Everyone on the audio-video market is a PIRATE We bring to your attention a transcript of a conversation with a person "very close to the pirate business" - as he asked himself to be introduced. Piracy is an old Russian phenomenon that the authorities...

In the mid-1980s, I came to Krestyanka to head the department of literature. And he immediately experienced panic. The circulation of "Peasant Woman" was then 18 million. In front of me was a bag of letters, about the size of a first grader, but very thick. And for all these...

ADDICTIONS Somehow it happened that I found myself out of the literary stream. In thirty-two years of literary work I have received two or three reviews of my many books. One of them is the famous article “Who will adopt Cheburashka?”, in ...

The direction of movement for a sinking ship is an abstract matter Everyone is thinking about the upcoming presidential elections. Everyone is sure that they will decide our fate. What it will be, no one knows, but no one doubts Putin's victory. Or rather, not...

Russia has set a kind of record. It became the only country in the world that took part in three guerrilla wars in twenty years - in Afghanistan, in the first Chechen war and now in the second Chechen war Now - the facts ...

We are constantly offended by confidence Referendums have become as everyday institutions as contract killings or inflation. Whether it is necessary to adopt a multi-page Constitution or extend the term of the beloved president - that's the people. Always...