Omazh Yuri Gendler You can also listen to this program in the Realaudio Fromat: - Listen immediately or - unload for local listening Alexander Genis: The hardest thing is to say compliments to the wife and the authorities, for the same reasons: on the one hand, it is believed that everything is clear, on the other hand, it is easy to suspect self -interest.

Participants in the conversation: Alexander Yakulov (musician); Vyacheslav Sysoev (artist artist); Vadim Kosmachev (sculptor) For some reason, the experience of the Gulag does not become a Russian western. It is long to be, because Western is an entertaining genre. And yet entertainment does not come out of the Gulag. This conversation is about creativity, one way or another connected with the camp and prison. Let's start with the sculptor. His name is Vadim Kosmachev .

The magazine "Sayens" published a hypothesis explaining the most important property of living molecules. Construction blocks of natural proteins and nucleic acids are not combined with their mirror display. All amino acids have left orientation, and all sugar in the DNA is right. Astronomers from several countries came to the conclusion that such asymmetry is associated with space factors.

Julia Silaeva in a radio play based on the play by Nikolai Focht - Songs and Fire of Violetta.

Basketball . On Thursday, at the World Cup in Athens, matches of the second round were held. The Russian team met with European champions Yugoslavs and after a draw in the main time 68:68 lost in overtime - 74:82. In another meeting in the group "in" the Puerto Rico national team beat the Japanese - 78:57. After two rounds, Yugoslavia has two victories, Russians and Puerto Rikans have one at a time. Today they meet among themselves.

Boris Yeltsin -satisfied with the activities of Anatoly Chubais as a special representative of the President of Russia for relations with international financial institutions, ”the press service of the head of state shared. At today's meeting with Yeltsin in Gorki-9, which lasted three hours, Chubais submitted a detailed report on the results of negotiations with world financial institutions and on the implementation of the agreements reached.

The head of the Russian State Service Boris Fedorov said that tax revenues to the budget in July will amount to about 12 billion rubles. According to him, this is about half a billion rubles more than in June. Fedorov believes that in August the increase in tax collection will also amount to half a billion rubles.

Russian President Yeltsin meets with Anatoly Chubais, his special representative in relations with international financial organizations. They discuss Russia's fulfillment of obligations related to obtaining a loan of the IMF. Today, Deputy Head of the International Monetary Fund Stanley Fisher arrives in Moscow. During the two -day visit, Fisher will consider the anti -crisis measures taken by the Russian leadership necessary to obtain the next part of the loan.

“ My father told me that at the height of the war, one of his friends said: Stalin and Hitler graduated from one school, only went to different doors ," - writes Mrs. Ismailov from the Crimea. Yes, Mrs. Ismailova, before the war and during the war in the Soviet Union, there were many people who understood it as clearly as your father's friend. There were fewer such in the post -war generation.

The shooting of the Russian-Ukrainian thirty-eight-class film "Burge's Birthday" is completed . The main character of the film is a successful entrepreneur, a former orphanage nicknamed Bourgeois. The genre of the television series is "soap opera." The UN Secretary General handed the American actor and producer Michael Douglas Gramotot about the assignment of the title of "Messenger of the World" to Douglas.

Basketball. On Friday, at the World Cup in Athens, games of the third, final round of the qualification round were held. The Russian team, which performed in group "B", met with Puerto Rikans and won with a score of 86:73. In another match of this group, the Yugoslavs defeated the Japanese - 99:54. Thus, the teams of Yugoslavia reached the second stage - with two victories, Russia - with one victory and Puerto Rico.

YULIA SILAEVA IN A RADIO PERFORMANCE BASED ON NIKOLAY FOHTA'S PLAY - VIOLETTA'S SONGS AND FIRE.

Participants in the conversation: Alexander Yakulov (musician); Vyacheslav Sysoev (artist artist); Vadim Kosmachev (sculptor) For some reason, the experience of the Gulag does not become a Russian western. It is long to be, because Western is an entertaining genre. And yet entertainment does not come out of the Gulag. This conversation is about creativity, one way or another connected with the camp and prison. Let's start with the sculptor. His name is Vadim Kosmachev .