As early as March 27, Vladimir Pronin, the chief policeman in the capital, signed an order prohibiting unreasonable verification of documents. We followed the actions of the capital's policemen and repeatedly observed how they continue with hungry eyes...

The forum of art initiatives is the most informal of all the annual events of the capital's art life. It resembles a student skit, where the cheerful and resourceful give a light to the smart and correct. Beginners and famous, artists and...

Do foreign athletes playing in Russian championships make our sport convertible? Everything has always come to our country from the West. Sneakers, jeans, Coca-Cola, whiskey ... For the time being, we have not heard anything about legionnaires either ....

The Novo-Petersburg Chekist clan, which has all the signs of a domestic junta, has up to 6,000 names of its representatives, who occupy various government, public and commercial posts. Not only people with a criminal background enter this...

Garbage as Graphics of the 20th Century The summer review of contemporary art makes us put together a picture of the surrounding world, like a puzzle, from fragments of all visual techniques. And the Museum of Private Collections, continuing to spread history in its halls...

Amazing care: the Pskov government subsidizes the production of alcohol from the budget Chairman of the Committee for the preparation of the celebration of the 1100th anniversary of Pskov Valentina Matvienko visited the city to understand how ready it is for the anniversary. Official...

A report from a city where instead of buses there are armored vehicles, the Northern capital is not only St. Petersburg. Russia is a big country. Sakhalin also has its own such "capital" - Okha. City of oilmen. Previously, there were such cities in the north of the island ...

This week, July 18, is the anniversary of Yevgeny Yevtushenko. The sixties cross the seventy-year milestone. But even such a respectable age does not stop those who scold them. They've been scolding for half a century. So many people read. One day I caught myself...

The last day of work of the head of the 124th laboratory for the identification of those killed in Chechnya, Colonel Shcherbakov INFORMATION OF NOVAY GAZETA The 124th Central Laboratory for Medical Forensic Identification of the Ministry of Defense is the only one in ...

Censors of the First Channel turned the tragedy at the festival "Wings" into a cheerful concert The tragedy at the beer rock festival in Tushino claimed eighteen lives, more than thirty people are still in hospitals. One can argue whether...

YOUR FOOTBALL WILL BE POORER WITHOUT FOREIGNERS Ognjen KOROMAN is one of the best legionnaires of the Russian football championship. The Serbian midfielder came to Dynamo Moscow in 2002 and immediately became a fan favorite despite the fact that...

This competition is held for the sixth time. Founders and organizers: Russian Democratic Party YABLOKO, Novaya Gazeta, Glasnost Defense Foundation, Alliance of Heads of Russian Regional Mass Media (ARS-PRESS). What distinguishes the competition "Contrary" from ...