Around Russia The first negotiations of the New Cold War July 14, 2016 Alexander Golts Worse than I would like, but better than it could be. That is how it is possible to characterize the results of the meeting of the Russian Council - NATO, which took place four days after the completion of the summit of the North Atlantic Alliance, which made the decision to contain our country.

Poor, poor Jeffrey Shell, top manager, curator of Radio Liberty! He came under Russian counter-sanctions. Now he will not be able to keep money in Sberbank and VTB, he will stop buying real estate in the famous resorts of the Krasnodar Territory; his wife will not go to give birth to her next children in a Russian maternity hospital... Jeffrey Schell weeps bitterly. And Mikhail Zoshchenko is nervously smoking in the corner.

The artist Pavlensky began to play a little in the installation. His work rises, as experts say, not only to actionism, but even to the rich religious tradition of foolishness. And let neither one nor the other to me very closely aesthetically - free will: if you want - wrap yourself in a prickly wire, you want - nail the eggs to the paving stones. This does not harm anyone except an artist who can manage his body at his own discretion.