It often happens that dogmatic statements, such as “society no longer has any moral authorities”, are easily shot down by opinion poll findings. These demonstrate: there are authorities, and first among them is Boris Akunin. But in the...

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With no goals, no passes, no dribbling, no tackles, he might as well not be playing at all. He’s no trouble to the opposing team, and his own teammates don’t notice him. But spectators, analysts and reporters do notice. The crowds boo every movement of the Russian national team’s captain, analysts advise selling him as quickly as possible and reporters dismiss him...

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 country is at the juncture between Asia and Europe, the plate under us vibrates, turning some of us into predators and others into angels...

The Lives of Extraordinary People series of books adds to its ranks “Dostoevsky” by Lyudmila Saraskina. The 20th century is a very recent memory, and you cannot understand it without Dostoevsky’s formula that he came up with while at a hard-labour camp: “Man grows used to everything”...

Both the executioner and the victims – that's all us, just us, and it's up to us to work it out. An artist from Krasnoyarsk managed to demonstrate it

The Innovation state prize in contemporary art was awarded at the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture on Thursday evening. The ceremony was controversial long before it was even held as two major political projects were on the short...

In six matches (seven counting the Russia Cup), the main trouble maker, a spring-time transfer market sensation, has yet to win more than one. On top of that, it has been more than 40 days since that one victory against Volga. Now the Anzhi football club, with its sights set on the Champions League, is risking not even placing in the top eight...

The famous playwright - about the dangers of re-writing of Tolstoy

The tears came dripping down: Fetisov is leaving hockey! He didn’t come to terms with the system and cannot exist in an atmosphere where anything and everything is corrupt. He has almost switched over to the opposition and is a ready-made candidate for filling the ranks, scary to say, of adversaries of the regime! But he is not a noble hero

Women, imprisoned mostly on drug-related charges, occupy Perm prison #32. Their crimes range using drugs, selling drugs and murder – because of fairytale “drug dreams” and “cartoons” that they watch out of hopelessness and despair. Now they draw cartoons themselves in 3D. There are 18 of them. Someone is occupied with the fence, and by the end of the day it should be just like a real one, with all the splinters and nails to go with it...

There were no high hopes on the eve of the biathlon championship in Yugorsk in Khanty-Mansiisk (see Novaya Gazeta No.22, 2 March 2011), but reality was worse than the gloomiest forecasts: our squad was lucky to place sixth (the male team...

I gave a lot of thought to the post-empirical space and understood that it’s not going to be all that easy. I knew that the empire was falling apart even as I was inside it, roaming around it. Empire and the USSR are not exactly synonyms, or they aren’t synonyms at all. You cannot, however, forget about this space: three generations were spent on it.

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...