“The Palace for Putin” on the Black Sea coast, which St Petersburg businessman Sergei Kolesnikov told Novaya Gazeta about in an interview, has been sold. The official owner of the palace was a company belonging to Nikolai Shamalov, a...

The Wildlife Fund states that the Leopard, which, according to the results of the dubious (at least, the President considers it to be such) television voting, has been selected as the Olympic Games mascot, is actually not a Leopard at all,...

Editorial preview Novaya Gazeta is closely following the nonpublic activities of parliamentary parties. As it turns out, undercover activities are much more important than speeches delivered by party bosses in parliament or their voting...

Novaya Gazeta has written before about this car accident, which happened at 23.15 on 31 July 2010 at Km 21 on Kaluzhskoye Shosse and was, mysteriously, never included in the Traffic Police RTA reports. This car crash was such a top secret...

Before press meetings, Behgjet Pacolli’s assistants usually request that journalists learn to pronounce their boss’s name correctly: not Pacolli but Pazzoli. He on the other hand is completely indifferent to such nuances. And not at all...

On Tuesday and Wednesday, 3 and 4 November, the first suspects in the Markelov-Baburova murder case were arrested. The operation was shrouded in secrecy. Investigators had been hard at work, both among nationalist groups and the public as...

First joint investigation by International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and Novaya Gazeta Just a few years ago Russia was a consumer of contraband cigarettes. Now it has been for rather long that this kind of product...

The search in the Spanish villa of Vladislav Reznik, the head of the parliamentary Committee for financial markets, the member of the panel of the general council of United Russia might be considered a provocation against Russia, as Boris...

Sunday evening a substance looking like quicksilver was found in the Karinna Moscalenko’s car who is residing in Strasburg now. “We noticed it by accident: my husband began to clean the inside and saw some balls of metallic color scattered...

Igor was killed 8 years ago. The killers, the members of Tagiryanovskaya gang, who executed this paid murder, were sentenced, while the organizer and mediator were not. The editorial board of Novaya Gazeta has the names of people involved...

The International Federation of Journalists has appealed that all the affiliated unions and associations (counting 600,000 press workers) send messages of solidarity to the participants of the meeting of commemoration of the Novaya Gazeta...

The chief of the investigative group told to a Novaya Gazeta correspondent about the killer, search for those who organized the murder and about completion of the stage of investigation. Q: Has the case been passed to the court? What kind...

Yamadaevs are present to a rather large extent in the building market of Gudermes. At least six firms belong to their family business. They are engaged not only in general construction, but also in trading with building materials, cement...

A lot of versions of Ruslan Yamadaev’s murder is being voiced now. According to one of them, he might have been killed to make his brother Sulim come to Chechnya. Until recently, Sulim Yamadaev was the commander of the Chechen battalion...

Wednesday morning a prisoner Magomed Khamkhoev, the Ingush, escaped from a secret military prison facility situated in a prestigious guarded housing estate named Serebryany Bor. He managed to put his cuffed hands from his back to the...