Strangers at the door “I told her at once: ‘Mom, do not open the door to strangers’,” says nine-year-old Liza. “And Sasha wanted to open the door! She is such a child!” “I won’t do it again,” says Sasha slowly. She is four. The strangers...

Last week, everyone was discussing the lessons taught by the Jasmine revolutions, especially that in Egypt. Liberal partisans threatened their opponents with the inevitability of democracy, whereas the henchmen of tyranny intimidated their...

Even though his official vacation is long over, he is still not back from Krasnaya Polyana. Though, well-informed sources told me that Alexander Lukashenko was staying on at the resort on some important business. Dmitry Medvedev and...

Defence Committee Chairman Viktor Zavarzin submitted a bill in January proposing to extend the spring conscription from three to five months, the term for transfer to the reserve after discharge to be increased to five months, and the time...

Russian Healthcare and Social Development Minister Tatiana Golikova spoke at a recent government meeting about the initial results of the implementation of the country’s demographic policy concept. I should note right away that these...

The inhabitants of the Zhandat and Nikolskoye villages of the Uyarsky district of the Kranoyarsk region must take care of their health like never before. The poor villagers simply cannot afford to fall ill. Unlike many other settlements in...

Nikolay Protsenko was born 09 November 2007, in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, but his parents’ joy soon turned into despair as shortly after birth he was diagnosed with a rare metabolic disorder (Ornithine Transcarbamylase (OTS) Deficiency), and...

Yesterday, Friday 23 January, Moscow said farewell to Anastasia Baburova. The ceremony was held at 10.30 am in the hall set aside for such purposes at the capital’s Central Clinical Hospital. Those who came to say goodbye to Nastya were...

At his family’s request, there were no speeches at Stanislav’s funeral on Friday, 23 January. The Ostankino graveyard was filled with a taciturn crowd. Tears and whispers ... The kiosk sold out of flowers. Those who had come to say a last...

Nastya Baburova rang me sometime in mid-October last year. “Can I come to the paper to work?” “Of course. What’s up? Did they sack you?” “No, it’s just I want to be somewhere you can write normally ...” It was then that we began to hear...

On 19 January in the centre of Moscow Anastasia Baburova, a journalist with Novaya gazeta, and the lawyer Stanislav Markelov were shot dead. The killer stood behind them and aimed at the back of the head. He had no reason to fear. Not one...

Andrei Sakharov’s widow Yelena Bonner, now elderly and unwell, wrote a characteristically defiant and passionate appeal. Solzhenitsyn expressed a deeply heartfelt sorrow at the death of Sakharov in 1989: “I mourn an irreplaceable loss”....

In her last apartment Anna’s only companion was a large but “very friendly” dog. Here in an article published in the first full-colour edition of Novaya gazeta in September 2005 (reprinted in the commemorative 12 October issue) she...

The family of Anna Politkovskaya and the editors of Novaya gazeta have been deeply moved by the words and actions of all who came to say farewell to Anna, and by the messages from thousands of our fellow citizens and personal letters from...

After a comment from the World Newspaper Association, ”an NGO uniting more than 18,000 publications worldwide” there follows a tribute by Russia’s senior human rights activist Sergei Kovalyov to Anna’s “inconvenient” character. Next the...