Cheap and cheerful According to the online publication "Bulvar.ru", Boris Berezovsky, who asked for political asylum in the UK, changed his mind in favor of China. The extravagant choice is dictated by the fact that life in the Middle Kingdom is much...

Guitarist Yuri Naumov, who has been living in New York since 1990, once again comes to Russia in April and gives concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Yuri Naumov. Here's his look when he takes the stage: long hair, nervously unstable...

Spanish justice is ready to return us millions of dollars. The Russian is afraid to take them We know how much money has disappeared from the country over the past decade: according to experts, up to 300 billion dollars (President V. Putin names the figure: ...

Umka is a unique creature. IN many respects. For example, dozens of young bands are striving to get on the radio or "light up" on the TV screen at all costs. And she doesn't care. Although, I'm sure if she had such a goal, she wouldn't...

A THIRD OF MY PHONE BOOK IS LEAVED AND I AM HERE! So much was drunk for Shenderovich's health that he became immortal Readers of Novaya Gazeta do not leave the well-known TV presenter without their questions: - You always talk about your duty to ...

Difficult BREAD OF THE CHEKIST The KGB considers it necessary to confiscate parcels with matzah We continue to publish top secret documents from the archives of the KGB of the USSR (beginning see Nos. 19, 21). In previous releases, we printed support documents...

April 1 is the birthday of Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol Traveling around Italy, I stayed for three days in a small seaside town visiting my friend, poet and artist, and his Russian wife. In general, Russian women played a huge role ...

According to Western cinematographers, Russians should be bald-headed and with thick hair. The appearance on the Moscow screens of "Birthday Girl" with Nicole Kidman in the role of the Russian girl Nadia could not but provoke a brief digression: what kind of foreigners ...

Two of our comrades got into trouble. The wonderful writer Friedrich Gorenstein once gave Sinyavsky a new novel to read. When, after reading it, Andrey Donatovich began to make remarks to the author, Gorenstein interrupted Sinyavsky, saying that...

Strange visions suddenly visit me in broad daylight. I am walking along my own street, which is wide enough, before my eyes a few years ago it was still being expanded and streamlined. Pavement for four lanes, well-raised wide sidewalk,...

Standard of living in Moscow: found the bottom mark “I am an old metro builder, in the past a shock worker of socialist labor. In 1985, one might say, an emergency happened to my brigade. Moving south, we found that the rock was getting softer and more pliable....

Mike belonged to a wonderful tribe of dolts. I didn't know Mike Naumenko. In those years - I mean the end of the seventies, the middle of the eighties - it somehow didn’t bother me very much: well, I’ll have time. He's somehow familiar or...