On election day, we sent out our correspondents to "inspect" those Moscow polling stations that are close to the editorial office. They were assigned to work both as observers and as journalists. About his "election" impressions with ...

Employees of "Matrosskaya Tishina" conducted a personal search of the belongings of Yevgeny Baru, Platon Lebedev's lawyer On Friday, December 5, another scandal broke out involving the lawyers of Yukos. There have already been attempts to call them for interrogation, carried out ...

There are villages where the average life expectancy is 19 years, and the average salary is 50 rubles By nine in the evening, life on the streets of Dushanbe practically stops. Traffic was blocked on Rudaki Avenue, the main front highway of the city. Among...

In the assembly hall of Rosagropromstroy, where the election headquarters of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is located, three dozen journalists were frankly bored. On the big white screen, the Sport channel was played endlessly. News not included. Leaflets were handed out at the entrance...

The Sverdlovsk Chekist wrote to Moscow about corruption for several years. The Kremlin security officer did not read Now it has become fashionable to talk about the stability of the system. But more and more often representatives of the main departments that form the system of this power - the courts, ...

The people, turned into viewers, found their homeland The Duma was chosen by the federal TV channels. Contrary to the law, airtime was not divided in equal proportions among all participants. Favorite television "United Russia" received in the elections ...

A small woman in Russia is not at all the same as a small man. She can be entered in the Guinness Book of Records as a disinterested Russian deputy. She entered, took off her cloak and found herself in a strict woolen suit. - Can I...

STEPAN: Look, Piglet, how differently people voted in different regions of Russia. Very interesting statistics. HRYUN: Well, what's interesting there? STEPAN: For example, almost all of Siberia voted for the "bears"! Hryun: And for whom they ...

In the last issue of Novaya Gazeta, the article “Revolt of Judge Kudeshkina” was published, dedicated to a high-profile scandal in the judicial community. Recall that federal judge Olga Kudeshkina accused the chairman of the Moscow City Court Olga Egorova and...

“According to concepts” turns out to be fairer than according to the law According to a study of entrepreneurs conducted by a group of CISR employees led by I. Olimpiyeva in St. Petersburg this summer, for example, about the Law on Countering ...

Eldar knows how to preserve the old Moscow courtyards: they need to have a place to live in. On Chistye Prudy, at 8 Makarenko Street, there is a courtyard, which is listed as a wasteland in the plans of the district Basmanny Council. In the wasteland for...

The party struggle for seats in the Duma of the fourth convocation was one of the most dramatic and most dishonorable. It was more like a sporting event than a political competition. Before the start of the election campaign, the alignment of forces was ...

THE PEOPLE DIE, BUT THE ELECTORATE IS EXPANDING! Fact No. 1 “A sensational decision was made by the lower house of parliament at its last meeting. At the suggestion of deputy Raikov (People's Party), the Duma gave law enforcement agencies the right to detain...