He is the famous singer poet, the author of a whale of books, songs and lyrics. He is the illustrious oceanologist, academician at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at Moscow University, the author of hundreds academic...

The Association of Researchers of the Russian Society (AIRO-XXI) is celebrating its 15th anniversary and we want to congratulate it on this occasion. We are not only good friends, but we also cooperate effectively. The Association...

I seem to be supposed to respond to a series of the statements made by Chechen colleagues at my address. I do it with reluctance here. Yes, I have made a statement saying I don’t want to belong to any union (including Union of Journalists)...

7 March a meeting was held in the city of Grozny near the Monument to the Killed Journalists where correspondents of the Chechen media condemned strictly Dmitry Muratov, the editor of Novaya Gazeta, and Alexander Minkin, the observer of...

Award after Gerd Buzerius is presented annually by the Zeit fund jointly with Norwegian Fund named Freedom of Speech. This year Viktoria Ivleva, our permanent author is one of the laureates. She was nominated by Norwegian Union of...

Two journalists were bashed in Makhachkala on 29 February. Those attacked are Zaur Gaziev, political observer of the weekly newspaper Svobodnaya Respublika (fittingly, Free Republic), and Ruslan Gabibulin, the TV host of broadcast company...

Last week the lawyers published the statement by the former vice-president of YUKOS Vasily Aleksanyan. This is what he wrote about his guarded treatment in Hospital #60: “…they do not allow me taking a shower which is a standard practice...

Resolution #9 by the information and communication ministry, regulating the procedure of providing special services with access to talks and correspondence by the subscribers, has confirmed finally the victory by special services over...

“Let Morar in Russia!” Such was an appeal that had been supported by 11,471 people in the internet-action by the moment these lines were written. The demand addressed to FSB about letting Natalia Morar cross Russian border also came from...

To Y.Y.Chaika, Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, and V.P.Lukin, Ombudsman Elections of the new President of the Russian Federation were marked with an ominous precedent – that’s invention of a criminal case against a political...

According to interior ministry, today in our country the youth extremist organizations count 10,000 people. The experts say about a figure three times as big. Nationalist-gunmen are concentrated mainly in 5-6 largest Russian cities. The...

Yesterday the officers of passport control of the Domodedovo Airport detained repeatedly the Moldavian citizen Natalia Morar, the correspondent of The New Times magazine, who had come from Kishinev (the capital of Moldavia). Reminding,...

Emergency ministry has a strict gradation of what is to be called incident, accident or catastrophe. No one being dead-eaten by frost in Verkhnekolymsky District of Yakutia, this cannot be called a catastrophe. So how shall we call the...

Since December 2007 there has been no warmth in the settlement of Ugolnoe in Verkhnekolymsky District of the republic of Sakha-Yakutia. The daytime temperature is minus 25 and at nighttime minus 40. The heaters are on in the flats of all...

Monday, Vyacheslav Tkach, 41, the journalist of Komsomolskaya Pravda was found hanging in the forest near Minsk. In the late years, Byelorussian people haven’t believed accidental deaths or suicides. However, the law enforcement agencies...