Calendar of upcoming events January 25 - 31, 1999 We present to your attention a list of expected events for the period January 25 - 31, 1999. You can choose the most interesting of them. We, in turn, will follow the development of events that are interesting to you in news releases , and the most significant of them will be accompanied by expert comments. January 24, Sunday Visit of US Secretary of Agriculture D. Glickman (until January 26).

Seine, issue 22: Writers, black mark, the role of personality in Runet, sex torturer from Cyberspace Andrey Travin andrew@guitar.ru Writer's birthday On January 16, in the studio of A. Lebedev, the birthday of the Norwegian Forester was celebrated, who, among other things, responds to the word “writer”. There were many guests - probably even more than at N.L.’s birthday last year.

Letter from Sinai Marina Pavlovskaya Greetings to you, O singer of the desert, from the desert - but different. I'm in Sinai. N asked: “Is it different from the American one?” - “Yes, everything is different: the color, the shape of the mountains, the air.” But the main thing, judging by your articles , here in America, the eternal alignment has developed differently: nature and man.

Russia Ukraine Ukraine gave away 8 airplanes for gas /06.08/ July Stepashin and Ukrainian speaker /16.07/ May External debt of Ukraine /21.05/ Elections in Ukraine /20.05/ 9 Ukrainian candidates /18.05/ April Yeltsin and Kuchma /01.04/ March 78% of the Russian Federation consider Sevastopol Russian /26.02/ The treaty was ratified with Primakov’s reservations /17.02/ The Federation Council decided to vote for ratification /17.02/ Moscow attacks Northern Fleet?

I.A.Bunin Journalism 1918-1953 Under the general editorship of O.N. Mikhailov. - M.: Heritage, 1998. - 640 p.; circulation 1000 copies; ISBN 5-201-1326-6. Russia! Who dares to teach me love for her? I. Bunin. Mission of the Russian emigration. "Homeless Russian word..." Russia , Russian, Russian - love, with love, about love. Not the opposition, but the core of the fate of the great writer Ivan Bunin .

VDNKh - the capital of the world Andrey Monastyrsky - What kind of balloons are these? - Dunno was surprised. Snowflake and Blue Eyes laughed. “These are watermelons,” they said. -Have you never seen watermelons? N. Nosov. The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends Bull on the roof Title of a ballet suite by Darius Milhaud Bryndi, bryndi, balalaika The hostess sits under the table, There is a war on the table - The devils are chasing the sorcerer.

V. Berezhkov. Stalin is nearby. - M.: Vagrius, 1998. - 480 p.; circulation 11,000 copies; ISBN 5-7027-0860-1. personal translator for four years in the early 40s The author of the book, Valentin Berezhkov (1916-1998), worked as Stalin’s . In this capacity, he participated in negotiations between the heads of state of the anti-Hitler coalition and witnessed the “internal” life of the Kremlin elite.