New 35MM Cinema to Only Show Feature Films In Russia, where the average Hollywood blockbuster profits barely half a percent of its budget, the first cinema dedicated exclusively to art house has opened. WITH...

Patricia O'DONNELL, Deputy Press Secretary of the British Embassy in Russia, answers Novaya Gazeta's questions - Mrs. O'Donnell, first of all, let me thank you through you on behalf of Novaya Gazeta and its readers...

Report on Putin's meeting with relatives of the dead sailors "Kursk" August 2000. Photo: EPA When meeting with pain, the protocol department is resting. Instincts and soul work. How did the president behave at a meeting, where one of the parties is very high, and the other in sorrow? On Tuesday, on the tenth day of the death of Kursk, in the classified village of Vidyevo, which in the news pompous the city was a bargaining between former voters and, as it were, the president of Russia.

With summer premieres, NTV exposes itself to the fire of television criticism - You didn’t read the captions carefully, - one of our correspondents was told in the NTV press service, when he asked about the paradox of the appearance of the Ruble Zone program on the air, ...

Why did our children create a state within a state? Panic thoughts appeared in my head: “Did you really end up in a labor camp? And what is this strange word: "juventalia"?

... TV-6 channel: In early September, a new program "Kompromat.RU" by Ivan Usachev, previously known for the program "You are an eyewitness", goes on the air. The program will be dedicated to compromising evidence spread on the Internet on well-known politicians and ...

The arrival of "Admiral Nakhimov" in the "Kursk" For an unbearably long time, the TV told this story. How seven mothers and fathers from Kursk (no, not seven, but six, they clarified on the run, one mother fell ill with grief and could not move anywhere) gathered in ...

Explanations of Russian military officials regarding the catastrophe and the death of the crew of the Kursk submarine correspond to reality in terms of the level of intelligence. The generals, wearing cloaks of secrecy, did not even bother to conspire to...

Moscow - Grozny, nursing home First and foremost: all the charitable cargo collected by the readers of our newspaper has been delivered to its destination. From now on, several tons of things, food and medicines are in Grozny, almost completely ...

I AM A SIMPLE MAN, AND I CAN SEND We are greedy. Very greedy, for the tenth anniversary of Echo of Moscow, we wanted to get everyone to ourselves: the founding father Sergei Buntman, who reads fairy tales about the piglet Babe to the kids, and Ksenia Larina, whose ...

Once again about rock in my Fatherland About ten years ago I already wrote a long article about our rock. Then Vitya Tsoi died. And today I wanted to talk about others. Not only untimely departed, but also simply disappointed in their vocation, in ...

This is how myths are born. The Russian authorities use the help of rescuers from Norway and England, associated, by the way, with great risk, and so far, instead of “thank you”, again and again, Russian representatives and the media are exaggerating the version of the collision ...

Reputation is earned over the years. They earn by their deeds and achievements. Until now, there have been only fake ratings and propaganda. They were ready to believe both of them precisely because Yeltsin's successor had no reputation. Neither...

NOW A GOOD PERSON AND WITHOUT THE BLUES IS BAD The jazz festival in the Hermitage Garden ran for three days, from 18 to 20 August. The third in a row, it was very, very different from the previous two. Firstly, it was attended by foreign musicians from Lithuania,...

Trouble tied us to the TV. It turns out that this is the most important mass media. In the newspapers we read about what happened "yesterday". And we really need that “now”. TV channels have become our eyes. And here the king is the one who has...