In early July, in Moscow, unknown persons killed the director of the Nosta GMBH company, Yuri Grinin, who owns 40 percent of the shares of the Orsk-Khalilovsky metallurgical plant, which is currently taken under the control of larger structures, ...

We celebrate not dates, but life. And happiness finds us or not - according to these marks, Vitaly NAYSHUL believes OUR INFORMATION Vitaly Arkadyevich Naishul was born in 1949. In 1971 he graduated from the Mekhmat of Moscow State University. He worked at a research institute under the State Planning Committee of the USSR. Since 1992...

"Chapaev" in transit from St. Petersburg Pelevin staged in Moscow for the first time. His most famous work - "Chapaev and the Void" - was directed by the young director Pavel Ursul, who has several productions based on modern foreign prose under his belt....

15 minutes late - execution In April, a letter arrived at President Putin's administration. “Your voters are turning to you - residents of the village of Tolstoy-Yurt, Grozny district of the Chechen Republic. Our village is located in the Nadterechnaya zone. All...

Exhibition of Anton Chirkov (1902-1946) at the Museum of Modern Arts I learned about Chirkov from his students, Yuri Vasiliev and Dmitry Krasnopevtsev. This is how invisible stars give themselves away by attracting other planets. When Chirkov needed a brief...

On July 24, 2000, Greenpeace held another protest action. This time, the world-famous organization opposed Western oil corporations, which, according to environmentalists, demonstrate complete indifference to what they can ...

If the authorities cannot break adults, then they take revenge on children. The now pensioner Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich invited Olga Nikolaevna Strelnik to her last place of work as a federal judge. Then, in 1995, he was still a guarantor...

In 1980, a graduate of the directing department of GITIS (who later became known to the whole world) persuaded me to write a stage version of Mowgli. They wrote together. The play "Jungle" turned out to be very tough, rather in the style of cruel ballads...

We do not publish letters addressed to other publications. However, in Ogonyok, the banker Mamut inadvertently offended Novaya Gazeta, we answered him in No. 28. Mamut also devoted fiery lines in his interview to K. Zatulin, but Zatulin's answer ...

On April 25, on the day of the second wedding anniversary, the wife of Andrey Veretennikov, a junior sergeant from the 176th Tula Guards Airborne Division, learned from the TV news about the execution of a column of the 51st Airborne Regiment, where her husband serves ....

I enter the summer forest, and it immediately takes possession of my soul, immerses me headlong into its green whisper. An infinite variety of shades of its greenery, this boundless palette, captivating with soft richness of colors. Air spray birch wood...

We demand the urgent intervention of the Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir RUSHAILO and the Chief Military Prosecutor Mikhail KISLITSYN Another wild incident in our army, which could be allowed only by those commanders who think ...

MONEY IN THE HANDS OF CRIMINALS IS MORE DANGEROUS WEAPONS Corruption: Its Causes, Victims, Victories and Defeats Europe is concerned about the problem of corruption in Russia. On this occasion, international conferences and seminars are held. And they try to share their experience with us....

An oil revolution has taken place in Chechnya. Another If a conversation comes up about what, in fact, the war in Chechnya is about, then the majority says: about oil. This is confirmed by sociological surveys. Her Royal Majesty the Chechen...

I PERSONALLY KNOW THE ONE WHO CLOSED JOHAR'S EYES A poor Parisian suburb of Vitry-sur-Seine. Rusty railroad tracks lined with wagons carefully wrapped in black plastic. The building of the old station, converted into a theater, hosts...