On Sunday in the Samara region, the election of the governor and the Grushinsky festival Who has forgotten, let me remind you: Konstantin Titov, now the ex-governor of the Samara region, received only 20% in the presidential election in his native region and 1.5% in general in ...

To the classic operatic question of the mad Herman “What is our life?” answered the political scientist Gleb Pavlovsky, stating on the Internet that our life is just “a bunch of PR”. Further - quite rudely: “Society is up to its neck in PR, and its own convulsions for ...

Russia's sovereignty has thrown many of us into no man's land. In Pechory, we were brought to a border farm. Aborigine Petrovich, who was walking a goat named Lydia, treated him to fermented birch sap and promised to show the border, “transparent as ...

In Novaya Gazeta of November 1 and 15 last year (“Mother Teresa’s Business” and “Mother Teresa’s Business-2”), as well as in the issue of June 5 this year (“Product and Sign”), materials were published about as a resident of Ingushetia Radimkhan Mogushkova and her ...

"Paris Cafe" Russian painting and graphics of the first third of the twentieth century. Moscow Art Center, st. Neglinnaya, 12, until the end of June. Paintings and drawings of the 1910s and 1920s reign at the Paris Cafe exhibition: Boris Grigoriev, Shterenberg,...

Horizontally, we have one Putin, and vertically, Putin put on a completely different Imperial uniform with Yeltsin's sleeves. It seemed that Putin would never get rid of them. But after the inauguration, Putin, apparently, understood what was needed ...

In addition, Mikhail Barshchevsky writes stories. His prose, one way or another, is about the “judicial class”. And more about the relationship between law and conscience. And about the faces that pass in front of "every judicial person." Usually a lawyer is trusted with honor and business ...

DO AS I DO! The self-proclaimed ideologist of building "real" capitalism in Russia again imposes his conditions on its leadership. I remember how the character of the brilliant Arkady Isaakovich Raikin figured out what would happen if those running around ...

Vladimir Recepter is an artist (Hamlet, Chatsky), albeit a poet, awarded the friendship of Akhmatova and Brodsky, as well as a literary critic, not recognized by the ranking table. His book "Farewell, BDT!" (Blitz publishing house, St. Petersburg) is composed of three parts. Here are the notes...

How a position is abused by a person who occupies it Now in Russia it is no longer customary to ask “who is to blame?”. They ask, “Who is behind this?” Someone arranges explosions, starts wars, imprisons and lets go. Journalists reveal secret...

In Russia, which is going through the second war in a row, there are still no rehabilitation centers for those who went through Chechnya. There is a new big trouble in the country: the syndrome of war is walking with might and main through the valleys and villages. Thousands of people are returning from the North Caucasus, who...

Tell me, is the funny, like the great, seen from a distance? Or is it necessary to run into the past with your heart? We decided to talk to Vadim Tonkov, a man who unobtrusively entertained us for decades in a row, and now he is trying to grab onto ...

The former prime minister called everyone donkeys. But everyone knows where the ears grow from. My ten-year-old daughter, when asked what she wants to become, answers: Chernomyrdin, he is rich. And then such a blow from Viktor Stepanovich! He declared himself as poor as a church mouse...

Psychologists do a lot of television research. But the TV people “do not notice” them The change of power, state reforms, the issuance of broadcasting licenses - all these challenges will set the direction for domestic television development in the coming ...

Passions around the decoding of our genome Some scientists say that such great achievements of mankind as the invention of the wheel, the first flight into space, the landing of people on the moon fade before this event. This was expected. And no matter how...