We tried to create a conditional world that would not distract the viewer with the specificity of the place or time. Dmitry Lesnevsky - Arthur Solomonov This week it will become known whether the film “Exile” was included in the program of the festival in Cannes. Which Do you have forecasts on this? In March, we sent the film to the selectors of the Cannes festival. There are rumors that the answer will be positive.

"People are inevitable of birth" Writer Andrey Bitov I was engaged in the eastern calendar in moments of idle leisure and discovered some patterns. 1937 was the year of the Red Bull. I was struck by the number of births in my writing environment that occurred this year. Vysotsky first made it in his song: “But I was conceived at night viciously and came into the light not up to the deadline ... I received freedom for the first time by decree of the 38th.” This is not entirely true.

In politics in the territory of the former USSR, the West behaves as a portfolio investor. The historical homeland of my mother - Georgia, as well as my son - Macedonia, as well as my closest friend - Ukraine moved to NATO. Not tomorrow and not easy.

"A real work of art creates a crack in the surface of our ideas about the world, about our connections with people" Andrey Zvyagintsev - Arthur Solomonov Our colleagues from Ren Film completed work on the film "Exile". The first and only interview after finishing the picture, director Andrei Zvyagintsev gave The New Times. You prefer not to talk about already created paintings, or about those in the process of creation. Why don't you like to interpret your own works?

If you watch Russian state television channels, you might think that Ukraine is on the verge of an apocalypse. “The collapse of the country”, “the revolution devours its sons”, “the inevitable counter -revolution” are by no means the most powerful characteristics that can be heard from jubilant commentators. Meanwhile, everything is exactly the opposite.

Football of the country of Soviets has not gone anywhere. We, by naivety of the inextricable, thought that we have sports capitalism in our yard today, but on very recent days the chairman of the County Chamber of the Russian Federation, and according to the fashionable compounding, the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Dynamo football club (Moscow) Sergey Stepashin, communicating in a narrow circle, explained that we are actually still deep in the same way. past, Soviet century.

About stupidity and greed. Until now, not one of the Russian oligarchs has been unclenched into simple millionaires because of their own stupidity. It was - because of stubbornness; It was-because of the intrigues of competing associates; It was-because of the default; It was - in politics.

On April 17, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine will begin consideration of the issue of compliance with the Basic Law of the country signed on March 2 by President Viktor Yushchenko on the dissolution of the Verkhovna Rada and the appointment of the date of early elections. The New Times conducted his own survey of experts - specialists in the field of constitutional law, both Ukrainian and Russian, regarding the legitimacy of this decree.

April duty officers. 90 years ago, one scumbag, marginal and fanatic, urgently rolled from Davos (or maybe from Zurich) to Petrograd. And quickly dashed the "April Theses". The situation in the country was then cheerful and encouraging: spring, thaw, revolution, restructuring.

“Kurt’s wife sat behind him on the couch. She stuck out her leg and laid her on Kurt's knee. Kurt, continuing to talk, accepted this leg for granted and began to stroke. As if the cat sat on her knees. It was luxurious. " Kurt Vonnegut died.

Parliament is not a place for discussions. The street is not a place for protest, but only the space for the holidays, as the speaker of the State Duma Boris Gryzlov said on the eve of the “marsh of disagreed” in Moscow. It remains to wait for the authorities of the vowel definition, which is not a place in the media. Pointed - Media stripping - The election stripping of the media field acquires a point character.

70 years ago, in April 1937, the Politburo approved the Regulation on a special meeting at the NKVD, who was given the right to exceed “persons recognized as socially dangerous” to vowel supervision or to enter into a period of labor for up to five years.

Give a port. Russian seaports await the redistribution of property. Two new laws that fell into the State Duma are able to rewrite the rules of the game in this industry. First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov hopes that now the port "will have a single owner who will control all the activities." Companies that have passed the state faces contribute promise all the benefits of civilization in the form of tax preferences and customs benefits.

Why did the 37th year become a common house, and not the next-the 38th, for example, when, in fact, they shot so many arrested, interrogated, tortured in the 37th? The answer, perhaps, is that then we finally crawled into the irrevocable tunnel of terror. Sergey Buntman Deputy Chief Editor Echo of Moscow 37 year - the top of the absurd, bringing the Soviet meat grinder to the highest revolutions. But the point is not only in the number of victims, not even the intensity of terror.

Divide and fight. The State Duma agreed with the idea of ​​the Ministry of Finance how to save the money of the Stabilization Fund from constant attempts to "invest" it. Last week, amendments to the Budget Code were adopted in the second reading. The stabilization fund must be turned into two others - for future generations and a reserve fund. If it works out, of course.