Q: It is common to mark out periods in poets’ creativity: early or late, sometimes matured. What do you think of your own periods? A: It’s difficult for a poet to speak about one’s own periods. In my youth, for example, I had a period of...

The action “Chistye nogi” (fittingly, “clean feet”), started by Novaya Gazeta and National Bookmaker Association (NBA) last year, got international recognition. Reminding, during the season of 2007 the newspaper working jointly with the...

I refused for long the arguments by Vitaly Mutko stating that the level of Russian football is increasing year by year. Damn it, but he is really right! Our national team will take part in European Cup 2008; Zenith has got to the UEFA CUP...

Boris Strugazky, the junior of the two famous brothers, the famous writer, the highest and indisputable authority in Russian and probably in the world fiction novel genre, celebrated his 75th anniversary on 15 April. He graduated with...

“Look, if I wrote about Gia Kancheli that he is a genius, would it be ok?” I asked Georgy Danelia. “Simply genius?” “Yes”. “He will get hurt”. “And what about calling him a ‘talented genius’?” Danelia looks through his window that gives a...

Novaya Gazeta and Oleg Zhuravsky, the executive director of the National Association of Bookmakers renew our action titled “Fair Play”. Reminding, on Thursdays, a few days before the next round we shall be monitoring the integrity of the...

At the end of the last week it was finally decided who the boss in the Russian hockey is. The joint statement by Vladislav Tretyak, the head of the Russian Hockey Federation (RHF), and Alexander Medvedev, the top manager of Gazprom and one...

The Malevich Hotel instead of Malevich the artist? The list of raider’s seizure and attempts for seizure of the cultural objects in Moscow is just amazing. Most prestigious and famous places of the capital are present there. The new plot...

It became clear at the end of the last week that the argument about further development of the Russian hockey can only be settled with full and final elimination of one of the conflicting parties – Russian Hockey Federation (RHF)...

13 March the Khimky football club was awarded with the “Stainless Ball” Prize put up by Novaya Gazeta and National Association of Bookmakers (NAB) for the fair play in the season of 2007. Novaya Gazeta kept up the column “Clean Feet”...

The display of photographs by a well-known Russian journalist, observer of Novaya Gazeta, Yuri Rost has started at the Exhibit Room of the Hague’s town hall. The exhibition is themed with ecological issues our planet is facing and is...

Russian hockey has been sent to different directions within the interval of 2 days. First, deputy chair of the board of Gazprom, Alexander Medvedev, announced at a briefing, held in the Gazprom office, that basic documents would be signed...

Do you remember that song to Andrei Voznesensky’s lyrics: old familiar numbers are dialed by itself from 1-13 January of the year? Unfortunately, some of the numbers will never respond again. And so, when celebrating the Old New Year we...

Actually, the like-mindedness, introduced in modern Russia, makes it possible only one thought: how to survive in the circumstances suggested by the regime? Naum Nim, editor-in-chief of the magazine “Dosye na Tsenzuru” (File on...

Anti-glam Stalker turned out to be one of the last territories of freedom under the Russian circumstances of the present day. The words by general producer of the forum, Igor Stepanov, sound extremely topical today: “Observance of our...