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: