Letter from the editor No. 30 (60) August 15-21, 2005

Dear reader!

“Consider being a Muscovite” , read: I am already a local - so often those who are still considered by the locals to be strangers evaluate themselves. report are still so noticeable both in the capital and in the localities Newcomers from the south (and there is nowhere to come to “native Russia” from the north) are usually engaged in petty trade and public catering, which is why the “Highlanders of the Central Russian Upland” from Artem Vernidub’s .

Brits also become people from Asia and Africa - "Under the minarets of London" . And even when they, consider - Londoners, tried to blow up their city for the second time, compatriots consider it not their origin that is dangerous, but the perfidy of Al-Qaeda, which recruits good guys. The semantic pair "British-British" is the same as "Russians-Russians". We will also try to understand that neighbors who are darker than us are neither good nor bad, but this is how it is and will be.

Another country, unexpectedly similar to Russia. Norway, which is celebrating its centenary of independence, is also sitting on the pipe: "The Way from the Varangians to Oil" . Alexander Baunov discovered there the painfully familiar problems of excess hydrocarbon wealth: the rest of the industries are dying, the nation is eating up the subsoil and, living richer than its neighbors, begins to lag behind them in development.

Unprinted ads about "prices are just oh ... et", "Song of the Merchant Chichvarkin " brought the Euroset campaign to the leaders of Russian retail trade. What does this say more about: about the businessman himself or about the Russian buyer? Or about the coincidence of their tastes and the style of our time? “Bronze Rush” is, of course, also the style of the era: a great many monuments, the artistic merits of which no one even thought about during installation. Especially if these are monuments “for memory”, “as a gift to the city”.

The continuation of the Piekh pop dynasty - “Stas is authorized to vote” - is also from among “our everything”. Valery Drannikov in the column "One day with ..." comprehended the practice of show business, accompanying the guest performers of the resort "chess".

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Happily!

Leonid Parfyonov,
Chief Editor
"Russian Newsweek"