What did Raduev say about Zakayev at the last interrogations before his death? The fact that the norm in Moscow, in London is nonsense. In Russia, as you know, you can condemn anyone, and for anything. It’s not at all the same in the UK: here give the courts objective ...

Why were the explosions of houses in 1999 declared to be the work of Chechen terrorists, while the criminals were found in Karachay-Cherkessia? Novaya Gazeta continues its journalistic investigation into the circumstances of the explosions of residential buildings in Moscow, Volgodonsk and...

On January 17, 2002, Yuri Davydov, the most modest of the remarkable writers of the twentieth century, died. Do you remember his novel “Deaf Time of Falling Leaves”? When I pass by his dacha in Peredelkino, I think he is still there. Every person must...

We have already written about lawlessness in Peredelkino (“NG” No. 87). Officials closed the children's bronchopulmonary sanatorium. 150 asthmatic children from poor families were evicted. Now, on the site of the already former sanatorium, it is planned to create some kind of ...

The international Eastern Mediterranean Christmas regatta has finished. From January 23 to 28, 14 yachts sailed 425 nautical miles from Turkey to Israel. Nine crews completed the test time. The Russian team of the yacht "Odyssey",...

They have long recovered from the war. To them, in Vietnam, not Rambo, but 16 million tourists are going. The length of the coast of Vietnam is over 1000 km. The whole country is curved along the sea and the outlines on the map resemble a lobster. The country intends to take...

Because we do not have enough hay for horses In Pushchino, a small town among the forests near the Oka, talk about stem cells is very popular today. You can hear about this phenomenon in a cafe, at a bus stop, and even in a bathhouse....

For a long time we followed the fate of the milkman and journalist Vladimir Chugunov from the village of Sverchkovo near Moscow. They rejoiced when the high jury honored him at the end of the past year with a diploma named after academician Sakharov "For courage in defending ...

One of the hosts of the TV program “School of Scandal” called him a fanatic of intellect (go figure it out - a compliment or a stigma?). And in parting, she even threw an arrow-quote from Gumilyov's "Fra Beato Angelico" at him, hinting that it was much more comfortable ...

Residents of the city of Kemerovo did not know where the Lozha theater was located, but nevertheless the seventh building of the Polytechnic University was found. On the second floor of a brick box with an uncomfortable iron dressing room and a cry of “Come to your senses!” instead of...

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Boris Chichibabin It is strange, but such a seemingly transparent, clear poet has never really been understood. Because our world is not divided by views on poetry at all. I called Chichibabin in the evening, on the eve of my departure for Kharkov, 12 ...

The National Board of Reviewers of the United States named the top ten films of 2002. It included “Frida” by Julie TAYMOR “Surrealistic Continent” called Andre Breton Latin America. Fiery temperament, the elements of canvases raging with colors ...