Rating on trust Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested on Saturday, when the financial markets have a holiday. On Monday, Yukos shares collapsed, frightened investors began withdrawing funds from other Russian stock assets. Then, in...

But the Grozny court did not believe it In the Oktyabrsky district court of Grozny, consideration of the first criminal case in Chechnya against an officer, a participant in the so-called "anti-terrorist operation", accused of ...

Women with candles in their hands surrounded the priest - there was an endless prayer service. No one seemed to feel the cold, although the day turned out to be icy - it got cold unusually early this year. The sky is low, the clouds are clinging to the heaps... And suddenly the crowd...

Do you know Russian folk wisdom about the law? .. I also remembered an anecdote that I had not remembered for twenty-five years. The thirties, another Stalinist purge in the party, four communist peasants were summoned to the secretary of the district committee ... The first ...

I STILL COME TO THE PARENTS WITH A BASEBALL BATT... The leader of the trendy "Leningrad" Shnurov is drunk and not serious. People love cords. No not like this. People love Shnurov. On the street, the musician is attacked by fans of different ages with requests ...

THE HISTORY OF THE BREAK-UP OF ONE FAMILY Letters have a strange fate. Some lie down, lie down in a conspicuous place, and then disappear somewhere once and for all. Others, years later, when friends for some reason become enemies, are able to turn into ...

In 1992, American citizen Joan Borsten received the worldwide rights to Soviet cartoons. This was done at a time when the most nimble people grabbed everything that lay badly. Film rental in foreign countries is not...

To Senior Investigator of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation S.K. Karimov from Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Nemtsov Boris Efimovich APPLICATION October 25, 2003 by you as ...

The curator of the Venice Biennale called the Third Rome the new capital of social life. Well, the theorist of the postmodern era is simply obliged to appreciate kitsch Italian art theorist Achille Bonito Oliva, who discovered the phenomenon of transavant-garde and curated...

Zinaida Serebryakova at the Nashchokin's House Gallery At last year's Sotheby's auction, her paintings sold like hot cakes at exorbitant French Impressionist prices, leaving behind the "promoted" Russian avant-garde. And at home, after a short boom ...

Moscow lawyer Mikhail Trepashkin remains in the penitentiary on a falsified case - in violation of all the norms of the current Code of Criminal Procedure. At first, the society learned that even though it is strictly forbidden by law, but if necessary, it is possible - just to search, ...

FSB pre-trial detention centers are outside the law. No one knows what is happening there. If we rank the claims against Russia from Western democracy, then, in addition to the clumsy and corrupt judicial system, the first line ...

GO AND LOOK Elem Klimov made only a few pictures. Each of them is a milestone in the history of Soviet cinema. Each is uncompromising, like Klimov himself. That's why his films got so bad. That is why there are so few of them. The system fought them, forbade them,...

Alexander Yarulov, director of the Podmoskovny boarding school, made a statement about the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Monday. Lyceum students expressed their regret about everything that was happening, asked when they would install...