I have two news - good and bad. The bad news is that our most important of the arts is going to hell, like the famous carriage from the Potemkin stairs. And here is a good one: the largest national film festival, "Russian Cannes", how lovingly ...

About the time when it was impossible to speak or listen The only Soviet milestone that is not subject to any doubts is the Great Patriotic War ... 20 million human lives. We won. Dot. And no truth that...

"Russian man" - signed Ogarev in letters to Herzen. Two of the regular participants in the discussion on the Novaya Gazeta website (NovayaGazeta.Ru) describe themselves as "just a Chechen" and "just a Russian." Issue 16 published excerpts from their...

OR PR AS A MEANS OF PROOF THAT THE OFFICIAL IS STILL INDISPENSABLE Last May, the career of the former Minister of Fuel and Energy Viktor Kalyuzhny turned out to be broken like the backbone of a dried sturgeon. Despite all efforts to prove their...

THE FORGOTTEN REGIMENT ON NTV On June 22, Yevgeny Kirichenko's author's program The Forgotten Regiment will debut on NTV. 59 years ago, the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet people against the fascist invaders began. Almost six decades later...

Will the State Duma dismiss Ustinov A month has not passed since Vladimir Ustinov was made the real Prosecutor General of Russia (he barely got rid of Kozak’s competitor), the filthy letters “i. oh, how about...

PEOPLE ARE BETTER THAN HUMANITY FROM WAR DIARIES 1943 28.VIII. Products have not been delivered for three days. We eat mushrooms and stolen potatoes. None of us are outraged that it is stolen. Including me. Hunger dictates...

Someone will become David, someone Goliath. But in the event that the people remain nobody, Vladimir Putin once again demonstrated to the country and the world that he is still not a politician yet and is only learning this profession. Unfortunately, his teachers...

Each government makes its choice, because the time at the helm depends on it Work to streamline the political system is in full swing. Having cut into seven federal districts, Kremlin officials took up political parties. The task has been set...

They met on August 19, 1969, when she was celebrating her thirty-second birthday in a restaurant. It was in Narva, on the set of King Lear. We got married almost immediately. In 1973, again on her birthday, on the set in...

The parliamentary intrigues of Berezovsky and Stroev may soon turn against them. On Friday, the State Duma is to adopt a law on the Federal Assembly, which not only removes governors from the new composition of the Federation Council, but also deprives them of...

Gadzhi Makhacheva (Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Public Associations and Religious Organizations of the State Duma of the Russian Federation) - The number one news for me is the appointment of Mufti of Chechnya Akhmed Kadyrov as head of the provisional administration of Chechnya. I am personally familiar with...

Ballets at the Novaya Opera Mikhail Fokine's Beloved Child The deceptively classical ballet The Vision of the Rose has been restored by the Imperial Ballet under the baton of Gediminas Taranda. Recovery is a risky business. There will always be connoisseurs or, even worse, ...

Literary magazines in May about the Russian intelligentsia Only two magazines in May remembered the Victory Day and the war. In the “Conference Hall” of the “Znamya”, prose writers and poets of different generations were talking about why “there is no writer younger than 60 now, ...

Each katsap for Karatsupa? On a sunny Monday in June, when the northern Kim was just getting ready to kiss his southern namesake, when the Russian Prosecutor General was still rummaging through the drawers of his desk in search of a clean...