Novaya Gazeta

But now, with Tymoshenko cornered, the likelihood that a political bomb will go off in Manhattan has gone up drastically. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich and his allies cannot but take into account this possibility, which is why they are taking several muddled steps to decriminalise the articles in the criminal code that are being used to charge Tymoshenko...

So we have started losing them. A lot of them - all over the world. Three GLONASS satellites were lost on 5 December. A Geo-IK-2 geodetic military satellite was lost on 1 February. The Express-AM4 space satellite was lost on 18 August. On 24 August, the M-12M Progress met with an accident while being launched by the Soyuz-U booster rocket and was destroyed...

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...

The Lives of Extraordinary People series of books adds to its ranks “Dostoevsky” by Lyudmila Saraskina. The 20th century is a very recent memory, and you cannot understand it without Dostoevsky’s formula that he came up with while at a hard-labour camp: “Man grows used to everything”...

Novaya Gazeta learned that those travelling in the Volkswagen were the wife of the interior minister and her friend, a high-ranking employee in the investigation agencies. They were taken to the hospital with minor injuries along with the driver... “There is no criminal case”, say