Novaya Gazeta

Prokhorov is coming roaring back on his Yo-Mobil into big time Russian politics, and this time he is a presidential candidate. And even if he himself came up with this idea, no one believes in the pure and voluntary nature of his intent. Much more serious hints are being made that Alexei Kudrin, the long-time keeper of liberal economic traditions, will be jumping into politics. And not through the higher levels of power, but from the bottom up...

Sergei Polonsky declared a hunger strike stemming from the raid on the Kutuzovsky Mile development project, and it has become a bottomless pit of Internet folklore. He brought a wealth of attention to himself by swearing profusely, lying under the wheels of a truck and demanding that “Arkady” come...

Novaya Gazeta special correspondent Elena Kostyuchenko reports from the rebellious Kazakh prairie: Zhanaozen, or just Uzen, is a city home to 100 thousand people in the Mangystau Province of Western Kazakhstan. The province is believed to be the most expensive and unhealthy to live in throughout all of Kazakhstan, while Zhanaozen is considered to be the most expensive and unhealthy city in the province...

I would even hope that people would go home still thinking about the film. Let them reject it and berate the director. But let them think. Think how we can go on living together like human beings...

Our investigation focused on several offshore companies with turnover exceeding one billion dollars. The bank transactions we obtained show that money was transferred to the accounts of these offshore companies from Russia, the United States, the UK, New Zealand, China and Ukraine among others. We attribute these links to the fact that criminals from all over the world use the same technologies...