It’s Thursday, two days until the gay pride parade. We’re sitting at a café near Tverskaya Street. There are five of us: the photographer and I, Lyosha, Abu and Tim. Tim has a pretty, feminine face, but masculine manners, gestures and...

A senior official spoke of the unprecedented exodus from Russia in the late 2000s for the first time. Back in January, Accounts Chamber Chairman Sergei Stepashin cited the following figure: 1.25 million members of the economically active...

We are publishing herein the blog post of LiveJournal user yeenzo in its original format, without changes to spelling or punctuation: My first week in one of the Mecca’s of Russian statehood – the State Duma of the Russian Federation – has...

The Heroine. She appears deceptively soft and feminine. But Yelena Alshanskaya is a strong-willed, tough person learning to be soft “because our work doesn’t call for toughness”. “Who are you?” I ask, sitting in her kitchen. “Oh, what a...

In Minsk, a meeting between Novaya Gazeta special correspondent Irina Khalip and her husband, former Belarusian presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov, has been cancelled. Irina obtained permission for the meeting on Tuesday, a day after...

The latest story about Sasha Stepanov who got lost and was luckily found in the Mozhaisk District was a real eye-opener. There is an eternity between myself as the journalist writing this article about a lost child and me making my way...

The time approached when I had to submit my Kia Sportage, nicknamed Fedya in the family, for a periodic motor vehicle inspection. On the previous occasion two years ago I had to spend five hours in a queue on NagatinskayaNaberezhnaya. This...

Can you imagine a government in which the head of the healthcare system is friends with a major drug dealer? In which drugs that are guaranteed to kill a person in two years and irreversibly alter their brains immediately are sold in...

About a million people are languishing in jails and prison camps in Russia. In this new series, however, we will turn the spotlight not on those on the inside, but on those on the outside waiting for them. What happens to the wives in the...

Vladimir Vladimirovich (Putin), dear friends,At long last the Ministry of Healthcare has engaged in a direct conversation with us, something we all have long been waiting for. Of course, this is not yet a congress of Russian doctors, but...

Johnny Depp, Vanessa Paradis, Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith, Omar Sharif, Michele Placido, Catherine Zeta-Jones and husband and other stars will soon put on yet another charity concert in Russia, business and showman Vladimir Kiselyov...

It’s late March 2011. Urgent repairs are being made to the most damaged sections of the main road leading from the Dityatka checkpoint inside the 30-kilometre exclusion zone and similar repairs are under way in the city of Chernobyl. At...

“…On approaching the ground as I was landing, I noticed a field camp to my right… Further along, there was a creek in a gully… I did not feel the exact moment when I landed. Before I knew it, I was already up on my feet.”“…I reached the...

A Sham “Investigation” A number of points need to be made about Ms. Osipova’s article “WANTED!”, which was published on March 14, 2011, in issue no. 26 of Novaya Gazeta: Ms. Osipova claims that she sent questions to an email address listed...

The emergency workers’ base at Japan’s Fukushima-1 Nuclear Power Plant has spread into a separate blocky building with thick concrete walls that are specially built to withstand even the most powerful earthquake. The building’s few windows...