There is an episode in Zoshchenko's story "Youth Restored": a character who is recommended as an "author" is standing at the zoo's monkey cage. And, looking at how his "cousins" "paw their females, eat, poop, jump and fight", self-critically ...

Addiction starts with genetics? Yakov MARSHAK, scientific director of the Marshak Clinic: Have you noticed that there are two types of people who differ in the way they build their behavior: some in accordance with moral values, and others, like ...

HAS BEEN UNDER A HORSE (letter from the victim) Meaning: in the issue of October 1 it is written about me. Elena Afanasyeva writes: “A strong player who calls his opponents idiots and goat-faced degenerates... Resentment, rage, inability to restrain oneself, coupled with...

Everything has been rebuilt here. The last tent left Lensk was handed over virtually. With the help of space communication created a "presence effect". The city was in figures and diagrams behind Shoigu's back, the city was on paper. There was a feeling that the minister did not ...

The editor-in-chief of the Ryazan issue and his family almost died in their own apartment. Journalists have become accustomed to everything: threats on the phone, shots at point-blank range and in the back, "attacks" by unknown muzzles - it seemed that there was not a single one ...

Network of philosophical cafes in the USA We are people of extremes. For example, our attitude towards foreigners is almost never adequate, moving from obsequious to boorish and vice versa. We can do the same - here it is, the breadth of nature! - treat whole...

Jean Anouille Antigone. Stage director - Temur Chkheidze. Set Designer - Giorgi Aleksi-Meskhishvili. Moscow Art Theater named after A.P. Chekhov Antigone girl with greetings what are you plotting under a comb who hurt you with a concrete wall, you will even end ...

I AM A JEW AND HAVE NEVER MET WITH BIN LADEN FROM OUR DOSSIER MOGILEVICH Semyon Yudkovich was born on June 30, 1946 in Kyiv. He has a higher economic education. Citizen of Israel and Hungary. Married. Four children. Permanently resides in...

Our players have already won the World Cup! Manoel Francisco dos Santos (or simply Garrinchi) had one leg twelve centimeters longer than the other. What did not stop him from turning into a legend of world football and inventing...

We continue to publish the diary of our special correspondent Igor Maslov. On the way from Moscow to Moscow, he has already passed a dozen or two states. Before you are fragments of his rafting on the Yukon on June 4th. In the backyard of Nulato, there was a Russian...

Let's start with the fact that nothing special happened. To be honest, I was somewhat surprised at the importance that many Russian media attach to President Bush's statement about the need to create a Palestinian state. Those who...

A BOOK IS A MIRACLE OF COMMUNICATION WITH A STRANGER What textbooks are needed? I have a dream - about three textbooks for elementary grades. Here are the authors of this genre, I would elect at the state level. With a very high premium. With great respect...

Although everyone who could, left here, this is not Chechnya. In this city there are houses without windows, without doors. There are very few local people left here: everyone who could leave has left. But it's not Grozny. This is the city that Grozny built - Tsar Ivan IV ...

President Bush said last Tuesday that the United States is potentially ready to consider recognizing the Palestinian Authority as a state. “The idea of ​​an independent Palestinian state has always been part of the vision of the problem – so...

A small figure - even with a tummy - does not inspire confidence How boring it became with the departure of the outstanding political simulator V.V. Zhirinovsky. The presence of such figures is necessary - this must be recognized. Without them, there is no stage, no game, and...