrest of Gusinsky is, of course, a demonstrative act. This is how an impotent publicly molests women. For environmental information. And yourself. Here harassment is more important than a woman, which, of course, is diagnostic. Now about the president's area of ​​expertise. If...

In the early morning of June 12, two operational groups of officers of the GUBOP of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and the North Caucasian RUBOP in the mountainous regions of Chechnya conducted an operational-search operation that ended in complete success: a private Frenchman was released from Chechen captivity ...

Olya MAKSIMOVA, Kolya MAKLOUD, Kolya MEGVELIDZE Whoever visits in the morning... acts boorishly. Beware if you forget to turn off the radio: in the morning on almost all waves there is a wake-up call. Olya will come to you on 101.7 FM from 7 am on weekdays...

Dear Yuri Petrovich! I heartily congratulate you on your first fiftieth birthday! And in particular, I congratulate you on the fact that, being a well-known journalist, a desperate newspaperman, a writer-denunciator and moralist, a parliamentarian ...