For the past 23 of his 93 years Aydzava-san has been travelling to Russia to fight the Russian historical amnesia

Oleg ORLOV: Memorial's hard line: disregard illegal laws

Vozhd must be convicted for crimes not subject to the statute of limitation such as crimes against humanity, treason, extremism and terrorism

Geliana Sokolnikova: No daughter of enemies of the people

It was officially sanctioned and recommended as investigative technique 75 years ago, in 1937

2012 is the year of Nikolai Vavilov, his 125th anniversary. How they arrested and killed the great scientist

The first European football championship took place in 1955. The Germans and Russians had the longest bench

It is not easy to diagnose the current situation. Can we now say that a political crisis has been triggered by the appearance of the people known on the web as i-Decembrists? No, because the question of power is not at stake yet. Is it a social crisis? No. In effect what we are witnessing is a crisis of expectations. In terms of the new political economy, it is a crisis of the social contract...

The clear lack of desire to find at least some words of sympathy for an entire nation mourning over Havel's death is a perfect example of the moral impurity of the group of people who for some reason decided that they are the state. The horror of it all, however, is that it's as if they are maintaining their silence on behalf of us as well. Now, what's left for us is to remember, speak and act. Renaming Bolotnaya Square in honour of Václav Havel could be the first step down this road...

Novaya Gazeta special correspondent Elena Kostyuchenko reports from the rebellious Kazakh prairie: Zhanaozen, or just Uzen, is a city home to 100 thousand people in the Mangystau Province of Western Kazakhstan. The province is believed to be the most expensive and unhealthy to live in throughout all of Kazakhstan, while Zhanaozen is considered to be the most expensive and unhealthy city in the province...

In the Vologda Region, United Russia received 33% of the vote, and that’s keeping in mind that it’s a stable, conservative and quiet place. This number didn’t surprise me one bit, since I already had a good understanding of how people from my hometown were feeling. After meeting with Surkov the other day, Vologda Governor Pozgalyov told it like it is: “What do you want? We had fair elections...”

The drug police send grocers to a high-security prison for 13, 10 and five and a half years... several episodes of direct “sales” were registered in the case: when drug addicts supposedly bought poppy seeds from the tent to use as drugs; however, later during the trial, none of the “drug addicts” were presented.

When those low-down police took Semeiko, Aleksandr couldn’t take it anymore. He recalls, “I ran down the hall of the dormitory and knocked on all the doors: “Hey, everyone, get up”. All this injustice made me so livid that I decided that we are to barricade the entrance ways to the dormitory, declare a hunger strike and hold a siege until the city prosecutor arrives. Or until they kick out that local policeman…”

Narcissus and Christopher is a play about “a different person”, as they are called here. “Special people” also act in the production: they are diagnosed with “autism”, “Down syndrome”, mental illnesses and mental retardation. The studio they work in integrates both actors with and without these diagnoses...

Meeting a collection of Russian dissidents in Union Square in Manhattan on a crisp October day, who speak openly and honestly about their home country, certainly can get adrenaline pumping. Billed as a protest against the rise of Vladimir Putin’s attempts to reassume duties as Russian president, these protesters in New York were strident in their views and clever in their derision of Russia’s oligarchic personalities...