Performance based on Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice" in the theater. Moscow City Council. Translated by T. L. Shchepkina-Kupernik. Stage director - A. Zhitinkin The premiere took place on December 3, 1999, but the excitement around the performance does not subside - the theater ...

Computer Monster vs Drunk Projectionist Perhaps the liveliest discussion at the 4th White Pillars 2000 Archival Film Festival was the round table Farewell to the Lumiere brothers - the end of film cinema and new...

The Great Moscow Circus has a new program ... Ah, the lapunder monkeys are like people: here he is, a lapunder of a sublime way of thinking, in silk fluttering trousers, in a circus vest embroidered with sequins, without a longie, climbing a pole .. .

It happened. Registration of contenders for the presidential throne has been successfully completed. Of the 44 power-hungry people, only eleven were made happy with the candidate's certificate. Vice-speaker Zhirinovsky received a scandalous refusal (Novaya Gazeta about this ...

TECHNOLOGIES ARE ON THE WAR PATH FOR OUR BRAIN This is only for the uninitiated Dibrov - the host of the next money show. Telegourmets have long been "addicted" to his nightly black-and-white "Anthropology", and professionals know Dibrov as eternal ...

In the second round I want to see Yavlinsky and Putin Dostoevsky argued: if you offer a person, and even more so a Russian person, a Russian paradise, he will say there too - I want freedom! It will soon be clear whether Dostoevsky is right or not. Heaven is offered to us....

...Vladimir Mokrogo (deputy of the State Duma, chairman of the Committee on Local Self-Government): - Today, not everyone fully understands the importance of the environmental disaster that occurred on the Tisza River and affected several ...

A few years ago, a remarkable professor of philology and, surprisingly in this context, almost a structuralist, told me: "A writer needs the experience of provincial life." I don’t know where, but the native Muscovite Vyacheslav Pietsukh has it, ...

WHICH THE AUTHORITIES WILL WRITE How many fellow travelers can you get if you don't know where you are going? Maxim Dianov, Director General of the Institute of Regional Problems, reflects on this in an interview with a Novaya Gazeta correspondent, as ...