The French refused to imprison the Navalny brothers. The investigation has a spare “victim” The official press release of the Investigative Committee of Russia on the final indictment of the Navalny brothers in the “postal” criminal case is very similar to a clumsy attempt by the Investigative Committee to save face. It is not an easy task to get out of the delicate situation into which the department got itself into last December with minimal reputational losses. But the attempt is obvious.

New York mayoral election: the battle between Bill de Blasio and Joseph Lota - between a “leftist” and a “strong business executive” November 5, the first Monday of the month, is general election day in the United States. This year, the election for the mayor of New York is of the greatest interest.

In November, the winner of the competition for the development of the largest vacant lot in the historical center of the capital will be announced What is Zaryadye and where to look for it? Try asking your friends, and I assure you, few of them will tell you anything of substance. Perhaps only pensioners from among the native Muscovites, who remember the cinema of the same name, demolished along with the Rossiya Hotel, will provide an indirect geographical clue.

New Rubinstein Lev Rubinstein, one of the founders of Moscow conceptualism, is often among the first to speak out on important issues. And often his caustic and witty columns are shared with quotes on social networks. And all because Rubinstein knows how to see the little things that make up “life” and put his observations into words. As a result, in the words of Peter Weil: “I want to read Rubinstein to obtain physiological pleasure.

The departure of the famous economist Sergei Aleksashenko to the United States caused a lot of noise, and it’s time to talk about the trend - new career trajectories for experts once in demand in their homeland. In an interview with Novaya columnist Andrei Kolesnikov, the former Deputy Minister of Finance, ex-Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank and Director for Macroeconomic Research at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) explains the reasons for what is happening.

The only Russian cello festival, Vivacello, celebrating the limitless possibilities of one instrument, is celebrating its first five-year anniversary.

What remains of childhood? A long day, a long summer, an endless life ahead and a short sudden thought that gives rise to shock and resentment: will someone really play football under the window, build a hut from the scenery in the theater courtyard, lie on the sun-warmed sand in an invisible standing cloud of the smells of wormwood and mown grass, and I won’t be there? Oh, how we love to be hypocrites and easily forget that we are closer to death in childhood than in our mature years.

Year of Shoigu in the Ministry of Defense Pavel FELGENGAUER columnist for Novaya Sergei Shoigu replaced Anatoly Serdyukov, who was fired from the Ministry of Defense due to a scandal, on November 6, 2012. Since 2008, Serdyukov and his Chief of the General Staff Nikolai Makarov have been carrying out an extremely unpopular military reform with the aim of radically modernizing the hopelessly backward and virtually uncombatable Russian armed forces.

— Are there really two lists of applicants for the Moscow POC - from you and from Borshchev? — I’m not promoting any list. It’s good that the competition has finally become two or three people per place. Because in many regions, whoever asked to join the PSC was hired. I don’t understand the position of people who are afraid of the competition. The Public Chamber should not only cut off on formal grounds, but also study what kind of experience a person has in human rights activities.

The Third Way Center for Contemporary Art has been arguing with the Chernigov Miracle Workers' Compound for the building for 21 years. The courtyard took decisive action - they occupied the controversial building, effectively stopping the work of the center. Musicians and artists were left without workshops and a stage The entrance to the entrance of the disputed house on Pyatnitskaya Street is guarded by a private security company hired by the courtyard, locking the lattice door.

The folk dance club “TudaSyuda” is a group whose members have been recreating traditional instrumental music, instrumental ensembles and ancient dances of the peoples of Russia for five years, simultaneously resurrecting the instruments themselves, such as the gusli, accordions, balalaikas, Vladimir horn and hurdy-gurdy (the list is far from complete), and playing techniques.

The School of Dramatic Art Theater hosts the Jazz in the Autumn festival, the specificity of which is that it is exclusively German. The subtitle of this year's festival - "3 x 3" - describes the form: there will be three performances - on November 3, 4 and 5 - by three trios, each representing a different area of ​​jazz.

After three years of silence and almost four years of absence from the stage, Mylène Farmer returned - first with a new album Monkey Me, and then with a world tour in support of it called Timeless 2013. Both the tour and the album are a revival of the singer's collaboration with producer, songwriter and video director Laurent Boutonnat, to whom Farmer owes much of her global fame and semi-divine status in France.

In the new non-performance by Chulpan Khamatova Chulpan Khamatova took the stage with a courageous task: to intertwine the image of Marina Tsvetaeva and Bella Akhmadulina with music, to bring two poets to the stage - through prose and through poetry. The title describes the action: “At the hour when you walk into souls as into hands.” Chulpan is a star, and moreover, a moral authority. She already has a name, they say - Chulpan, and everything seems clear.

Who forced the head of the gang, whose members killed Novaya Gazeta journalist Igor Domnikov, to change his testimony in favor of the defendant Sopot On October 30, the Lublin Court of Moscow began the trial of Pavel Sopot, the man who, according to the indictment, directly handed over the order for the brutal beating of our journalist Igor Domnikov to the leader of the Tagiryanovsky organized crime group. Beaten to death with a hammer, Igor died two months later without regaining consciousness.