Anthology as a genre is a museum in one case, in another, a private collection. It all depends on its constructive principle, on the principle of selection and the degree of ambitiousness of its compilers. The cultural role of the compiler of anthology is comparable to the role played by the curator of art projects in a situation of modern fine art. Any anthology imposes one or another hierarchy, one or another mode of reading texts.

Lyubov Polishchuk page In one of the lanes of old Moscow there is a restaurant Eleans. The place is quiet, this should be a real restaurant. A good kitchen does not tolerate a roar. And the kitchen here is not just good great thanks to the great cook Anatoly Gaykovich Davtyan. Khrushchev and Queen Elizabeth, Charles de Gaulle and Fidel Castro, as well as numerous visitors to the World Exhibition in Montreal in 1967, where Davtyan represented Armenian cuisine, admired his talent.

Despite the results of the referendum in Ireland, the achieved compromise is fragile On Wednesday evening, on May 27, in a stormont, Elton John, dressed in a white jacket, was clearly in the blow. There was a concert for two and a half hours, and the 15,000th hall roared with delight. In the hall it was impossible to distinguish Catholics from Protestants. However, it was precisely this effect that the British Prime Minister Tony Blair wanted to achieve.

It is completely possible to cover the festival. The easiest way to use last year's move: to state some plots that have developed in Cannes now. Cannes and Hollywood It seems that Hollywood again began to feel respect for Cannes and recognized him, as in the 50s and 60s, a strong rival and a profitable partner. Most of the public is sure (she is regularly convinced of this!) That Cannes the Center for Commerce and Bourgeoisness. A party of stars and thicknesses. Solid Hollywood.

The largest exhibition in history has together connected the exploits of navigators of the past, the reality of our days and the eternal sea utopias Usually not inclined to self -dentitions of the Portuguese, the most restrained and silent from the South European peoples, simply cannot be recognized. The World Oceans - Heritage for the Future that has just opened in Lisbon - the main tourist event of this summer fills them with pride for the great naval achievements of Pyativkova ago.

Cold -blooded killers and experienced detectives, cynical prostitutes and omnipotent godfathers. The Israeli prose writer Stanislav Bronstein, playing in the adventurous adventure genre, dared to move away from this gentleman's set of commercial literature characters. His novel “Brothers for Export”, published in Moscow in the publishing house “Bukman”, is not just a detective, but a geopolitical detective.

Vakanohan (in the picture on the left) was recognized as the 66th in the history of the Japanese Association of the Sumo Yokozuna, that is, the Great Champion. To transfer it to this rank from Oakki (just a champion) was recommended based on the results of two victories in two consistently held tournaments, one of which is a large summer. But in order to take the highest level in the hierarchy of the sumo wrestlers, it is not enough to be the best on the tatami.

The financial storm strengthened the position of the new prime minister The cloud crawled last Monday: exchange players were nervous after announcing the delay of the next tranche as part of the loan provided by the IMF to cover the budget deficit. Nervousness was added by rumors about the possible devaluation of the ruble, that is, a sharp decrease in the exchange rate of the Russian currency in relation to the dollar.

Smuggling The idea of ​​Russia is inextricably linked with a picture of endless open spaces. The cold wind of the spaciousness not only beckons, but also scares. In this, many sometimes contradictory features of Russian culture are rooted. Sometimes the spaciousness is seen as a zero, where the Russian soul can, in the expression of Gogol, "spin, walk, sometimes say: damn everything!". But sometimes from the excess of the place, a person yearns and waves, finding himself a place.

For almost three centuries, the world witnessed how, exhausted in the overseas achievements of Portugal, plunged into a provincial oblivion. The country reached the lower point of the fall by the mid-1970s. The loss of Angola and Mozambique, the last large colonies, the return of several hundred thousand refugees to the metropolis were perceived as a national shame.

“Navegar E Preciso/ Viver Nao E Preciso” (“It is necessary to/ live not so necessary”). In these words of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa - the quintessence of the 500 years of the history of a small country on the Western tip of Europe, which breaks into the Atlantic. For two centuries (from about 1450 to 1650) Portugal, the entire population of which did not exceed three million people in those days, opened and commercially mastered an unthinkable number of lands.

Tens of thousands of Russians live in Argentina. She saved some years ago from Smersh and Stalinist camps. Others came here after the collapse in the hope of finding good luck “I can’t calmly hear the sound of a flying aircraft. I want to cry! " For all the sincerity of Volodin’s recognition and genuineity of tears that are full of his eyes, I barely restrain the laughter. The unexpected metaphor of human despair painfully.

The Media-Most group, led by Vladimir Gusinsky (it includes the Great Foundation magazine), acquired a controlling stake in the second largest Israeli newspaper Maariv (evening). A breakthrough into the Israeli information market cost Vladimir Gusinsky to $ 85 million.

The once cute and noble group (Malani Arzamasov, Lev Evzovich, Evgeny Svyatsky), which arose while working on the graphic design of the cult among the Moscow intelligentsia of the performance of Anatoly Vasiliev “Serso”, has chosen a relatively recent strategy of shock and provocation. On the one hand, the Aesy made several "bodily" installations, the heroes of which presented the viewer to open throats and abdomen.

More recently, the prime winner was sentenced. Now not Perhaps the central literary event of the past 1997 was the refusal of Dmitry Galkovsky to accept the Prize of the Independent Newspaper (Antibuker). Galkovsky was called a laureate in the nomination “Prose” (the “Brothers Karamazovs” Award) for the novel “Endless Dead End”. The reading public has heard about this novel for several years, but she saw the full text only last year. The refusal was framed as a public act.