You have in your hands the latest issue of our newspaper, which has been published under the Vremya Novostei brand for more than ten years. It is almost entirely devoted to the outgoing zero years of the 21st century and consists of materials published in our newspaper in 2000-2010. We tried to select those that, in our opinion, allow us to remember important and characteristic events and problems.

Evgeny YASIN, economist, scientific director of the State University - Higher School of Economics: -- For me, the Moscow News brand means a lot. Under this name, the newspaper, led by Yegor Yakovlev, participated in the main events of the times of perestroika and democratic reforms. This time was extremely important for the fate of Russia. Any publication that takes on this brand also takes on considerable responsibility. Of course, the situation is changing, and social accents are changing.

- Strict newspaper! There was no need to sort through a pile of half-naked women in search of information and a pile of information in search of an idea. Strict, laconic, with good literature, good theater, good cinema and good sports. As if she had survived from a time when everything was very bad, and some things were very good. When we were together. Let's move everything (from Vremya Novostei to Moscow News. - Ed. ) Mikhail ZHVANETSKY, writer:

Mikhail PIOTROVSKY, director of the State Hermitage: -- The Vremya Novostey newspaper turned out to be a very successful form for preserving the tradition and spirit of Moscow News. The time has come, and the old name returns. But the spirit never disappeared.

The impotence of power, or Farewell to the zeros The 2000s ended almost exactly as they began. Great powers that thought they were in control were faced with unforeseen players who could mix up the cards. At the dawn of the decade, a transnational terrorist network loudly announced itself, which in the fall of 2001 struck at the heart of the modern West. And in 2010, a world-wide exposure session was staged by a computer genius who came from nowhere.

Anatoly KARACHINSKY, president of the IBS group of companies: -- “Vremya Novostei” is a newspaper for me, which I perceive as the newspaper of my friends and people close to me. And “Moscow News” is a newspaper that I will now support, I will be in the first row of its fans, I will be its fan. Anatoly KARACHINSKY, president of the IBS group of companies:

Best translated novels of 2010 Jonathan Coe. The incredible private life of Maxwell Sim. Per. from English E. Poletskaya. - M.: Phantom Press, 2010. In the novel “The Incredible Private Life of Maxwell Sim,” the number one British writer brings to the fore a hero of the post-crisis time, a whiner devoid of energy, whose lot is a boring job, a sluggish existence and several dozen virtual friends in FB.

Director Konchalovsky made a children's film that even adults should watch with caution On the first day of the New Year, the film “The Nutcracker and the Rat King” directed by Andrei Konchalovsky will be released in Russia. But it is not the Christmas leafiness of Petipa’s famous ballet or even the hypnotizing horror of Hoffmann that greets the New Year’s viewer with this movie.

The residential quarter in Pskov is built on the site of mass graves of Soviet prisoners of war Neat white high -rise buildings with blue roofs, which received the nickname "Blue Berets", are already populated by the military from the Pskov landing division. The long -awaited comfortable apartments of officers and their families, who had gripped in dormitories, barracks and garrison communal services for decades, received as part of a program to improve housing.

The announcement of the verdict against Mikhail Khodorkovsky was timed to coincide with the New Year The verdict against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev will, it seems, be a New Year’s “surprise” for them. His announcement in the Khamovnichesky Court of the capital was supposed to begin yesterday, but was unexpectedly postponed to December 27. At the same time, few doubted that the verdict would be guilty and that no one would simply let the most important “sovereign criminals” go home.

At the Geneva talks, promises need to be turned into documents Despite previous peace statements by Tbilisi, Sukhumi and Tskhinvali, the 14th round of Geneva consultations on security in the Caucasus, which began today after the armed conflict in 2008, promises to be tense.

The President of Latvia will not take a Russophobe minister to Moscow At the end of this week, Latvian President Valdis Zatlers (pictured) is coming to Russia. He will visit Moscow and St. Petersburg, his visit will last until December 22.

Israel's survival as a state depends on its leadership The conference held recently in Malta, organized by RIA Novosti jointly with the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences within the framework of the international discussion club “Valdai”, was devoted to discussing models of Middle East settlement and scenarios for the development of the situation in the region.

Business does not want to pay for the state's ambitions In 2011, the Ministry of Finance intends to take new steps to increase the fiscal burden on the economy. In particular, most small businesses will be deprived of the opportunity to use the single tax on imputed income (UTII) and the simplified taxation system. It is possible to complete work on a unified real estate tax, as well as revise all tax benefits.

The Ruri region summed up the results of the European project-2010 The honorary title of the cultural capital of Europe, the role of which was given to the Ruri region of Germany by the end of this year, the Turkish Istanbul and the Hungarian stove, since 2011 crosses the Baltic duet-the Finnish Turk and Estonian Tallinn.