be sure that no one in the whole world has studied this issue before you. And for this you need to be aware, follow, read in all languages, communicate with colleagues in other countries. Due to the need to live by the Hamburg account, we have very strict criteria. Therefore, it is funny and wild for us to hear about how someone steals dissertations. Our world has never lived like this.

Xu Xin “Karamai” history, politics China, 1994. A fire breaks out at a school concert. The teachers order the children to remain in their places while the invited party leadership leaves the hall. Result: 323 corpses burned beyond recognition, all officials were saved. The film lasts six hours. The Chinese director has learned the lesson of Claude Lanzmann (see Shoah): when it comes to tragedy, you can forget about editing.

“Satyricon”, Fri April 5, 19.00 The stage adaptation of Dostoevsky’s story “Notes from the Underground” performed by Raikin turns into a grandiose session of exposing the baseness of human nature.

6 ★★★★★ Ron Fricke. Documentary. USA, 2011, dubbed An hour and a half journey through remarkable places on the planet, filmed on 70 mm

Rem Koolhaas “New York is beside itself” ARCHITECTURE, THEORIES Koolhaas’s New York is a city of inflamed neuron nodes, an inverted logic that only seems false to architects who are accustomed to believing that a concept should subjugate life to itself. Collecting together anecdotes, postcards, historical evidence, Koolhaas himself seems intoxicated by the endless vitality of the city, its power, which, according to laws independent of man, creates a dense, rich and logical space.

Alexander Markov “Human Evolution” biology Against the backdrop of a boom in popular literature, specializing in stories about black holes and artificial intelligence, Markov’s book is a real scientific pop. A conversation about what is happening, what issues are on the agenda in evolutionary biology.

China-Town-Café, Thu March 28, 21.00 The most unusual pop group of the former USSR, the Minsk trio, playing wild costumed electropop with absurdist lyrics (they themselves call it “special pop”), has been performing in Moscow less and less lately - and this is a shame, because there is simply no other group like it. Not long ago, “Cassiopeia” released its new album “I Give My Heart to Children”; If you weren't able to attend the presentation, don't miss it this time - it's worth it.

(Olympus Has Fallen) Antoine Fuqua. Starring Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Rick Yune, Angela Bassett, Dylan McDermott, Finley Jacobsen, Melissa Lio, Radha Mitchell, Ashley Judd. USA, 2013, dubbed from April 4 Mike (Butler) was once the beloved bodyguard of the US President (Eckhart), but after one tragic incident he was sent to a desk job in the Treasury.

■ Noam Chomsky “Future State” politics, philosophy Chomsky is a philosopher, linguist, historian, critic, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of almost hundreds of books, patriarch of the activist movement and generally an extremely authoritative figure. But most of all he is known as a fierce critic of the capitalist way of society, the modern state in general, as well as the United States - its domestic and foreign policies.

Sven Hedin “The Trail of War: On the Track of Big Horse in Central Asia” TRAVELS Sven Hedin, a Swede by birth and an adventurer by spirit, easily changed his citizenship, but not his principles. A monarchist and opponent of democracy, Hedin revered the German Empire, and its support during the First World War cost him his place in England's Royal Geographical Society.

K. Tublin Publishing House, St. Petersburg, 2012 ### Several stories about the oddities of life - some are very funny. A very funny micro-play “The Ballad of Return” - on the completely unfunny theme of a lover in the closet. The very funny “Good Thing” is about a professor who accidentally gets a magazine with an advertisement for prostitutes, and he still can’t get rid of it until, out of a desire to reach some kind of illusory compromise, he goes to the only “dressed” one in the magazine.

Music Town, Sat March 30, 20.00 A strange cross-section of British rock.

David Hoffman "Oligarchs. Wealth and power in the new Russia" POLITICS, RUSSIA Soviet chemists, taxi drivers, foremen and engineers become the owners of one sixth of the land in less than ten years: a tome by an American who worked as the head of the Moscow bureau of the Washington Post - about how oligarchic capitalism developed in Russia, with the main characters, along with Khodorkovsky and Gusinsky, being Luzhkov and Chubais.

(Ernest et Célestine) 20 ★★★★★ Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patard, Benjamin Renner. Cartoon. France-Belgium, 2012, dubbed Film adaptation of the popular French book (GI Joe: Retaliation) John M. Chu. Starring Bruce Willis, Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson, Adrienne Palicki, Ray Stevenson, Walton Goggins. USA, 2013, dubbed The second part of the popular action movie about the fight of a special squad against criminals

Alexander Luria, “A Little Book about Big Memory” PSYCHOLOGY, MEDICINE One person remembered everything. In the literal sense of the word. Why couldn’t I live, because every second I came across phantoms of the past and life passed as if in a fog. And then he met a doctor who taught him how to organize this chaos. It's hard to say what's most amazing about this tiny book.