What did the Russian electorate stand for last Sunday? Sergey Zemlyanoy Publication date: March 28, 2000 Presidential elections as a moral event What cannot be spoken about must be kept silent about. Here old Ludwig Wittgenstein is absolutely right. And I won't argue with him about this. So much has already been said about the Russian Presidential elections that took place on the third day that it is almost impossible to talk about them. Almost.

Cultural guide. Issue 73 Sergey Kuznetsov Publication date: March 28, 2000 Interactive The singer Zemfira always annoyed me has been annoying me lately was always indifferent I've become indifferent lately I always liked it I've started to like it lately That's great Well, if anyone wants to add something... Name E-mail Movie Beauty more American Of the eight possible Oscars, Sam Mendes' film received five.

Capacitor Idea and Implementation: Linor Goralik Literary project-game Warning There is absolutely no strength to talk about the end of the century. From the "Magic of Round numbers", used in most undertakings of the last year in a wide variety of fields, blood becomes in veins. Messages about the approach of the end of the world are perceived as a everyday phenomenon and cause a joke in memory about the paratrooper that has finally removed all.

Who can predict Natalya Shakhova Publication date: March 28, 2000 - Can you play the violin? - I don’t know, I haven’t tried it, but I’ve seen it many times and I think it will work. For some reason, everyone laughs at the ambitions of a violinist candidate, but if the art of music is replaced by the art of translation (I, they say, have read a lot of translations and think that I can be a translator), then the statement seems more plausible.

Chinese diary Artem Druzhinenko Publication date: March 28, 2000 Path Anyone who has not traveled in a common carriage in China is unlikely to know this country to the end, or rather to the bottom, in the sociological sense of the word. When you travel on a domestic train from the border to Beijing, there is still the illusion that nothing much has changed, that you seem to still be at home.

About our choice (instead of a review) Andrei Madison Publication date: March 28, 2000 I remember that in the best times for Literaturka there was the following picture embossed there: a typewriter with a piece of paper inserted into the carriage, which read: “Typically, the Volga flows into the Caspian Sea...”. The picture was intended to symbolize banality and cliché - both the thoughts and the style of some of our literary scholars and critics.

State power in a new version Lee S.

Today's issue will be short and crumpled, as it turned out two hours ago that I had to fly to Bologna tonight. Neither give nor take - “to Paris in the case of urgent” ... Honestly, I conceived this trip on Wednesday, but I had large problems with the Pope: he deigned to trample from the Holy Land back to Italy the day before yesterday, and now all 150 thousand or how much their pilgrims were sluggishly stretched after him, to his native lands.

Asar Eppel. Champignon of my life. - M.: Vagrius, 2000. Oh, if I could understand all this, The sawdust would be in order! Otherwise it’s mysterious to me! - sleepy From all these Difficult Riddles! The book consists of two cycles of stories: “Grass Street” and “The Champignon of My Life” itself, the name of which comes from the story of the same name, which is no coincidence. This story is the center of both the cycle and the entire book as a whole.

Rashid Nugmanov - film director and one of the authors of "Arba" Tasks of the post-election period. In the first months, while various options for Russia’s strategic development are being developed and assessed, further actions will be necessary to maintain the high rating of Putin and now his team. Broad support from the elites and masses will be needed when a new program is announced, otherwise there will be general cooling and, as a consequence, a sharp strengthening of opposition groups.

Austrian impasse in European politics Sergey Kirukhin Publication date: March 28, 2000 The meeting of the heads of state of the European Union in Lisbon confirmed the impression that had already arisen: European politicians in relations with Austria have driven themselves into a dead end, from which there is still no way out.