The plot is 11/12 Photo: "New Gazeta" The Institute of Modern Development (Incor), which is headed by Igor Jurgens, was considered and is considered the “brain trust” by Dmitry Medvedev - about the same as the Center for Strategic Development (CSR) of the times of “Early” Vladimir Putin ...

Report from the St. Petersburg snowdrift St. Petersburg officials dubbed this winter "anomalous." “For 130 years, the city has not seen so much rainfall,” Governor Valentina Matviyenko tirelessly repeats, explaining the impossibility of putting the roads and roofs in order. There is enough snow... St.

The article by Lilia Shevtsova is the most discussed this month both at the News forum and in the blogosphere. We publish fragments of discussion on the News website with reductions acceptable in the paper version. Photo: "New Gazeta" Theses of L. Shevtsova ("New", No. 1 dated 12.01.2011) - the experience of the "velvet revolutions" of Eastern Europe allows you to formulate an axiom: a breakthrough to freedom can be bloodless only if the intelligentsia manages not only the role in society ...

On Monday, on Triumfalnaya Square in Moscow, regular opposition rallies were held in defense of the 31st article of the Constitution. More than 50 people detained As expected, the police did not touch only the participants of the rally, agreed by the head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Lyudmila Alekseeva, with the Moscow authorities. Twice "dissenting" - both with the authorities and with Alekseeva (mostly they were ...

Who and under what conditions was released from the KGB pre-trial detention center On January 27, Vladimir Kobets, the head of the initiative group of ex-presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov, was released on bail not to leave the pre-trial detention center of the KGB of Belarus. A day later, a preventive measure - also on recognizance not to leave - ...

Olimpstroy has a new president - the fourth in three years On Monday, it became known that Taimuraz Bolloev, head of the Olimpstroy state corporation, resigned. Almost immediately, Sergey Gaplikov from the apparatus of the Government of the Russian Federation was appointed to his place. The change coincided with... On Monday, it became known that Taimuraz Bolloev, head of the Olimpstroy state corporation, resigned.

UAC head Alexei Fedorov dismissed “For non-fulfillment of instructions for the preparation of innovative programs of a state-owned company” - with this wording, Dmitry Medvedev fired the head of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) Alexei Fedorov on Monday. As the assistant announced...

It turned out that registering a movement in support of the president is as difficult as against him Photo: "New Gazeta" Yesterday, at the building of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, pickets of the Promedvedevsky movement began for the accelerated modernization of the country “Russia, forward!”. Its participants, headed by the State Duma deputy from Fair Russia, Gennady Gudkov, demand traffic registration, in ...

On Monday evening, at the Council of Foreign Ministers of the European Union, all twenty-seven were unanimous: no one in Europe can let this go down (the big eastern neighbor is still outside the brackets of European geography). The general mood was evident during the day, when the ministers, getting out of the limousines at the VIP entrance of the Justus Lipsius Palace, talked to journalists.

On Monday, when sanctions against the Belarusian regime were discussed in Brussels, searches continued in Minsk "Shaking" young oppositionists. A search was carried out at the home of one of the activists of the StudRada youth initiative, student Mikhas Matusevich. The search was carried out by KGB officers in the framework of the case of organizing mass riots on December 19, 2010.... "Shaking" young oppositionists.

Chapter Two: House Arrest Last Saturday evening, on Belarusian television, they suddenly said that my father, Vladimir Neklyaev, had been changed from a preventive measure to house arrest. Of course, no one bothered to tell our family about it directly. I understand: intelligence agencies... Last Saturday evening, on Belarusian television, they suddenly said that my father, Vladimir Neklyaev, had been changed from a preventive measure to house arrest.

"I do not believe!". Celebrity score key to January premieres “I don’t believe” is the name of the play about Stanislavsky, which has just been staged at the Stanislavsky Theater. The artistic director of the theater Alexander Galibin recently staged a play about Chekhov, specially commissioned by Elena Gremina. Perhaps exactly... “I don’t believe” is the name of the play about Stanislavsky, which has just been staged at the Stanislavsky Theater.

Report of European Senator Dick Marty on the trade of human organs Photo: "New Gazeta" Dick Marty, the author of the famous reports on the CIA secret prisons in Europe and about the violation of human rights in the North Caucasus, submitted his next investigation in the January session PACE. This time Marty's report explores in detail ...

Dismissals, deductions and weaning of children as a means of pressure on dissidents At the moment, not all of the more than 700 detainees on December 19 have gone through the administrative courts. Those who have served administrative detention are now facing dismissal from their jobs, expulsion from universities, and interrogations. According to the committee... At the moment, not all of the more than 700 detainees on December 19 have gone through the administrative courts.

The protest action in the suburbs of Omsk was supported by residents of many regions of Russia The news of the hunger strike in the village of Verkhny Karbush, despite the silence of the Omsk and federal media, spread throughout Russia and found a lively response in its various parts. As the starving people say, residents of Moscow, Krasnodar, ...