"Wedding" (France -Russia) Opening the special order of the painting “Wedding”, Kinovist Kirill Razlogov noted that the French producer Catherine Dussart, financing such a film, showed real heroism. In the sense - there was a risk not to break to the heart of a Western viewer with a wild story on the topic “Features of a national wedding”.

In Moscow, celebrations dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Helsinki agreements, as you know, required compliance with the minimum international standard of human rights in relation to citizens of each country who signed them. It was with the signing of the final act of the Helsinki agreements in the USSR that the human rights movement began, on the initiative of academician Andrei Sakharov, the creation of the Moscow Helsinki group (MHG) was announced.

Alexander Ivanchenko was born in 1945 in the Urals. In Brezhnev’s times, he was persecuted for dissent. The test of Ivanchenko was published by many magazines, published separate books in Moscow, Sverdlovsk, Germany, the USA ... He is the finalist of the first Russian Boker and the laureate of Antibukera-99. He will live in Moscow.

Some posters from the exhibition of a modern Japanese poster can be transferred to the exhibition of works of contemporary art, and no one will notice that among the paintings of “lucky idle, neglecting despicable benefit,” the enemy crept in, pursuing the most earthly goals - to sell, realize the goods, force us to fork out ...

Drawing S. Arukhanov At the beginning of this war there was a lot of disputes: did the humanitarian disaster happen in refugee camps? Swaps reached insults. If anyone said: “There is a humanitarian disaster,” he was immediately accused of the absence of patriotism. Now that the deadline is almost a year, you can state: the humanitarian disaster has remained in the camps as a memory of the best share. But in the current Grozny, where people drive people from the camps - there is a real hell.

"To be John Malkovich" (USA - Great Britain) “Let me remember! This morning, when I got up, I was or not me? It seems not me at all! But if so, then who am I in this case? It's so complicated ... ”Lewis Carroll. "Adventures of Alice in Wonderland" Stronger and stranger! - the dreamer Alice was amazed. Still and stranger, - the audience of the film “Being John Malkovich” was perplexed and sincere. No, their legs were not carried away rapidly.

"Bit" (USA), "Gokhhato" (Japan) If anyone suddenly starts an anthology of love, I recommend that in the “Love and Culture” section, pay special attention to the topic of mutual influence of national culture and homosexuality. Two purely polar films about this subject demonstrate how amazingly geography refracts the same passion, weaving it into a cultural context.

The nursing home is again in Grozny.

Family happiness Vladimir Voinovich: Satyric emphasizes the difference between the great and funny - Vladimir Nikolaevich, were you absent at the International Congress of Writers for fundamental reasons or personal? - By laziness. I do not want to offend the organizers of Congress, probably he was no worse than others. But in general, all the gatherings of this kind resemble the congresses of Soviet writers - I do not see any real priest in them.

“We will reject this law or take it into force - it will still enter into force,” the Governor of Altai Alexander Surikov reconciled the senatorial duty with the instinct of self -preservation.

The elections of the First President of the Udmurt Republic, which will take place on one round on October 15, 2000, have already discarded their black shadow to the public life of the region. Any performance, any trips and meetings of Udmurt politicians are now considered from the election angle.

Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane - until August 20 A heterogeneous, individual and changeable thing, like time, is classified in the Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky, stamped with explanatory signs, caught with a glass cap of windows. The exhibition "Birth of the Time", organized by the state museums of Kassel (Germany) and the Tretyakov Gallery, monitors all the staged delusions and discoveries of a person relating to time and its measurement.

Frame from the movie "Dance with me" Today, July 27, at the XXII Moscow International Film Festival in the out -of -competition program (at 23.00, the Pushkinsky cinema) the film “Dance with me” will be shown. It is noteworthy that this Hollywood picture participates in the Russian festival and, perhaps, for the first time, the American tape objectively tells about the events of Soviet history.

On July 27, the official visit of the President of Kyrgyzstan Askar Akayev to Russia begins During the visit, negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov will be held. The Russian protocol also provided for the organization of the meeting of the Akayev couple with the Yeltsin couple.

Drawing S. Arukhanov Plastic logical absurdity. President Putin has compatriots abroad. And President Shaimiev has compatriots abroad. But these are different people. Although Shaimiev and Putin are citizens of one country. Just some kind of incident. But caring for Putin's compatriots has a federal level, while Shaimiev’s compatriots have only regional support. If the President of Russia becomes Shaimiev, then will everything be the other way around?