Lev Rubinstein It’s interesting to see once again that the division into genres in the situation of contemporary art is a relative thing The bookstore "At the Centaur" is located right in the building of the Russian State University for the Humanities. It was opened relatively recently, but has managed to become one of the favorite stores of the humanitarian public.

G.N. Just a few days after the appointment of Bislan Gantamirov as deputy head of the administration of the Chechen Republic, it could be stated that by placing him in this position, Moscow made a serious mistake. The newly appointed deputy rebelled against his immediate superior and independently undertook to carry out a “clean-up of Gudermes,” and his press secretary immediately clarified that the “clean-up” would be primarily the Kadyrov administration.

Dmitry Pinsker In an effort to restore lost influence on the Kremlin, Boris Berezovsky is using completely new methods of political struggle. Suddenly it turned out that the authorities were making decisions contrary to Berezovsky, without his participation and without taking into account his opinion about the likely consequences. And he went into opposition.

Boris Zhukov Notoriety has turned the most popular product of the Russian table into an exotic vegetable. (Photo: Vladimir Perventsev ) If you judge radish by Russian proverbs, you might think that they were force-fed it to people, as a form of punishment. “Horseradish is not sweeter than radish”, “I’m tired of worse than bitter radish”, “I’ll teach you which end to eat radish from!” (a threat like “I’ll show Kuzka’s mother”)...

Vasily Karpiy And the history of aviation is not only a list of designers and aircraft, records and disasters, but also a history of forecasts. From time immemorial people have dreamed of flying, and when the first airplanes took off a hundred years ago, they began to enthusiastically wonder what would happen to the new invention. The fantasies of French artists at the beginning of the century (below), who tried to imagine the flying machines of the future, seem naive today.

Alexander Golts Each time, making concessions to the opponents of military reform, the Minister of Defense actually allowed it to lower it on the brakes (Photo: Alexey Kuznetsov ) The Minister of Defense Marshal Igor Sergeyev, who is a highly professional and progressively thinking person, is obviously not easy to get along with the chief of the General Staff Anatoly Kvashnin.

Yuri Gladilshchikov The Moscow Film Festival opened with the long-awaited premiere of Gleb Panfilov's film "The Romanovs: The Crowned Family" To one of the main cultural events of the Moscow summer - the XXII International Film Festival - the Itogi film reviewer went through the main (spectator) rather than the service (journalistic) entrance.

Milana Davydova Roman Abramovich is preventing the privatization of the Russian oil industry Sibneft shareholders, who spent significant amounts of money on the acquisition of aluminum assets, cannot buy the remaining state-owned shares of oil companies. Therefore, the sale of these shares will not take place - the privatization of Rosneft and Slavneft has been postponed indefinitely.

Boris Zhukov Twenty years have passed since Vysotsky’s death—exactly as long as his creative life lasted. And almost as much as it took him to create his “backstory,” from birth to the composition of his first song. The current anniversary is a kind of rough test of time, an occasion to reflect on the posthumous period of his fate. It is now clear that the physical absence of Vladimir Semenovich in our world has a rather weak effect on his popularity and role in the public consciousness.

Summer. Hot. Riding the subway at this time is not entirely pleasant, especially if you have a sensitive sense of smell. What to do if you don’t have your own car? By taxi (www.taxi.ru) - possible, but expensive. Although voting on the roads is cheaper, it is also far from free. This is probably why the recently created “find yourself a travel companion” forum (www.talk.ru/forum/talk.ru. poputka) is so popular.

Galina Kovalskaya Russia may be left completely without an upper house. Until the Constitution is amended Instead of a strong upper house, the country will now have a weak one. Amendments to the law on the formation of the Federation Council, adopted during the work of the conciliation commission, do not affect this circumstance in any way. Governors received the coveted right to recall their senatorial appointees.

Alla Astakhova, Alexander Sorin (photo) The Crimean Karaites - a small people with a relatively prosperous fate - still remain a mystery to ethnologists and historians Karaite cemetery in the Valley of Jehoshaphat, so named because of its striking resemblance to the famous valley near Jerusalem. (Photo: Alexander Sorin ) The climb from the valley to the ancient city takes a little over an hour if you walk quickly.

Vladimir Plungyan The number of small languages ​​is rapidly declining, which is why the most complete descriptions of living languages ​​are so necessary. The Russian encyclopedic publication “Languages ​​of the World” serves this purpose. "Languages ​​of the world" is a special term.

Tom Masland (Newsweek) Sierra Leone, Angola, Congo... All over the African continent, these stones leave their bloody traces Different facets of one diamond. Argentine fashion model Jennifer Jimenez (right) shows off a 50-carat champagne diamond necklace at the haute couture show ahead of the Oscars (an event sponsored by De Beers, among others). 13-year-old Isatu Kaigbo from Sierra Leone (left) became one of the countless victims of diamond smuggling in Africa - bandits cut off her hands.

Kirill Speshnik In Russia there is only one point where one hundred thousand completely different people gather voluntarily every year The Grushinsky Festival, held annually on the first weekend of July on the Mastryukov Lakes near Samara, is considered to be the most widespread festival of art songs. And it is true. As well as the fact that a very noticeable proportion of its participants have a very distant relation to this song.