The event itself was unprecedented: three priests from the Izhevsk and Udmurtia Diocese recorded a video appeal to Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia in which they openly criticised the head of the Russian Orthodox Church for the...

The story. The Cold War, the military and political standoff and the engineering and design space race between the USSR and the United States, vastly accelerated and dramatised the first manned flight into outer space. History has turned...

Doctor Popov was deep in concentration. Before him the enormous task of curing humanity of haemorrhoids in a short two to three minutes of air time awaited him. To accomplish his task, Popov had personally crawled on his hands and knees...

The picture is now being shown at film festivals (Goldovskaya’s films are currently being reviewed at a film festival in Brazil). Let’s cross our figures that her films will hit the big screen in Russia as well. Russian contemporary...

A sincere and joyful atmosphere prevailed at a charity event in London on Wednesday in honour of the first and last President of the USSR, Nobel Prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev. Undoubtedly, it was a very emotional and positive event. No...

For the last couple of days, the town of Fukushima (the capital of the Fukushima Prefecture) has been covered in fog. Actually, it is not fog – it is a smoke haze hanging over the town and its vicinity. In Japanese horror movies, such a...

In Tokyo, you become immediately aware of the austerity measures. High-speed, commuter and underground trains run at wider intervals. Some escalators have been switched off at some metro stations. There is virtually no outdoor advertising...

Koriyama, a city of a million people located just 50 kilometres west of the Fukushima-1 nuclear plant, is a staging post for evacuation of people from the disaster zone. Approaching Koriyama – we arrived in the city on Thursday – one has...

The locals keep their cool and do not succumb to panic, although the same cannot be said for the tens of thousands of foreigners in Tokyo. They mob the Narita Airport, hang around the booking office and their diplomatic missions demanding...

One of the motives for reducing the conscript-service term was that it would put an end to hazing (dedovshchina) in the army. Summing up the interim results of 2010, however, the Chief Military Prosecutor Sergei Fridinsky said in an...

Putting a new spin on the meaning of philanthropy: a concert featuring Vladimir Putin and Hollywood stars at the Ice Palace in Moscow, an auction and dinner after the concert at a night club, followed by a banquet and dancing at a museum....

On 8-11 December 2010, you all (each in accordance with your individual schedules) participated in the charitable program ‘Believe in a Dream’ organized by the Russian charitable foundation ‘Federation’ in St. Petersburg. Some of you not...

They can do many things, if not everything. They can fly in fighter planes, put out fires and heal tigers. They can play the piano to raise funds for sick children. And they can play football, too. On 9 March at 7:22 am, the Vesti-24...

Novaya Gazeta’s editorial staff, its readers, and contributors are anxiously following the news covering the catastrophic natural disaster in Japan. We are particularly concerned about the people who have had to go though terribly...

Sometimes they return – the heroes of yesterday who altered the course of history. It is so nice that heroes also have anniversary birthday celebrations and even the servile censored television stations have to respond as they suddenly...