On April 2, the spring conscription began. And along with it, a new wave of violations of our constitutional rights, namely the right to alternative service. And while parents run to the doctors, trying to save their children from humiliation...

He was the best boss of the best economy in the country. Until the age of eighty-six. Seventy-five years of work experience. Fifty-one years of directorship. I was friends with him for eight years. He died eleven years ago. Such is...

The population is offered to pay for housing and communal reform In the Russian government, there is an amusing division of labor. Deputy Prime Minister Valentina Matvienko promises to solve social problems, and Deputy Prime Minister German Gref is working to...

Grisha loved the sea. And the lake too. He liked rivers. Grisha Gorin generally loved big water. We met in Yalta. He fished. He sailed on a boat far from the coast and caught a shark. He returned happy and showed his prey. This...

Much was expected in both capitals from the visit of Ukrainian Prime Minister Yushchenko to Moscow. Debts for gas, the arrest and release of Yulia Tymoshenko, the situation around the "Gongadze case" - and all this against the backdrop of ongoing protest rallies with the slogan "Kuchma, ...

WE ARE THE COLLECTIVE PUTIN Interviews with governors usually arouse suspicions that they are ordered. You might think that among the governors there are no those who can be interesting just like that, on their own and in their region, and not for some PR ...

By the 40th anniversary of the flight of Yuri Gagarin In two hundred years, Gagarin will turn out to be the same legend as Columbus is today (both in the cinema and in fiction, this same Columbus is drawn to anyone as they please). Such a real person - Yuri Gagarin - is under ...

A performance by the Mariinsky Theater is presented for the Golden Mask award. Music by Mozart. Behind the console is Valery Gergiev. Directed by Johannes Schaaf In a distant Russian outback, in the village of Lukino, among thoughts about the harvest of rye and oats by the Russian landowner A....

A GAME THAT DOES NOT END… Adabashyan went to the 19th century in company with Boris Akunin and French director Laurent It all happened almost before my eyes. In the white-tiled kitchen, mixing cigarette smoke with the sun's rays, Alexander...

What unites the authorities, the Nazis and the Orthodox Church? Over the past six months, dignitaries of the Russian Orthodox Church have spoken out in favor of abolishing freedom of speech even more often than government officials. And it would be nice if such statements were made ...

DIVERSION OF OPTIMIISTS Novaya Gazeta, together with CG IMAGE-Contact, continues the Open Russia campaign. Brief chronicle of previous events. In February of this year, the participants of the youth forum "Terra politicae" - students and graduate students...

The longer the action lasts, the more I am convinced that there are no miracles in the world. There are accidents. By chance, children's letters come to our editorial office. We are looking for sponsors. Suddenly it turns out that there are people who are ready to help us: the Interros company, ...

GUARD OF THE BALTIKA In the struggle for the right to publish official documents of the Kaliningrad regional administration, the newspaper "Guardian of the Baltic" won Since autumn, from the very day Admiral Vladimir Yegorov was elected governor, between local print media ...

I did not immediately understand why the tears came into an awkward movement. I am not ashamed to say this when I see and listen to the speeches of NTV journalists. But gradually I realized: from respect for these people, from fear for them and a desperate desire for them to win, ...

Ethnic cleansing in the suburbs - They forced us to crawl naked on the floor from room to room ... - They walked on our beds right in their shoes ... - They called us monkeys, black creatures ... - They spat in our faces .. . - They...