The art of being a worthy person Oleg Basilashvili. Photo: Yuri Rost / Novaya Gazeta Is art an acquisition? Likely… The Lord has invested some decent capabilities in man. Other lucky ones were given talent (which they set out to find within themselves and justify through effort). And the body of control over its gifts considered it unnecessary, leaving everyone to determine the degree of decency of their stay in the world of other people. (I wanted diversity. Well, others happened...

How does the artist of the world Vladimir Spivakov, who turns 80 on September 12, live? Vladimir Spivakov. Photo: Yuri Rost / Novaya Gazeta Flight to the Caucasus mountains Spivakov says: “You haven’t been to Tbilisi for a long time. And we haven’t been there with “Moscow Virtuosi” for a very long time. Come with us! We are giving one concert. Once upon a time they were well received. Now I don't know. And one more thing: the Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia is soon eighty-five.

May 9 - centenary of the Great Okudzhava Bulat Okudzhava in the hall of the Polytechnic Museum. Photo: Yuri Rost / "New Gazeta" Victory Day we celebrate on his birthday. This is by chance. The war was present in his life, and then in prose and verses. This is natural. Quietly, cordially, without pathos, with humor and talent, he sang his and our lives to us. He offered us solutions that were too good for fierce time. I really love Bulat Shalvovich. Not one.

He does not lose, because he does not seek to win. Memory of a friend Alexander Shirvindt. Photo: Yuri Rost / "New Gazeta" Talent - consumables, mind - is subject to fatigue over the years, charm is also not added from age, kindness is gradually replaced by indifference, love - habit, gift of life - to live with gained skill ... A person fades, tired of spending strength on preserving the image to which the world around us taught. Perhaps you can no longer like to like it anymore.

Memory of George Harabadze, an outstanding Georgian actor and writer, a friend of Novaya Gazeta and our common favorite In this photo, Gogi Harabadze. Photo: Yuri Rost / "New Gazeta" In Georgia, this information would be enough. The fame of this person is competing with respect for him. He is a large moral actor.

And so he left, leaving us his world, to the offensive similar to the one in which we continue to live Ilya Kabakov. Photo: Yuri Rost / "New Gazeta" Ilya Kabakov is a witness that we lived. It is hard to believe now if we had not continued to live the same.

The main goal of the road is the path We published this material in the anniversary issue. You can buy it here God arranged everything sensible. He limited the time to the road, but not the way itself. Life is finite, he said, but the desire to live is endlessly. The possibilities are unlimited, the soul is immortal. Go and look! And notice to yourself: the achievement of the goal is devoid of meaning, for it means the end of the path. Movement to the goal is life.

Go find it ... Phones usually do not answer: either he hid from the hustle and bustle and sits, or slopped down. And now you definitely won't find Photo: Yuri Rost / "New Gazeta"

But, seeing him in Tbilisi after ten years of separation, he opened his hands and hugged Bubu, as I hug the old faithful friends. (And Gogol came up with words. Thank him.) Photo by the author Here, Vakhtang Kikabidze. He was given a Russian order, but he did not take it. Offended. Would you take it? You have Russian tanks on your roads. Military aircraft fly overhead without any permission. They threaten you with occupation. Hominated with words and actions.

Do not fuss in the new year. Voltaire was not Russian, but the Council gave us a good thing. You need to cultivate your garden Peter Sarukhanov / "New Gazeta" And again they teach me to live.

The famous director - about France and Russia, about the bad and good, about the war and the world, about himself and humanity - in an interview with his friend Yuri, which took place not even yesterday, but reads as today Yuri Rosta and Otar Ioseliani. Photo: Yuri Rost / "New Gazeta" - You have not been to the country for a long time. Tell me, what has changed in a person and in life for your time in France? -Nothing particularly tragic, in my opinion, happened.

The famous director - about France and Russia, about the bad and good, about the war and the world, about himself and humanity - in an interview with his friend Yuri, which took place not even yesterday, but reads as today Yuri Rosta and Otar Ioseliani. Photo: Yuri Rost / "New Gazeta" - You have not been to the country for a long time. Tell me, what has changed in a person and in life for your time in France? -Nothing particularly tragic, in my opinion, happened.

The conversation of Arseny Roginsky and Sergey Kovalev in Kononyushn Yuri Rost, which took place more than 25 years ago and has not yet been outdated Photo: Valentin Kuzmin, Alexander Chumichev / TASS On December 10, in Oslo, Jan Rachinsky, on behalf of the Memorial (was liquidated by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation after recognizing by a foreign agent), received the Nobel Medal of the Peace Medal for 2022, together with Ukrainian and Belarusian human rights defenders.

The story of one presidential decree - I will spend the night. Do not go home in this form. - She passed me, undressed, lay down and fell asleep. I would not open the door to her, but just did not have time to close. She, apparently, was waiting in the dark corner of the corridor. I can endure not all the tipsy women. This one was unbearable. She just had not paid attention to my words about the need to finish experience for a long time. “I won’t leave,” she said, smearing mascara in her face.

Conversation with Natalia Nesterova - an outstanding artist who, during his lifetime, rarely and reluctantly gave interviews Natalia Nesterova - an outstanding artist of our time - recently left us, leaving a huge and peculiar picturesque world written on canvas. She rarely and reluctantly gave an interview. All the more interesting her old conversation with our observer Yuri Growth, who had never been printed before. Natalia Nesterova.