Excerpts from school essays collected by teacher Elvira GORYUKHINA in Chechnya during the First War I wandered around the “hot spots” without any official documents. I had my own techniques for different “hot spots”. For Chechnya, an impeccable pass: Leo Tolstoy’s story “HadzhiMurat” and the works of my students based on this immortal work. These essays gave me access to any school in Chechnya - Grozny, Samashki, Davydenko, Bamut, Achkhoy-Martan.

THE DEATH OF THE SUBMARINE "KURSK" AND ITS CREW BECAME THE LONGEST INVESTIGATION IN "NOVAYA GAZETA" AUGUST 2000 DEATH - DATE 12 On August 2000, in the Barents Sea, during complex combat training of ships of the Northern Fleet, a disaster occurred on the nuclear submarine Kursk. The first explosion sounded at 11 hours 28 minutes, at the very moment when the submarine was preparing to fire a practical (without warhead) hydrogen peroxide torpedo 65-76 “KIT”.

She was beautiful. And over the years she only became more beautiful. Do you know why? But we simply first receive our face from God as a preparation, and then we make it ourselves. The way we live. They also say: in maturity, the soul begins to appear on the face. Her soul is beautiful. She was feminine. She knew how to laugh charmingly at a good joke and cry at injustice. But she perceived any injustice - in relation to anyone - as a personal enemy.

Sex for money on the highway. Personnel, clients, prices. Our correspondents Elena Kostyuchenko and Anna Artemyeva (photo) spent the night at a roadside brothel We woke up around five in the evening. But Vika didn’t sleep at all—she lay on the floor in the kitchen and talked to Andrei. Andrey is sitting in a zone not far from the regional center. To reach him, Vika stole the phone from the sleeping Nina. “He came to the point,” Vika tells me her love story. - Took me for two hours.

Novaya Gazeta columnist Elena MASYUK recorded this interview over the phone in April last year, when Boris Nemtsov was undergoing treatment in an Israeli clinic. We didn't print it then. But we are publishing it today because now it sounds like a prediction that has come true. — The banner “Fifth Column: Strangers Among Us,” which recently appeared on Novy Arbat, personally identified the very “fifth column” that President Putin spoke about in March in his Address to the Federal Assembly.

THE WAR WAS STARTED IN A FEW HOURS BY ONE PERSON. THE PATH TO PEACE WILL BE A TEST FOR EACH OF US Kirill MARTYNOV, "New" War is a crime. Ukraine is not the enemy. Russia will pay a heavy price for the choices Putin has made. While bombs were falling on Ukraine early in the morning of February 24, especially gloomy people were driving to work in the Moscow metro. There was no jubilation from the sudden war.

Why can't we inform the reader about what's really happening in Ukraine? In other times, these pages of Novaya Gazeta would have contained details about the progress of Russia’s “special military operation” on the territory of Ukraine. But now this is actually prohibited quickly and without discussion by the adopted amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and other laws and regulations.