Yaroslav Sedov Putin and Blair appreciated the products of the Mariinsky Theater The final of the performance, in which the defeated French banners find themselves at the feet of Field Marshal Kutuzov, caused revival in the royal box (photo: Victor Vasiliev ) At one of the press conferences before the premiere, the director of the War and Peace, Andrei Konchalovsky, flirtingly complained about the “excessive excitement” around the upcoming performance.

Dina Goder (Photo: Vladimir Lupovskoy ) Russian Army Theater Director Boris Morozov Theater named after Evgeny Vakhtangov Directed by Evgeny Marcelli In the theater there is often a fashion for certain playwrights or even specific plays. Today, following the Moscow craze for Hamlet, a fashion for Othello has begun. The Army Theater was the first to play the premiere. The actors of the Army Theater are good - nothing can be said here.

Fedor Romer (Photo: Evgeny Gabrielev ) Exhibition hall "Ark". Moscow The artists Sutyagin and Shevchenko are convinced retrograde easel painters, that is, painters and graphic artists who go to sketches, draw cute “French” landscapes and still lifes.

Sergey Ivanov In the 11th century, when Europe began to slowly emerge from its lethargy, the first thing, as always happens, was the revival of trade. But transporting goods by road was expensive and unsafe, so the importance of river transportation increased sharply. The barge has become an ordinary detail of the European landscape. In particularly developed lands, such as Italy, a network of canals began to grow. And at the same time a problem arose: how to mark the fairway?

Alexander Golts The organized resistance of the Chechen separatists appears to have been broken. Now it will be organized differently The capture of Salman Raduev is, of course, and this must be admitted without any reservations, a brilliant operation of the FSB. Workers of domestic special services know from a young age: an “operational event” is not important in itself, the main thing is the political resonance that it caused.

Nikolay Alexandrov February 2000 The most remarkable February publication, in my opinion, was in “Friendship of Peoples”. And this is not “A Tale of Love and Vanity” by Nodar Jin, as one might assume, but “Diary. 1916-1966” by Alexander Karadzhev, still unknown to anyone. Essentially this is the autobiography of Karadzhev, a white emigrant who lived a life resembling an adventure novel. The “diary,” written when the author was 72 years old, can be considered an outline of the novel.

Lev Rubinstein Ten books pulled from the stream - prose, poetry, memoirs, notebooks - are not united by anything except that each of them deserves attention In the Gilea bookstore you can find not only the books mentioned in the review, but also much more. Especially if you stand on the stairs (Photo: Pavel Gorshkov ) It seems right to start with publishing debuts. For example, here’s some good news: “Foreign Woman” has resumed publishing the book series.

Lyusya Chernova Operator companies believe that this year will be a turning point for mobile telephony (Photo: Pavel Gorshkov ) Now, in order to use a cell phone, no special permission from the State Communications Supervision Authority is required (the corresponding decree was signed by the acting president). Previously, when you purchased a cell phone, you were given a temporary permit, and after two months you had to come to the office for a permanent one.

Irina Golovinskaya English Booker winner in 1998 on our book market Ian McEwen. Amsterdam. M.: Publishing house "Nezavisimaya Gazeta", 1999 Ian McEwen's book, which instantly became fashionable, is definitely worth reading. Firstly, it is interesting to compare “our” Booker laureates and “theirs”. Secondly, the sympathies of readers and critics do not often coincide.

Natalia Shkurenok Museum-apartment of Kirov. St. Petersburg This exhibition about the 20-30s (authors: museum director Tatyana Sukharnikova and artist Maria Staborovskaya) is built on contrasts: tenderness and nostalgia from meeting old things and shock from documents, most of which are being exhibited for the first time.

Sergey Parkhomenko The broom that doesn't fly anywhere (Photo: Alexander Sorin ) They say that an orange is like freedom: until you try what it tastes like, you won’t want it and won’t demand it. If the idea is true for the banal citrus, which somehow squeezed into the poor diet of communist times, what can we say about the exotic fruits that have only now reached our table from the fabulous tropical lands. Here's a broom, for example.

Irina Andreeva The economy of Voronezh is gradually reviving, the region is becoming attractive for investment, but local residents still do not favor foreign investors (Photo: Yuri Feklistov ) They also say that Muscovites on the streets of provincial cities are identified by their swift gait! Even if we wanted to, we couldn’t walk quickly around Voronezh: the sidewalks were covered with a thick, lumpy ice crust (this was in late February - early March).