Politics
It was clear that with the election approaching all methods of struggling, including juristic ones would be used. It was also obvious that such methods wouldn’t be able to affect Communist Party as the Kremlin is not going to remove it...
Mr Volodin became a kind of guiding example for local politics at the end of the 90’s. That-time governor Ayazkov got rid of the young and energetic assistant kicking him upstairs to Moscow. Afterwards, the opponents came to be members of...
First scandal broke out at the registration stage of the participants of the Duma election. Representatives from Communist party, Patriots of Russia, SPS and Just Russia appealed to the chair of Central Elective Commission, or CEC,...
Investigations
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...
Olga Bobrova, Обозреватель
This year the City of Novosibirsk has got known internationally with two loud criminal cases against researchers suspected of divulgence of a state secret. Oleg Korobeinichev, the chair of laboratory at the Institute of Chemical Kinetics...
Business
Agreement between largest manufacturers and retailers being signed in the end of October, the information comes everyday from the regions telling how local authorities exercise administrative control over the market. Price upper limits for...
Society
I had never had such a feeling of shining whiteness of the hall. I had never seen such a number of doctors at one time. I couldn’t imagine people in white coats can smile so happily and look at the speaking persons so gratefully. I saw no...
“Unprofitably empty” Palace Square in St Petersburg is being hastily developed for commercial purposes. Skating-rink has been arranged just under the Hermitage’s windows. As the project initiators say, it is going to be the largest street...
The chair of Central Elective Commission Vladimir Churov condemned sociologists who publish so called “exit polls” made on the Election Day when people leave the polling stations. The law prohibits publishing data of such exit polls before...
Documentary journalist Natalia Petrova and her family were beaten roughly in Kazan in September 2007. A reservation must be made that this incident has been ascribed with many “truths”. Well, on the whole there are two truths: the one by...
Mikhail Khodorkovsky: “He’s just afraid of competition”
When Putin says that he “never does his friends in,” this is because he is afraid to get on the wrong side of the siloviki who are close to him. From the correspondence between the editors and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, inmate of Correctional Facility 7 of the Federal Penitentiary Service Directorate for the Republic of Karelia, the city of Segezha
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