Last Wednesday, gathered at the President-Hotel, the leaders of nationwide and regional television and radio companies solemnly and decorously signed the “CHARTIA of television and radio broadcasters”, so that, as the preamble of the document says, to establish “Rules and norms of behavior”. The participants gathered at the event as a holiday: at the entrance they congratulated each other and drank champagne.

When, more than twenty years ago, I first came to Japan as a trainee of Moscow State University and looked around slightly around, doubt crept into my fragile soul: what if it is a fake foreign abroad? No, everything seemed to be like - foreigners on the streets, and Coca -Cola in jars, and jeans in stores. However, the anxiety did not let go, since in the rural district around our university town near Tokyo did not sell American cigarettes.

home. Only the scale changed From the garbage bucket, which the resident of the slums in the simplicity of the soul empties into the window, to a huge transocean ship, taking tens of thousands of tons of garbage to the ground, specially bought in a foreign country for it. Streams of raw materials, involved in economic turnover, were rapidly growing - and in full accordance with the law of preservation of a substance, the mountains of garbage grew at the same pace.

Extreme dance music Another name of Break-Fitodi extreme dance music. It's clear? I am also not entirely clear to me. But I recall how in the first era of disco, in the mid-70s, a team of a certain company recording company tried to solve the secret of the success of a certain New York disco, which was always full of people. Although the same records were twisted there as everywhere, all from the same set of “hot dozens” (or “twenty”).

Last week, China is in a shaft voltage. The outrageous of calm became members of the religious sect Fa Lun Gon. In the center of Beijing, on the infamous Square of Tiananmen, they held a 10-thousandth demonstration of protest, demanding to stop attacking their press. Some call these people "scumbags." Others believe that it was they who managed to comprehend the truth, and they see in them an example to follow.

Dissolves in empty phrase. But in the speeches of Luzhkov and other delegates, something similar to ideology began to draw. At the first, Constituent Congress, the leitmotif of all the performances was a denunciation of liberal reformers, “traditional national values” and “protection of the domestic producer”. Strictly speaking, all the same as the Communists preach.

As censorship gradually takes its place among the attributes of barbarism, somewhere between the obsidian knife for human sacrifices and the stigma for the marching of slaves (pah-pah-pah, would not be jinxed!), The “obscene expressions” emergency and the turnover.

The festival of two main anniversaries of Russia and Germany was held in Moscow The Germans assure that nothing like our Pushkin madness, when every passerby is ready to cheerfully report to the television camera: “I remember a wonderful moment,” they do not have a goet's anniversary this year. Although their “everything” is fifty years older than our “total”.

On the eve of the re -voting in the Federation Council regarding the resignation of Yuri Skuratov, Boris Yeltsin made the governors a tempting offer, he promised them the redistribution of powers between the center and the regions in favor of the latter, of course, in exchange for the head of the prosecutor general. The deal, as you know, did not take place, however, despite this, the authorities to the regionals, according to some analysts, passed by itself.

The Americans lost to the Asian company a pretty piece of their tobacco industry The world tobacco industry suffers losses. Due to the financial crisis in Southeast Asia, Russia and the CIS countries, smokers smoke, maybe even more, but they choose cigarettes cheaper. The loss of profits cannot but worry manufacturers, and in this case there is a great desire to insure. This is partly evidenced by the regrouping of forces that occurred in the world tobacco business.

Red corner The news that the Bolshoi Theater was set by Agon and the Symphony to the Major, George Balanchin in just two to three weeks, sounds for ballet experts like an anecdote about a student who learned a foreign language on the eve of the exam.

In the capital, the theme of the Russian representative office on the current Venetian Biennale is still relevant. The Ministry of Culture approved the decision of the Expert Council at the State Center for Contemporary Art about domestic participants (they were Sergey Bugaev - Africa and Vitaliy Komar with Alexander Melamid). However, artists who have not passed the competition are eager to publish their proposals. Oleg Kulik could not stand the first.

Going beyond the limits of the capital, the Luzhkov party, so that its activists would not be confused with the Communists, was forced to clarify many of the provisions of her program Not to say that the Congress of the Fatherland movement, which took place in Yaroslavl at the end of April, caused a stir among local residents.

Last week, Moscow, which remained after the beginning of the next crisis in Yugoslavia on the sidelines of world politics, suddenly turned the diplomatic Mecca. Immediately, at the end of the NATO Washington Summit, Deputy Secretary of State Talbott went to the Russian capital.

The drawings of the great director are first shown in North America Sergei Eisenstein always painted. The corps of its drawings, stored in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI), has about five thousand sheets according to the latest data. Periodically, these drawings are exhibited in Russia and in the West. Exhibition with the beautiful name "The body of the line. Eisenstein's drawings ”pass these days in the Montreal cinematic complex Ex-centris.