Masha Gessen International forces are trying to create power, law and order, society from scratch - so far not very successfully The compactness of the Serb settlement does not guarantee security. On June 6, a grenade exploded in the center of the Serbian village of Gracanica, injuring five Serbs. A few hours later, Serbs gathered for a demonstration attacked British KFOR fighters and burned two Albanian-owned trucks and a car.

Evgeniy Pakhomov The authorities in Addis Ababa and Asmara are repeating the same mistakes that led to the collapse of the previous Ethiopian regime While Eritrean women hold collective prayers for peace, the troops of the two countries are engaged in bloody battles. The death toll is approaching one hundred thousand. (Photo: AP ) “Asseb, zalambessa, badme...

Anton Pryshvin The favorite of Western investors, Anatoly Chubais, almost lost their trust Restructuring RAO UES is a complex matter. Chairman of the Board of RAO UES Anatoly Chubais has to maneuver between portfolio investors, governors, the state, and creditors. In general, there is nothing to envy - there are plenty of conflicts.

Father Georgy Chistyakov Recently it was announced the opening of a new program of the Soros Foundation "Hot Spots". Its curator was the Orthodox priest Father Georgy Chistyakov (Photo: Oleg Moiseev ) We are developing the “Hot Spots” program together with experts whom we attract from scientific institutions, from human rights and other non-governmental organizations, from among employees of government agencies, including the presidential administration.

Dmitry Sabov (Photo: EPA ) There have been no bombs in Yugoslavia for a year now, and NATO staff officers are still on the front line. General Jim Corley, who controlled the accuracy of the bombing in the spring of 1999, fights off journalists from Newsweek, who got their hands on a secret report on the real effects of the bombing.

F. R. Timur Novikov, Aidan-gallery. Moscow The main “new Russian classicist” and repentant modernist Timur Petrovich Novikov continues to search for classically-inspired fetishes that can sow horror in the hearts and cause a grimace of disgust on the faces of “supporters of art hostile to the muses.” To be honest, the heroes of his new series can cause horror and disgust not only among the intelligentsia of the “left-democratic orientation,” as T. P.

Dmitry Sabov The twentieth anniversary of the death of Josip Broz Tito (he died on May 4, 1980) was not celebrated in Belgrade: Tito was the president of another Yugoslavia - one that, after a decade of wars and ethnic cleansing, broke up into five states. But it's not only that.

(Photo: ) In the new ballet by choreographer Dmitry Bryantsev, “The Lady of the Camellias,” Natalya Ledovskaya (Marguerite Gautier) spends most of her time in a wheelchair, and her death from consumption is played out evilly and violently, as if parodying the scene of Giselle’s madness. The performance is far from the plot of the novel by Dumas the Son.

The return of the Olympic Games to Greece in 2004 gave its residents hope that the same fate awaited the famous “Elgin Marbles” - sculptures of the frieze of the Athenian Parthenon, which are kept in the British Museum. Greek Foreign Minister Georgios Papandreou arrived in London to testify in the House of Commons in a case involving illegal trade in antiquities.

"President Clinton is a very convenient and pleasant partner..." "Pope John Paul II is a very intelligent man..." Vladimir Putin “An artist, just like a politician, like a teacher, is a person at heart.” Alexander Shilov ( Nikolai Voronov ) “Yes, you know - I read this, I listen, I just don’t pay attention anymore. It seems that everyone wants to arrange for Chernomyrdin somewhere.

Irina Rosenberg Publishers would like to earn more, but this is hampered by the low effective demand of the Russian reader (Photo: Alexander Sorin ) At first glance, the economic crisis of 1998 did not particularly affect the development of the book market. The shelves of central stores are bursting with a variety of books, and people are crowding around the counters.

with the site www.anekdot.ru The experiment continues - we are publishing two of the best jokes from the Anekdot.Ru website at once . The first of these is the "people's choice" over the past week, which received a total of 2,229 votes. The other was revealed through internal voting. Compare: 1. A married couple is driving along a country highway. They are not in a hurry, the speed is 60 kilometers. The husband is driving.

A.R. (Photo: Pavel Gorshkov ) It takes a long time to reach our senators. Back on May 26, the president's representative in the Duma, Alexander Kotenkov, promised that as soon as a law was passed providing for the lifting of parliamentary immunity from governors, some of them would immediately find themselves behind bars. The heads of the regions, it seems, only realized in the middle of last week that the presidential representative was talking about them.

Masha Gessen Moribund Serbia, sunny Montenegro, chaotic Kosovo - three components of a virtually non-existent state A year ago, in June 1999, after 78 days of air raids, Serbian generals sat down at the negotiating table with NATO and in record time agreed on the withdrawal of their units from the Autonomous Province of Kosovo.