An American millionaire Lu Bantle, 79, and 430 sober alcoholics from 27 Russian towns got together recently in a village of Peryakiulya near St Petersburg. They were having a good time and they enjoyed it, they hugged one another, they...

Tuesday night the ceremony was held of presentation 7th Award named after Artem Borovik, instituted by the charitable fund after Artem Borovik. Artem’s father, Genrikh Borovik, a famous writer of political essays, is the chair of the...

It’s victims themselves of the various terrorists acts who organized the unofficial meeting acting through their public organizations Voice of Beslan, Nord-Ost, and Volga-Don. The relatives of those killed in two exploded planes in 2004...

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...

Vasily Vasilyevich, MoscowGood day! I am calling Anna. I would like to leave her a message.Anya! One can’t but admire you. I suffered because of Chekochikhin and then this happened. Probably your name will not be given to a star or a...

After catastrophe happened in the Kerch Strait, Ukrainian transport and communication minister Nikolai Rudkovsky said that Russian seamen ignored the nine storm warnings by the Kerch port. He also assumed that captains of the Russian ships...

June this year vice-mayor of Ekaterinburg Vladimir Tungusov, driving his Mercedes, ran into Nadejda Semyonova, 50, a resident of Ekaterinburg. The woman lives near a cottage village of the local officials and businessmen. That day she went...

Last year there was a big scandal about the History Teacher’s Guide titled “History of Russia in 1945-2007” written by a certain Filippov who turned Stalin into an “effective manager” and explained necessity of the “sovereign democracy”....

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...

After a few months it turned out that he had decided to stay in America. In 2008 he began to speak: The book titled “Comrade Jean” (that was Tretyakov’s call in FIS) by journalist Peter Early has been published recently being based on the...

North Ossetia is still one of the unrest regions of the country. In Prigorodny district and in the capital, Vladikavkaz, people still disappear. 18 people have lost during last two years out of them 5 people were lost during last 2 months....

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...

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...

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...