A photo in the yard What did we know about peaceful life? Nothing. All we knew was war, as we grew up as its children and we had nothing to compare it with. The pictured on the photo are my playmates: Alik Latinsky, Valya Karavaev, Borya...

Within this relatively short period the specialists from the first Russian specialized clinic have brought to life hundreds of patients with leukemia. That’s the achieved result, the yesterday that one can be proud of. However, there are...

A day before the anniversary of the terrorist attack on America the media burst with another, scientific, sensation. In the middle of Europe a testing launch had been made of the most powerful accelerator ever – the Big hadron collider...

Surface, Air: chronicle of plane crash 14 September, 02:12 a.m. Boeing 737-500, the flight 821, making the route Moscow-Perm, left Sheremetevo at 1:12 a.m. Moscow time. There were 82 passengers and 6 crew members on board; captain, second...

On Tuesday there was an attack made on Miloslav Bitokov, the editor-in-chief of the weekly “Gazeta Yuga”. The incident happened in the city of Nalchik in Kabardino-Balkaria. The attack was done at 7:30 p.m. in a block of flats where three...

We continue building up a collective portrait of the Russian citizen jointly with the leading sociologists from Levada Center: Director of the Center Lev Gudkov; chief of the social and political research department Boris Dubin; chief of...

30 August could have been a 50th anniversary of our observer Anna Politkovskaya. She lived one year less than her favorite poet Marina Tsvetaeva, who wrote once in a letter to Boris Pasternak “stricken with lightnings … yet you must live”....

On Saturday a few ecological activists staying in a campground of the Khimky forest defenders got detained by the Khimky UVD. Three activists – Alexei Gusenkov, Lyudmila Fedotova and Serafima Naumycheva – were brought to the police station...

Every year Russia is getting less attractive for foreigners, tourists above all. The volumes of incoming tourism have been decreasing significantly last five years: in 2003 3.1 million of tourists visited the country, while in 2007 the...

The editorial board of Novaya Gazeta has got in touch repeatedly with the Catholicos-Patriarch, his Holiness Elijah II. “Stop the bloodshed!” This is the meaning of what he said to us. Complying with our request, Elijah II has sent to us...

Academician Chazov has a reputation of the Kremlin’s doctor who has signed more than one medical necrologues for General Secretaries of the Communist Party. One of them, it was Yuri Andropov, asked him once (Mr. Chazov was then the head of...

Elena Demidova with two under-aged children lives in a hall of residence that is being demolished. Elena used to work for Yuzhzelenhoz enterprise, which gave her a room. However, in 2006 the enterprise was sold to OOO RogSibAl. The new...

Remarkable tragicomic actor Mikhail Pugovkin died in the age of 85. He is the people’s actor in the literal sense. Without him a number of soviet-time famous films would have been just different. The actor had been ill with diabetes for...

Yesterday the public was made aware of the fact that a big hole has been dug under Zaikonospassky monastery on Nikolskaya Street, just 10 meters away from the Kremlin. The ditch was dug secretly by OOO Stargrad. The director of Stargrad...

1 April this year was 15th anniversary of Novaya Gazeta. Shortly before that, some of our celebrities – sportsmen, politicians, film directors, and musicians – had handed us unique things. Vladislav Tretyak contributed a jersey and a...