Perestroika did not start with the economy, and even then they sang to us where everything would come

To the death of an outstanding critic Andrey Nemzer. Photo: Valery Melnikov / Kommersant Literary critic rarely gives his name to the era. When this happens, we are amazing and admiring. But this happens once on a 100th anniversary, if at least. There was an era of Belinsky, there was an era of Khodasevich, in the 90s there was an era of Nemzer. In order for this to happen, the critic must either guess where the time moves, or give time his vector. Andrei Nemzer did not try to guess.

Memory of Evgeny Yasin Evgeny Yasin. Photo: Itar-Tass In the office of Yevgeny Yasin (while he was the scientific director of the tower) a portrait of a doctoral sausage hung. So he called the image of the sausage loaf. And he added: "I am a Soviet man, pink sausage - my love." Is it true that he was a Soviet man? To some extent-yes. In the sense that household solidarity, naive respect and installation for a good outcome were inherent in him in full.

Memory of Dmitry Zimin Dmitry Zimin. Photo: Evgeny Reasonable / TASS We agreed with Dmitry Borisovich Zimin unexpectedly: he called, invited him and for pies and glasses of vodka proposed composing a prize for Russian -speaking scientific enlighteners. You need to understand that 15 years ago there was no scientific scientist written in Russian. It was - the residual - Soviet, reprinted by decades, and was a new, translated. “Nothing will appear,” he took the objections.

Writer and culturologist Alexander Arkhangelsky sums up the year As a lifelong Muscovite, I am equally pleased and saddened by what has been happening in Moscow lately - and especially the last year -. On the one hand, it has never been so clean, transport has never run so clearly, the city has never been so brightly and competently illuminated.

The Department of Literature of Novaya Gazeta represents Photo: "New Gazeta"

At the Artdokfest festival in Moscow, the film was displayed by Valentin Baryshnikov and Olga Loginova "Peter Vile. Cinema about me." This documentary is dedicated to the publicist and essay to Peter Weil, a long -term employee, and in the last years of his life - the chief editor of the Russian Radio Liberty service. Among the audience was a Moscow literary critic, TV presenter and writer Alexander Arkhangelsky. Peter Weil was the most charming person of his era.

Why is it pointless to run around the squares with cans Why is it pointless to run around the squares with cans What is the difference between a black square and a black hole? In the same difference between revolutionary art and revolution. The artist of the avant -garde enters the permissible abroad - the first and the only one. Not because he is a “wheel and a screw” of party culture, but because the future speaks through it, and it turns into a speech organ.

Photo by Corbis Images 50 years ago, on October 13, 1964, the Presidium of the CPSU Central Committee decided to resign the Soviet leader On the day of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos (October 14 - it was on this day that the change of power became known) the Trinity-Sergius Lavra celebrated its anniversary. During the assembly celebrations, a rumor ran through the ranks: Khrushchev was removed! And many crossed themselves: finally!

It all started, of course, not serious. As expected in such matters. From Karamazov’s game words. In the first half of the zero, rich friends of publicist Leontyev opened a Moscow restaurant under his name. Under the bright good name "oprichnik". And guests like the current leaders of the Donbass uprising of Girkin/Strelkov and bearded in this restaurant visited.

About the book of Archpriest Alexei Uminsky and Eteri Chalandzia "Man and the Church: the path of freedom and love." - M .: Alpina - Nonfiction, 2013 About the book of Archpriest Alexei Uminsky and Eteri Chalandzia "Man and the Church: the path of freedom and love." - M .: Alpina - Nonfiction, 2013 No, no, “a priest with a human face” is not only about the author of the book, Father Alexei Uminsky. Although about him, of course, too.

Dmitry Borisovich Zimin himself speaks of Ironia himself, almost with a slight mockery. Why did you create the largest business, and from scratch, without privatizing anything? "Just because I wanted to eat." How is there enough courage, being part of the Russian business elite, to say what do you think and act according to conscience?

Peter Paul Rubens. Simon Pharisei Paradox: the more primitive the error is, the harder it is to explain to the third -party public, what exactly its fallacy is. Most professionals, in words about a single and only textbook of history in horror, grab their heads; The normal layman, opening naive eyes, sincerely perplexed: what could be bad here? And try to prove that this is evil: on the move, unambiguously and affordable.

According to the Guardian newspaper, the writer Mikhail Shishkin refused to represent Russia as part of the official delegation at the American book fair Bookexpo and stated that the power in Russia was seized by a “corrupt, criminal regime”. The story of Shishkin’s statement has overgrown with literature; And still several problems remain. The first, and the main thing: the space of the discussion has collapsed, only the voting space remained: for, against, it was abstained.

In Moscow, in the 95th year of life, a philosopher, writer, cultural scientist Grigory Pomerantz died. As specified on the page of the Fund for Assistance to the writer, death occurred at about ten o’clock in the evening of Saturday. Photo: from the archive of G.S. Paran Grigory Pomerantz lived a long and eventful life. He was born in 1918 in Vilna, in the twenties, the family moved to Moscow.