http://www.novayagazeta.ru Copyright: 2005 © ÀÍÎ ÐÈÄ «ÍÎÂÀß ÃÀÇÅÒÀ» http://www.novayagazeta.ru/i/logo-en.png http://www.novayagazeta.ru http://www.novayagazeta.ru/society/50522.html The clear lack of desire to find at least some words of sympathy for an entire nation mourning over Havel's death is a perfect example of the moral impurity of the group of people who for some reason decided that they are the state. The horror of it all, however, is that it's as if they are maintaining their silence on behalf of us as well. Now, what's left for us is to remember, speak and act. Renaming Bolotnaya Square in honour of Václav Havel could be the first step down this road... Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:58:00 +0400 Society http://www.novayagazeta.ru/society/50522.html http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/50520.html The President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev sits down with Novaya Gazeta Editor-in-Chief Dmitry Muratov Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:36:00 +0400 Politics http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/50520.html http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/50678.html Talk online about the Constitution is taking people away from the slogan of fighting for honest elections to the slogan of being against the country’s autocratic government. People are now speaking out not just against United Russia and Putin, but against the constitutionally enshrined institutional system that has made the phenomenon that is Putin possible. So what is being proposed in place of the “autocratic government”? Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:32:00 +0400 Politics http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/50678.html http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/50685.html This is the election campaign platform of our Tsar, our father, the man who allocates everything to everyone himself. This is the manual operation platform. As Putin’s Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov admitted, there’s a reason why the prime minister put the platform together in writing. Staying in line with this logic, he is going to take care of civil servants and retirees, his backbone of support, with his own two hands... Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:51:00 +0400 Politics http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/50685.html http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/50521.html Medvedev invites “active people” to his “open” office, while civil society replies that it’s too late for that. It’s you that should come meet us... Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:54:00 +0400 Politics http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/50521.html http://www.novayagazeta.ru/investigations/50805.html Dmitry Medvedev backed Vladimir Putin’s burst of enthusiasm for fighting corruption in state companies. In the best case scenario, will find out the outcome of this order only after the 4 March elections. Meanwhile, the fight against corruption, it seems, is going to become a part of presidential candidate Putin’s election campaign rhetoric... Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:21:00 +0400 Investigations http://www.novayagazeta.ru/investigations/50805.html http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/50814.html The political reforms that President Dmitry Medvedev has announced and that have now been outlined in two pieces of legislation already presented to the State Duma are the chief reply of the “government” to the demands of the “angrycitizens.” By protesting against rigged elections, the people are demanding what in the end people demand from authoritarian regimes: political rights. What did this reply consist of exactly? Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:42:00 +0400 Politics http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/50814.html http://www.novayagazeta.ru/columns/50803.html Within a month and a half since the Bolotnaya Square protest, Vladimir Putin has made, as I see it, one devastating, but inevitable, mistake: he opened his mouth. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:09:00 +0400 Columns http://www.novayagazeta.ru/columns/50803.html http://www.novayagazeta.ru/arts-and-sports/50804.html 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 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:13:00 +0400 Arts and Sports http://www.novayagazeta.ru/arts-and-sports/50804.html http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/50806.html We won’t even address the fairness of those suspicions of Prokhorov being a spoiler candidate, only a much more significant one than Dmitry Mezentsev. But not the whole electorate of Yavlinsky is ready to vote for Prokhorov, Mironov or Zyuganov. Many of them just won’t go vote at all, and a low voter turn-out that increases Putin’s chances of winning without having a run-off election... Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:27:00 +0400 Politics http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/50806.html http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/51022.html For some reason, Vladimir Putin’s electoral rating published by the Levada Centre (37%) is thought to be catastrophically low. And yet it is the highest mark since at least July 2011, when a mere 23% of respondents said they would vote for Putin... Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:52:00 +0400 Politics http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/51022.html http://www.novayagazeta.ru/arts-and-sports/51025.html 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... Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:16:00 +0400 Arts and Sports http://www.novayagazeta.ru/arts-and-sports/51025.html http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/51026.html December 2011 saw a change in the social and political situation in Russia. Society has awakened and is declaring its rights. Initially, the authorities had hoped to wait out the protests, but it soon became clear that that would not work and the storm would not just “blow over.” It was necessary to respond. There was probably a temptation to resort to the use of force, as before, but reason has prevailed. The authorities chose instead to maneuver, describing the massive protests as evidence of a mature democracy Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:32:00 +0400 Politics http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/51026.html http://www.novayagazeta.ru/business/51030.html Assuming that the tour lasted for two weeks and that the campaigners took two flights a day, spending about four hours in the air, while for the rest of the day the jet was stationed in a heated hangar, the expenditures would total 13.5 million roubles. And this amount includes the jet costs only. There’s no doubt that the total cost of the tour was much higher. Where did the money come from? Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:04:00 +0400 Business http://www.novayagazeta.ru/business/51030.html http://www.novayagazeta.ru/columns/50817.html This is history taking revenge for Boris Yeltsin having picked Putin as his successor. I am confident that Zyuganov didn’t even think of making a come back this way, riding the momentum of a boomerang emblazoned in national patterns and decorated with Stalin’s enormous portrait. Twelve years under Putin has brought the voter to this point. But it’s not as if Putin came to us from a well. He came from Russian history... Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:47:00 +0400 Columns http://www.novayagazeta.ru/columns/50817.html http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/51028.html Granted, Putin has been working hard all these years. No, not like a "galley slave". But, for example, on the the mysterious Olympia yacht, allegedly presented by Roman Abramovich. So now Putin and his entourage are protecting not an abstract power, but a way of life that is unparalleled anywhere else in the world. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:18:00 +0400 Politics http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/51028.html http://www.novayagazeta.ru/society/51029.html It is not easy to diagnose the current situation. Can we now say that a political crisis has been triggered by the appearance of the people known on the web as i-Decembrists? No, because the question of power is not at stake yet. Is it a social crisis? No. In effect what we are witnessing is a crisis of expectations. In terms of the new political economy, it is a crisis of the social contract... Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:22:00 +0400 Society http://www.novayagazeta.ru/society/51029.html http://www.novayagazeta.ru/photos/51018.html Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:27:00 +0400 Photostories http://www.novayagazeta.ru/photos/51018.html http://www.novayagazeta.ru/columns/51021.html When I look at societies that are confused, benighted and dysfunctional – like Arab society and, alas, the Russian one – I am saddened to observe a phenomenon I would describe as “pointless discussions.” A pointless discussion takes place when an influential group that seeks to preserve its weight imposes on society a patently idiotic discussion. Everybody begins to discuss: “Is the Earth round or flat? Let’s have a discussion.” “Is it proper to go to the American Embassy? Let’s argue about it.” Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:28:00 +0400 Columns http://www.novayagazeta.ru/columns/51021.html http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/51135.html 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 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:28:00 +0400 Politics http://www.novayagazeta.ru/politics/51135.html