Following the “Lectures on Russian Literature”, the Independent Gazeta publishing house was released by the Nabokov course dedicated to the literature of the foreign It is unacceptable to turn literature into allegory, to isolate general ideas from it and compare them with the same general concepts of reality. The artist creates his own autonomous, closed and unique world, his universe with his laws.

It took a caravan for six days to make a path from Moscow to Belgrade I never experienced anything like this: hundreds of people went out to meet us, smiled, waved their hands, cried, threw flowers under the wheels of Russian KamAZ. It seemed that the Yugoslavia army entered, who was driving a hated enemy from the country, conquering the house behind the house, the city outside the city.

Having arranged a process over a popular politician, the Malaysian leader Mahathir did not suggest that the wife of a defeated “sodium” would continue to fight the regime Two years, four years - what's the difference, how much I will get, ”said the former Deputy Prime Minister Malaysia Anvar Ibrahim, waiting for the verdict of the court after a five -month trial in the case of“ corruption and sodomy ”, which became the most scandalous in the history of the country.

It is difficult to win the elections to the State Council of the Republic, but the Communists lost exactly Elections to the State Council of the Udmurtia passed, the “Fatherland”, albeit a few prematurely, would celebrate the victory, it would seem that interest in this small republic (only two single-mandate federal districts) should fade away. However, sociologists continue to discuss the burdened battle. Recently, each regional election campaign has been unique in its own way.

The desire of the North Atlantic Alliance to find a new lesson after the end of the Cold War led to the war of the "hot" in Yugoslavia Five F-16 squadrons, A-10 squadron, F-15 squadron, 24 APACH helicopters, seven B-52, five B-1, two B-2s from the Whitman airbase, Missouri, intelligence planes and unmanned schedules, in addition, 25 American F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F. An additional five B-, squadron of A-, two squadrons of F-, as well as military helicopters, is expected.

The contours of future discussions, however, are already visible. As the military operation is delayed, and with its consequences - the refugees poured into Europe, the threat of drawing into the conflict of Macedonia and Albania clearly cannot cope, the European specialists begin to understand that the EU, not NATO will have to pay for the costs of the “war for human rights”. Let it be late, but the European Union joined the study of political settings.

Some domestic pests are surrendering, others adapt to city life. But it is not necessary to meet each of them in hostility The more a cockroach you poison, the more resilient it is. It's like a race of weapons. Or antibiotics. But it is not necessary to resort to poison, there are more subtle, fascinating and unusual ways of struggle. A friend, a graduate of a biofac, advised me a brilliant, in his opinion, option. You buy several large Cuban cockroaches in the bird market.

Network art has a cave In a computer environment there is a joke about the best way to view the famous “black square” of Kazimir Malevich: just turn off the computer monitor. An extinct screen, they say, will give the viewer the most accurate idea of ​​the essence of the picture of the famous avant -garde. Unfortunately, such a view on the problem of transforming works of fine art on the Internet is not so far from the truth.

The new production of Alexander Ponomarev at the Youth Theater is one of the best performances of the current Moscow season You understand who will come to watch the performance on the stage of the children's theater, if you call it “Snow Maiden,” Ponomarev thought before the premiere. “Clear business is preschoolers.” The play based on the play by Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky turned out to be clearly not childish. “Maybe call it“ snow virgin ”?

If the reader of these lines happened to wander along the pages of the widespread web, it is likely that he already paid attention to the short-remembered ads posted on some sites that communicate the day, the day of the week, then the address of the network from which you came, but now it is increasingly coming to see ominous warnings: “Until 2000, 300 days remain ... 290 ...

Russia is not so much a “threat” as a “problem” Moscow responded to air strikes in Serbia with statements, which in Washington have not heard for the past ten years. The Russian military does not lag behind politicians and, apparently, are drawn into a kind of psychological war with the West. Defense Minister Marshal Sergeyev, actually extremely cautious in his statements, repeats after the Yugoslav military, the data on the losses of NATO aviation that are clearly not true.

The pendulum of political development went the other way The next parliamentary elections were held in Estonia and a new government has been formed - events that give a good reason to talk not only and not so much about the country itself, but about some trends in post -communist economic and political development. So, the right -centric government came to power in Estonia. Three parties - the “Union of the Fatherland”, the reform party and the Party of Moderate formed the ruling coalition.

The building of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater - the largest in Russia - stands in the middle of the main square of the city, a hundred meters from the sign of the country's geographical center. He was designed in the workshops of Boris Iofan, who simultaneously worked on the building of the Palace of Soviets, and was built during the war on the orders of Stalin. On May 9, 1945, immediately after the news of the victory, the theater was opened by the production of Ivan Susanin.

Martha came April). Unfortunately, the built -in clock does not know anything about what century we live - at one time when the memory resources were quite expensive, and most importantly, the programmers tried to show the class, reducing the size of the programs, on the date (which was used not only as the date itself, but also as a certain constant to which calculations and even password decisions were attached) “sewn up” only two digits - the latter.

An unplanned visit to Ariel Sharon’s strange affairs in Moscow gave rise to many questions. The Israeli press suggests that Moscow is interested in the mediation of Israel in the decision of the Balkan crisis. However, what could be the caused by such an unexpected choice of the Kremlin? The fact is that Israel is one of the few US allies who were in no hurry to support NATO actions against Yugoslavia.