At least 34 people were injured as a result of explosions that thundered on Monday evening in the Israeli Primorsky city of Natany. Explosive devices laid in cars have expectedly worked. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak called an emergency meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers to discuss response measures. All Monday in the Palestinian territories there was a shootout. On the western coast of Jordan, four Palestinians died in a battle with Israeli troops - including two police officers.

Of the cultural reactions to the events of September 11, the most dumbfounded, simply speaking scandalous, the words of the German composer Karlhainz Shtokhausen were the words of the German composer. It is considered one of the three whales of modern musical avant -garde, along with Pierre Boulez and Luigi Nono.

In Tehran, the trial of special services that killed several Iranian human rights defenders in 1998 resumed today. The preliminary investigation lasted more than two years. The court passes with closed doors. On the bench of the defendants - 18 people. One of the main accused - a certain Megdad Alikhani - said in court that the decisions on the murders were made "collectively".

The start of the Paris-Dakar is launched. A mileage of 11 thousand kilometers began today at the Eiffel Tower. 360 cars participate in it. The highway passes through the territory of France and Spain, and then through the deserts of West Africa.

Members of the Russian Legislative Corps, in the collapse of the Duma, do not allow the public to get bored. Whatever day is a sensation, at least on the first page. Recently, for example, on June 13, the leaders of the four Duma factions at once proposed establishing the days of the military glory of Russia in commemoration of the victories of the Russian troops over German knights, Mongol-Tatars, Swedes and Turks.

Neo -Nazism in Germany raises his head, ”said the speaker of the Bundestag Wolfgang Tyrze on New Year's Eve. According to the speaker, the total number of crimes committed by the extreme right in 2000, including arson, attacks and acts of vandalism, is approaching twelve thousand. Killed - at least ten people. These figures are the highest since the time of the unification of Germany in 1990.

The incident in New York puts in a difficult situation of anyone who should talk from America about Russian issues. Such a conversation will involuntarily seem - or it turns out - irrelevant. As the French newspaper Mond wrote these days: we are all Americans today. I do not think that in Russia a similar feeling is so unanimously divided; There is information convinced of the opposite. Nevertheless, no one will undertake to deny that Russia is not used to such misfortunes and disasters.

On the southern shores of Turkey, near the resort of Kemer, the Pati cargo vessel, which floated under the flag of Georgia, crashed. The dry truck stumbled upon the underwater reef and sank. Rescuers caught the body of four dead out of the water. Z9 people survived. At least forty - are listed as missing. The Turkish police suspect that illegal immigrants were on board.

(to the 80th anniversary of the death of Blok) It turned 80 since the death of Alexander Blok. A sad anniversary cannot be silent: the block has not lost its primary cultural interest for Russia. And not only cultural: it is forever connected with the topic of Russian fate. Moreover, this interest is aggravated in that Russia that Blok has not found - in the post -Soviet one.

In America, shortly before the New Year, he was released and unexpectedly went well the film about the famous Marquise de Sade - in some way, an inventor of sexual perversion (which received, in any case, his name). Why was the success of the film unexpected and what is this success? The film was in New York in only two exquisite cinemas (the institution of the so -called Art Houses), but the people walked and walked, and the distributors eventually saw the market potency of this thing.

The President of Yugoslavia Voislav Koshtunitsa said that the coming year will be the time of "healing and purification" of Yugoslavia from the consequences of the reign of Slobodan Milosevich. In the New Year's appeal, Koshtunitsa said that now in Yugoslavia there are basic conditions for creating a democratic legal state. He admitted that it would not be easy to find a solution to the problem of relations between Serbia and Montenegrin.

On February 19, it was the date of a certain anniversary, which, I think, few remembered the Russians who were concerned about the current everyday life. Meanwhile, we are talking about an event with a grandiose, which has changed for the time the lifestyle of the bulk of the Russian people. This is the liberation of the peasants, the destruction of serfdom, peasant reform on February 19, 1861.

All over the world, the offensive of the new 2001 was marked by celebrations and festivities. Pope John Pavel the Second at the solemn mass in the Vatican wished humanity "peace, justice, fraternity and prosperity." The pontiff called for the Israelis and Palestinians to put an end to the "painful conflict" on the Holy Land and enter into dialogue. In Argentina, the New Year's offensive was marked by the tango festival.

In a very famous American magazine Atlantic Montley, the organ, rather literary than political, in the issue for May of this year, the article by Jeffrey Tayler appeared - an article that is difficult not to talk about because of its name: “Contained Russia”. Who is JEFFRI TYELER to give out such not even forecasts, but statements?

This year is the double anniversary of Konstantin Leontyev: 170 years since the birth and 110 from the day of death. A mysterious cultural reactionary, Russian Nietzsche survived a short posthumous glory: by the efforts of the figures of the Russian cultural renaissance of the early twentieth century, he was nevertheless introduced into the cultural turnover of that doubtful time.