To the 100th anniversary of Kobo Abe Born one hundred years ago, Kobo Abe, a post -war Japanese writer and playwright, a modernist and avant -garde, was an extravagant, very versatile and paradoxical person. He was translated into the USSR, and Russian -speaking readers knew well the novels “The Fourth Ice Age”, “Woman in the Sands”, “Alien Face” and others. However, due to the differences in cultural contexts, not all understood in them.

About the book of Igor Surikov "Diogenes" Until recently, there was not a single biography of the ancient philosopher Diogenes in Russian. The historian Igor Surikov, the author of the biographies of Socrates, Pythagoras and other great Greeks in the ZhZL series, undertook to fill the lacuna. Why the book contrary to expectations turned out to be unsuccessful, explains Roman Korolev. Starting from February 24, 2022, we were all in the face of the advancing barbarism, violence and lies.

From the book “The Free Land” newspaper German invaders as an example of Nazi propaganda ” Historian Konstantin Maksimov analyzed the newspaper Free Earth, which came out during the fascist occupation of Kalmykia in 1942. A significant part of the materials was devoted to the justification of the war: the editors explained to the readers that Germany was ahead of the lead, and the German army was fulfilling a liberation mission.