The "anti -terrorist operation" in Chechnya ended. And not because the federal troops defeated. But because now there is a real war in full swing there. A few weeks ago, generals could afford to play words. Pushing that the advance of Russian troops in the rebellious republic is committed quickly and almost without loss, they struggled that what was happening was not a war.

H toe, or something, with the fact that until 1966 he had an outwardly exemplary and excellent biography for the Soviet writer. Namely, not in Moscow, the depraved was born among the city asphalt, the soil of anti -Soviet and dudes, not in decadent St. Petersburg, full of unfinished nobles who killed S.M.

Syria's tough position in peace negotiations with Israel turned the Moscow meeting into a purely representative event A meeting of foreign ministers of countries that are part of the Middle Eastern peace process to promote the Middle East process (as multilateral negotiations that began this week at the initiative of Russia in Moscow), an infrequent event in the diplomatic calendar.

It seems that the picture nevertheless ordered to live long. In the area of ​​Russian art, more or less corresponding to the definition of “modern” (but not “relevant” in any way), the painting quietly survived its century mainly on distant farms under the conventional names “photorealism” and “left mosch”. But these farms slowly turned into abandoned villages.

The movement is organized so that it is not that a free street even can not be found at the right time in the right place This 1995, a friend from San Francisco came to visit me. The next morning, after her arrival, I planted her in her “penny” and was taken to watch the sights of the capital of our homeland. On the Riga Estekad, by the way, a completely decent road - my passenger published a heart -rending cry: “Lord!” - What? What's happened? - I fussed. - There is no markup! - My God!

With the advent of a law that allowed women to serve in the Armed Forces of the country, the question inevitably arises the question of what to dress them. A simple redrawing of male uniforms is unlikely to like the ladies and make the service attractive. One of the first to the national task was to respond to the famous stylist Rocco Baroque. He took place in Rome in Rome of Fashion Week for women who will express the desire to serve in the troops of carbines - military gendarmerie.

Office building. Pipe street If the “Nautilus” on the Lubyanka (opposite the “Children's World”) was a kind of “Siberian barber” of Moscow architecture (in a storm of caused emotions and inconsistency of assessments), then this house is perhaps the “hut” Valery Ogorodnikov. A lot is arguing about him, but exclusively architects. He seems normal to an ordinary citizen. Good, simple, stylish, but a little non -modern. Well, there are no bells and deconstructivism in it in it.

The usual books will soon disappear, they are replaced by e -books. Instead of ink and paper of digital information and super -thin screens No one calls the 20th century the "century". But it would be worth, by the way. Throughout the century, the “heavyweights” of culture have placed their thoughts and discoveries on the pages of paper books: Joyce, Freud, Proust, Salinger, Orwell - even Bill Gates himself took part in this intellectual process.

A wonderful decade - named Andrei Nemser these years of Russian literature. So his article was entitled, published in the No. “New World” for this year. By defending his thesis, he completes the article with a list of thirty, in his opinion, the best works of the past 10 years and concludes: “Even one transfer of names makes us think about the diversity of our literature.” A opens the "New World" in 2000 by the story of Valery Zolotukha "The Last Communist".

Hope to cope with the partisan movement in Chechnya is very ghostly, especially if the feds will continue to carefully restore the population of the republic against themselves “The migration service of Khasavyurt to temporarily suspend the registration of citizens who arrived in Khasavyurt as refugees and temporary immigrants ... IVS of the GOVD ... temporarily stop registering citizens who arrived from the Chechen Republic of 15 to 60 years who arrived in the mountains.

German art in Russia has always been in a special position. But not because it is so good, but for reasons exclusively political: German art appeared with the German princesses with whom the Russian kings concluded dynastic marriages. Now, the abundance of “Nemetchins” (this is not at all an offensive epithet, but an art history term) in Russia is explained by the energetic propaganda activity of German cultural organizations like a Goethein Institute.

The prospects of trade and energy wars are told by the Executive Director of the Interstate Monetary Committee of the CIS Dmitry Skadidaev. For the past few years, a trade war has been going on between the countries, which today has reached such an intensity that it was time to stop. It is necessary to solve the problem. Russia and Ukraine are included in the free trade zone of goods are moving from one customs territory to another without customs duties.

Jeanne Labrun With whom exactly from the female directors to interview, there were no hesitation. Of course, with those who removed the most scandalous and frank female ribbons of the late 90s: with Brigitte Rouen, Jeanne Labrun and Catherine Bray. Their films “After intercourse, all the animals are sad”, “Beware of my love” and “Romance” (about the crisis of relationships between sexes, female loneliness, sexuality and sex) in the West are usually listed through a comma.

Fights between the monks of different denominations occurred in all time, there is a Christian monasticism, and, for example, the hits of the monks in the temple of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem have become a good tradition, without which it is impossible to imagine this bastion of universal love. The hostility of two Russian churches in Palestine will not surprise anyone either.

Not so long ago, having bitten off a piece of almond cake, I felt a familiar taste to disgust. A careful study confirmed: despite its name, the cake turned out to be a bit stuffed with pieces of peanuts. For me, it was like an enemy flag over one of the latest bastions that were still holding. For several years now, with powerless despair, I have been watching a consistent capture of the American aggressor of the domestic confectionery market.