Expert's opinion Ilya Kudryavtsev Ideological okroshka Classic schemes of political classification, such as “right -handed”, “conservative - progressive” and others are untenable in relation to the modern alignment of forces in the USSR; They are not able to adequately describe the complex range of political forces, such as "memory", the CPSU, and the democratic movement.

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ESSAY Door (Gleb Pavlovsky, "Chistor's Child", # 4/90) I read with interest in # 4/90 of the essay "Chistor's Chistor" and risk reproaching the author in a superficial acquaintance with one detail of our common story. The author writes: "The door with the" Watchmaker Lurie "I ran, hurrying to the tram, although the Germans had long been taken away and killed this Lurie ..." Reality, however, was less ordinar.

George Soros George Soros was born in 1930 in Budapest. During the war, his family had to share the suffering of European Jewry. With great difficulty, the Soros disappeared from occupied Hungary. After emigrating to England, J.

Igor Shevelev Born in 1952 in Moscow. In 1976 he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University. Journalist. Columnist for Obshchaya Gazeta. Published in Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Ogonyok, Profile, and Professional. Publications in Russian Journal

EVIL OF THE DAY Andrey Novikov Senate again POLITICS IN POSTMODERN STYLE Postmodernity is the political culture of the post-communist era. The syncretism of a wide variety of political styles and historical subjects is the cultural and historical palette from which the new Russian statehood is created.

LIBERATORS Sergey Chernyshev Uninhibited Pterodactyl The Secret Power of Abstractions I am skeptical about political predictions as a genre in Russian reality. The common feature of 99.9% of the forecasts that the press and television feed us is that they hit the mark.

Mikhail Yakovlevich Wiesel viesel@glasnet.ru Translator from Italian and English, literary journalist, photographer. Born in 1970 in Moscow. In 1992 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering, in 1998 he graduated from the Literary Institute. Gorky, seminar of translators of Italian literature E.M. Solonovich.

Yuri Leiderman Born in 1963 in Odessa. Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology. In 1994, his “Paris-Jurassic Road (fragments)” was published in France, and three years later, in St. Petersburg, the book “Names of Electrons”. Published in "Art Magazine", magazines "Art of Cinema", "Press Place". Publications in Russian Journal

Marat Gelman gallery@guelman.ru Born in 1960 in Chisinau. In 1983 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Communications. Since 1988, he has been collecting works of contemporary art and organizing exhibitions. In 1990 he founded one of the first private galleries in Moscow. Marat Guelman Gallery is a leader in all rating lists based on such indicators of professional work as the level of artists' skill, the art of organizing exhibitions and commercial results.

ESSAY Anthony Burges Democracy and violence Summer causes fatigue, laziness and a breakdown in good citizens. It pushes bad citizens to antisocial acts. In France, youth gangs made robberies with injuries and intentional arson, in Germany - the robbery of the bank with the capture of hostages, with the murder and illegal crossing of the border.

SPACE Yuri Kobishcheanov The decay of space is the revival of civilizations? Fracture lines Over the past hundred years, it has been the collapse of the great empires: Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Japanese, British, French, Portuguese and, finally, Sovetskaya, has been taking place for about equal breaks. The current collapse of decays is the most grandiose, and moreover, special: the iron hoops burst, pulling the former communist states.

"Dear edition ..." Why is the market honesty Alexander Yusupovsky, Moscow For national democracy Arnold Anchukin-Timofeev, Moscow Vigilant V.A. Abankin, G. Rostov Professoring the rulers? Lev Sigal, Moscow Why is the market honesty Renamation of realities psychologically reconciles a person with what he would never have resigned if things were called his names. The "farm" treats completely different than "commerce", but to "erotica" - not like "porn".

RESIDENT CARD Alexander Vysokovsky Architecture of ruin Lost Wednesdays of the sixties Part one Part two I. INTRODUCTION About two years ago a group of deputies from the Zelenograd City Council came to our institute. They turned to me with a request to “take over” their city, to develop a concept for its development. This was something new - orders for such work usually came from the ministry or city authorities.

What happened was "The idea in whose name is the death is red" Interview with political scientist A. Avtokhanov Abdurakhman Autokhanov is one of the significant figures of Russian intellectual abroad. The name of this venerable councilist, a native of Chechen -Ingushetia, if it was mentioned in our press, then until recently - not otherwise than through his teeth (at one time A.