The political elite got a taste of the innovation process Last week, Vladislav Surkov, deputy head of the presidential administration, mentioned that Prime Minister Putin would personally head the government commission on innovation. It would seem that we care. But in countries where there is no public policy, it is precisely such nondescript bureaucratic news that turns out to be full of intriguing political meanings.

Telman Ismailov was given a chance to revive his empire. For this, his capital will have to work at the Sochi construction site and in Chechnya To obtain Turkish citizenship, you need to be married to a local resident for at least three years or live in this country for five years without a break. The Russian businessman Telman Ismailov did not exactly satisfy these conditions.

Prisoner Vitaly Buntov claims he was tortured. correspondents to visit him in the colony The leadership of the Federal Penitentiary Service invited Newsweek In the Tula correctional colony No. 1, prisoner Vitaly Buntov often discusses selected passages from the Bible with his wife, Irina. “Last fall, he reminded me of how David fled from Saul, pretending to be insane. I immediately realized then that he was hinting that they wanted to declare him crazy, ”says Irina Buntova.

The Kremlin offers the intelligentsia to donate energy for modernization At the farewell to an American girlfriend, the highlight of the program was the song Hotel California, rewritten with Russian specifics in mind. The original fit perfectly: what is at least “we are all just prisoners here” worth. An image emerged of an endless, maddening Moscow traffic jam in the cold winter darkness, illuminated by the flashing beacons of government vehicles.

NATO command promises to find the key to the hearts of the Afghans. This key must be a large-scale military operation in Marjah. Alexander Lavrentiev, deputy chairman of the Committee of Internationalist Warriors, has been to Afghanistan twice in the past year and says that Russians are spoken of there with "terrible nostalgia." “Because we really did something there: we built, fed and drank vodka together,” he explains.

In 1977, when NASA began testing the shuttle, the space shuttle did not yet have engines - it was lifted into the air by an airplane, and then it independently planned to the ground. This program was overseen by the then head of NASA, Robert Frosch. He left the agency just a few months before the first shuttle, the Columbia, went into space. Now Frosch is 81 years old, and a replacement for the shuttles has never been invented.

In early March, the Photobiennale will open in Moscow for the eighth time. All major exhibition venues in the capital will be given photography. This time there are two themes: “Long live France!” - in honor of the Year of Russia in France and the Year of France in Russia - and "Perspectives and Retrospectives" - representing debutants and masters. There will be solo exhibitions of Peter Lindbergh, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paolo Roversi, Francoise Huguier.

Demonstrations in the regions go one after another. The Kremlin is working: let them rally, but about their own, without criticism of Moscow and Putin At the end of January, a protest rally in Kaliningrad drew 10,000 people. For one of its main organizers, oppositionist Konstantin Doroshka, this was a major success. But already last week, Doroshok left the Solidarity opposition movement. He himself is obscure, explaining the motives of his gesture.

Curtailing its lunar program, the United States announced to the world: it is too early for a person to strive for other planets The creator of the first Vostok spacecraft, Konstantin Feoktistov, has come a long way from an ardent enthusiast of manned flights to their implacable opponent. His last thoughts might seem seditious to the supporters of progress. “Man's place is on Earth.