It turns out that there is much in common between gas and perfumery. The businessman Dmitry Firtash, who controls 45% of Russian-Ukrainian gas mediator RosUkrEnergo, also owns the Hungarian trader, Euronit Kereskedelmi ES Szolgaltalo KTF....

Igor Domnikov was slain in 2000. In 2007 the killers and organizers of that crime – members of Tagiryanov’s gang –were sentenced to life and other long terms. We told in details about the court proceedings that were held in Kazan. However,...

State gas business exists on two levels: the official one, that is on the surface, with its gas pipelines, huge projects and strategic tasks; and the one which is not advertised. The latter level lies deeper and has numerous and...

Russia’s governmental workers are not used to be accountable to the community. Even most open and democratically disposed among them do not consider it justified the interest to the activity by and wealth of their families. Novaya Gazeta...

Just before the New Year the honest Swiss citizens noted some abnormality: something grandiose, not just a villa, is being constructed in the resort town of Villar sur Ollon. Three storeys over the mountain slope and more six storeys in...

The big plot, situated at the corner of Leninsky Boulevard and Miklukho-Maklai Street, is surrounded with a high metal fence. There are a few old building wagons and a pile of metal pipes behind the fence. The construction of Federal...

Manana Aslamazyan, the head of Educated Media (legal successor of Internews), engaged in the educational programs for media workers, may be placed in the international wanting list. It was informed by the head of liquidation panel of the...

The Investigative committee at the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation has attached additional 5,000 pages of financial documentation and records of evidence to the case against former owners of YUKOS, Mikhail Khodorkovsky and...

Kafil Amirov, the Prosecutor of the Republic of Tatarstan, told in respond to Novaya Gazeta about closing of the criminal case against the Kazan journalist Natalia Petrova and her parents Gennady Petrov and Nina Petrova. The decision was...

Imran Gaziev, deputy chief of the Representative Office of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in Azerbaijan, was killed in Baku in November. The killer shot as Gaziev was getting out of his car. The gun was left at the crime...

The joke with Oleg Schwartzman, who reported himself to be acting on behalf of the Kremlin’s families, is getting too long. The 35-year-old businessman appears to be wanting to take back his interview in the Kommersant, but it’s not likely...

Oktyabrsky district court of Grozny City has re-sentenced former police officer from Nizhnevartovsk City Sergei Lapin who is more known under operative call Cadet. Lapin is sentenced to 10 and half years of prison in high security colony...

The lawyer of Andrei Saenko, one of the accused on loud case about furniture contraband, stated that his defendant worked for special services and claimed that due to this fact the trial should be made a close one. Experts’ attitude to the...

There were serious disturbances in two Caucasus Republics of Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria last week. The occasions being different, the reasons were same: people don’t want the militia and FSB to kidnap and kill their sons. Large...

A year ago affairs management department of the president's administration, or AMD, dismantled the unique complex of Middle Trade Rows on the Red Square. Novaya Gazeta supposed then it was a crime. Prominent culture experts, architects and...