The “Energy” Corporation has formed a panel enquiring the circumstances of the descent of Soyuz TMA-11. This has been the second successive case when the landing manned module passed the atmosphere in the free fall mode nearly down to the...

Investigation of Igor Domnikov’s murder has been going on for 8 years. All this time it sways from side to side. The killers and organizers – members of Tagiryanov’s criminal group - were sentenced for life and for long terms. This...

Who organizes it Last week Dmitriy Dovgiy, the suspended chief of the Investigative department at the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor General’s Office, gave an interview to “Izvestia” newspaper where he made a “sensational”...

The scandalous case of Tri Kita (fittingly, Three Whales) has grown out long ago of the frames of usual large-scale furniture contraband. It was accompanied with a series of murders, attempts and threats. The peak of those crimes was in...

20 March the investigator from the prosecutor office of the Western District of Moscow (WDM) M.Petrov informed the Novaya Gazeta editorial board that it had been refused for the third time to start a criminal case on the fact of death of...

The criminal case of Alisher Trifonov (Nazmiev), a false general of intelligence service, may cause a scandal involving the high ranking officials from the Russian special services. Having connections in the defense ministry, FSB and...

Three weeks ago Novaya Gazeta published a material about Alexander Novikov who had asked for political asylum in Denmark, making a confession that he had been an FSB agent working just for 8,000 rubles per month. He was implanted to United...

It has been one and a half year since the publication date of the report by Yuri Savelyev titled “Beslan. The Truth By The Hostages”. The first part of the report presents a scrupulous analysis of the testimony by the hostages; also the...

Viktor But, charged by the US and Thailand with organization of illegal arms delivery for FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia), must be given his specific sense of humor and special loyalty to his business partners. According...

Russian businessman Viktor But was arrested last week in Thailand. US authorities and UN experts accuse him of executing mass illegal arms deliveries. In 2005 the US finance ministry froze the assets and passed to the UN Committee for...

The sentence for ex-minister of nuclear industry Evgeny Adamov was read during two days in the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow. He is accused of fraud and office abuse. Other accused are former Director of Troitsky Institute of innovation...

Alexander Novikov, 36, appeared in Denmark at the end of January this year. First he came to Finland and applied to the Red Cross, and a few days later he got to the refugee camp near Copenhagen. A week later he came to the office of...

The epic of Global Navigational Satellite System, or GLONASS, that has been lasting for many years, alternating triumphant reports with scandals and disappointments, is a wild mixture of the old tales about Left-hander the Master and the...

All the armies in the world develop their weapons being confined within the laws of nature. As a result, the artillery systems and the bombers, made by the adversaries under conditions of top secrecy, often resemble one another, causing...

Kidnappings of big businessmen are in again in Russia. And now it’s not criminal groups, but special services officers who order and perform such crimes. The case of kidnapping Sergei Shpigotsky is remarkable evidence. To get money out of...