Residents of the city of Leninsk-Kuznetsky, Kemerovo region, record letters to Chechnya on audio cassettes The action "Letter to a Soldier" is organized by the local fund of youth initiatives. The new form of the epistolary genre enjoys popularity for the second year. IN...

Fazil ISKANDER: I really liked Olga Slavnikova's story "The Immortal", published in the October magazine, No. 6, 2001. It is good because the author really cleverly talks about the dramatic conditions of the life of his hero, ...

Excerpt from the novel Vadim Mesyats was born in Tomsk in 1964. Graduated from Tomsk University. PhD in physics. Sciences. He is the author of four books of poetry and two books of prose. Laureate of the network literary competition "Catch" in 2001. Winner of the American...

Yanka Diaghileva's legacy book published Judging by the events of recent years, people are finally bored with the chatter that the worthy leave first. Now this hypothesis is understood in the spirit of the time: the masters of "chilling phonograms" arrange ...

Valery Meladze's new song is called “Let's hide tears from strangers.” Fyodor Bondarchuk has his own style - he shoots “in one take”. No montages for you. The artist ran along the route conceived by the director (i.e. clip maker) - ...

The ministers of education and culture are performing alternative service to the Fatherland As is known, at the last meeting of the government, the draft law on...

Novaya Gazeta continues its action against street raids on conscripts Do you remember how the police chiefs rejoiced at the unexpected fashion to serve in Russian "authorities"? The secret of popularity was as simple as a rubber club. Turns out,...

You have the opportunity to start a virtual diary online Friends Morning Zhezhe begins with a crawl in Zhezhe. From the check: no one dashed off anything to them in response to their little notes. Then there is a check to see if others have any...

Gangster Petrograd, Leningrad, St. Petersburg ... or 80 years of the Tambov group Before you is an excerpt from the manuscript of Elena IGNATOVA "Notes on St. Petersburg", based on archives, memoirs, newspaper materials of the 20-30s. This is a continuation....

The Seventh Festival of Archival Film "White Pillars" -2002 has ended. The film forum "without stars and tuxedos" in White Pillars willingly attracts professionals: critics, film historians and theorists, practitioners represented by directors and producers. "Old"...