Vladimir Pastukhov's article "The trial of capitalism. How is the Navalny Case similar to the Khodorkovsky Case and the Magnitsky Case" caused a great resonance among the audience of the Novaya Gazeta website. We pulled out questions from the comments under the article and asked the author himself to answer them via Skype, explaining the accents placed in the text.

Former State Duma deputy from United Russia Vladimir Pekhtin joined the board of JSC RusHydro, RBC reports with reference to the company's press service. Due to the inclusion of Pekhtin, the quantitative composition of the board expanded to 14 people (previously there were 13). Recall that on April 11 it became known that Pekhtin could enter RusHydro.

The Prime Minister’s report to the Duma was successfully supplemented by the president’s supposedly unpublished statement posted by the LifeNews resource at a meeting on dilapidated housing in Kalmykia: “The problems are complex and difficult to solve, but still solvable ... If we work like this, we won’t do a damn thing ... Either I'm underperforming, or you're all underperforming and you need to leave. I draw your attention to the fact that today I am leaning towards the second option.

The Moscow City Court confirmed the decision of the Tverskoy District Court on the illegality of the fine against LGBT activist Sergei Gubanov, who was detained for kissing at the State Duma on December 19, 2012 (a protest against the adoption of the “law on propaganda of homosexuality”). The fine was declared illegal for a formal reason - it was issued by the police officers of the Meshchansky district, and not Tverskoy, as required by law.

Financing the liquidation of dilapidated housing from the federal budget in the Russian Federation for three years will amount to 126.6 billion rubles. Such a statement was made today by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting on the resettlement of citizens from emergency housing stock. “In total, in the next three years, 126.6 billion rubles will be allocated from the federal budget for the elimination of dilapidated housing,” RIA Novosti quotes Putin .

Confessions of a man who was forcibly kept in the apartment of the famous nationalist Georgy Borovikov (VIDEO) Confessions of a man who was forcibly kept in the apartment of the famous nationalist Georgy Borovikov (VIDEO) Georgy Borovikov, ex-leader of the Russian nationalist movement and former leader of the Russian liberation front Pamyat, and two of his associates, Andrei Shishkanov and Vladislav Bragin, have been arrested, the Russian Interior Ministry announced on Monday, April 15.

The fact that the intelligence and intelligence services missed the mark makes the post-9/11 Department of Homeland Security and its chief, Janet Napolitano, prime targets for criticism. The fact that the intelligence and intelligence agencies missed a beat makes the post-9/11 Department of Homeland Security and its chief, Janet Napolitano, prime targets for criticism...

A bus with British tourists got into an accident in the French Alps near the famous resort of Alpe d'Huez, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Sky News. As a result of the accident, one person died and three were seriously injured. The cause of the incident was the failure of the brakes on a sharp turn. There were 50 people on the bus in total.

Tonight, the office of the social network VKontakte, as well as the apartment of its founder Pavel Durov on Kamyshovaya Street, were searched by investigators of the Main Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg and operatives of the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. At this moment, about 20 people are working on the 6th floor of the Singer House on Nevsky Prospekt (where the VKontakte network rents office space).

The national team has been living without a title sponsor for half a year. It is possible that they will now be a foreigner The national team has been living without a title sponsor for half a year. It is possible that they will now be a foreigner ... The arrival of Nikolai Tolstykh as president of the RFU promised an unenviable fate for many "subjects" of football. Almost everyone was sure that the interests of the oligarchy and the sucking "dealers" would suffer.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill proposing to introduce fines for violating the rules for keeping cats and dogs, according to the website of the lower house of parliament. According to the text of the bill, violation of the rules for keeping dogs and cats entails a warning or the imposition of an administrative fine on citizens in the amount of 500 rubles to 1000 rubles; for officials - from 1000 rubles to 3000 rubles.

How the FSB in the Krasnodar Territory simply tried to present booty in the form of an NGO violating the law In the Middle Ages, there was a rule: a local prince, or an elector (depending on where the case took place) could declare a person outside the law. And with this man you could do anything with impunity.

Rector of the Russian State University for the Humanities on what to do with dissertation councils and the Higher Attestation Commission The rector of the Russian State University for the Humanities, whose merits include the depoliticization of the university and, as stated in the official press release, “the elimination of property lawlessness around the buildings in which the university is located,” told a Novaya Gazeta correspondent how to discourage the political and business elite from the

During the protest clashes after the presidential elections in Venezuela, four people were killed, Gazeta.Ru reports today , citing Reuters. Two people died in the state of Miranda, whose governor is Enrique Capriles, who lost the election. The other two are in the states of Tachira and Zulia. Clashes in Venezuela began yesterday after it was officially announced that the successor to the late President Hugo Chavez, Nicolas Maduro, won the election with 50.67% of the vote.

The European Parliament adopted on Tuesday a package of reforms aimed at strengthening the EU banking sector, including a new law limiting bankers' bonuses. The new rules limit bonus payments to top managers of banks at one base salary per year, or twice as much if a majority of the bank's shareholders vote in favor. The law will come into force next year and will also apply to European branches of foreign banks and employees of EU banks working outside the union.