Recently, the premiere of the TV movie "Slave Market" was held with great success on Channel One. 6,300 hostages have passed through Chechen slave markets over the past four years. That's what it says in the movie, the factual material of which is based on data...

An official of the Kremlin administration is trying to subdue Sochi. For the Caucasus that remains with Russia, it needs its own little Moscow. In addition to the resort of Sochi, Russia has nothing suitable for this. Indeed, Sochi with its half a million...

The tenth "Message to Man" was, in short, that life on the planet, although absurd, as in the "Village of Idiots" (best animation, Nikolai Fedorenko, Canada), but on the whole is not devoid of balance, which is given to it by faith, hard work, humour...

“In the current conditions of carrying out reforms, the population should have a banking institution in which people would firmly believe. They believed and knew where they could place their savings, even small ones, and at the same time not be under the sword of Damocles of fear...

Resuscitation of TV entrusted to the Internet The Internet has recently become inseparable from the people, as once Lenin from the party. Chats, e-mail, online shopping, news feeds - this is not a complete list of pleasures that you can ...

THE DOOR TO EXIT YOURSELF-3 In previous publications (Novaya Gazeta, No. 21 and No. 24), it was told about a video cassette on which a former psychiatrist, and now, as it turned out, a Scientologist, scares with horrors about the profession in which he himself worked for 17 years. All...

The first results of the amnesty The news about the amnesty always causes conflicting sensations. Its current version is doubly controversial. To oppose is to approve of overcrowded cells, in which not often hardened criminals and not ...

Who will own the controlling shares of Channel One Watching the clumsy dances of military and civilian officials around opposition TV channels, one sometimes marvels at the carefully constructed plans of some private individuals regarding channels ...

How Russia's strategic reserves disappear Everything is intertwined here: a unique scientific experiment, bandits in masks, the state stock of rare metals, the cabinet of ministers, secret service intrigues, nuclear research, striking miners...

The Ministry of Press has announced a witch hunt. As well as astrologers, fortune-tellers and other politically incorrect public. Freedom of speech has the face of Lesin. Round, with little bags of sadness. In principle, if all the newspapers and TV are on the same face, this is even good. AND...

They say our life will bend anyone. But it only seems... Potanin was ordered. The customer was the state. Vladimir Potanin spent the whole last week in communication with the Prosecutor General's Office, and at the end of the week he was summoned to the carpet in the Kremlin ....

"I'M SORRY FOR THE RUSSIAN TEAM..." - Our team started badly at the European Championship. But I am sure that the Dutch are one of the best players in the world. Our team plays beautifully and powerfully, but its most important matches it almost always...

Among the dozens of creative reviews of professional skills, the Contrary-2000 competition, established by the YABLOKO association, Novaya Gazeta and the Glasnost Defense Foundation, deserves special mention. Firstly, this is a contest for journalists only...

As in the good old days, benefits, like special rations, are distributed by the authorities. There is no such bureaucrat who would not dream of managing the Brownian movement. Well, let alone market mechanisms - God himself ordered. But the human factor is a thing in the same...

What is popular in Europe is in our nature. Excitement. Especially in football. You bet, for example, a ruble on the victory of your favorite team - and jitter to your heart's content. Lost - console yourself that the spectacle was worth a ruble, won - rejoice. Eat...