Serious literature took up the police Criticality, or the prophecy of Major Maisuradze. The policeman in serious prose becomes the antihero of our time, as follows from the content of some books, put forward this year to the National Bestseller Award. What modern Russian literature sees at the twilight of the police consciousness - learned The New Times While he was standing at the post, The field of poppies waved here, But because there is a field of macs, What was he stood there.

In recent days, South Korea has been talked about in Russia mainly in connection with the scandal over the publication of stupid cartoons in The Korea Times, which had the good sense to apologize for them. The tension in Seoul does not subside for a completely different reason.

At 23, from scratch, he created his own opera theater. Two decades have passed since then, and the theater of the graduate of GITIS Dmitry Bertman not only did not fall apart - he became one of the most famous in the world, was a participant in almost all major festivals, received ten “gold masks”. In the year of the 20th anniversary of Helikon-Opera, her artistic director told The New Times that he was thinking about today's theatrical life.

Intellectual cinema was carried away by eschatology Choose yourself. Films about the end of the world were frequent on the screen. In the early days of April, “Ripper” and “blindness” came out. On April 15, "Mr. Nobody" starts. Pictures about the apocalypse are the head detachment of catastrophe films, that is, entertainment for the mass public.

Taganka, wise evening Taganka! Our generation is counting its time, its era from the end of the Khrushchev thaw to the current Putin winter, from 1964 to 2010. This time, Taganka gave us a parable of two geniuses: Yuri Lyubimov and Tonino Guerra, two cultures - Slavic and Mediterranean, two traditions. Abyss and abyss of the inescapably unhappy, restless Russia and Italy permeated with ancient sun and light.

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On April 14, the publisher of The New Times, Irena Lesnevskaya, became the gentleman of the French Order of the Legion of Honor. The award ceremony was held at the French Embassy in Moscow. France Ambassador Jean de clay noted that the ceremony has acquired a “special meaning”, implying an attempt by investigators to seize the documents as amended by The New Times.