Igor Artemyev has clearly moved closer to the governor’s chair, but virtually. Since the ratings of other candidates are simply terrible, Artemyev is legitimately considered one of the main rivals of the current governor Yakovlev in the election race. In the last primary elections of the single candidate from the democratic forces, he managed to win, which, in general, is not surprising.

Interpol, issue three, post-holiday Ivan Davydov Publication date: May 5, 2000 A sip of ether... Actually, they either snort it or go into it. True, they are still being released, but we will wait. Yes, a breath of ether between two long dives into the holidays. With whom - past and future - please accept my sincere and heartfelt wishes. And also an apology for the inconsistency and frivolity of all the following. It's the season because it's like that.

Michelle Tournier. Tsar of the Forest: Novel / Transl. from fr. I. Volevich, A. Davydova. - St. Petersburg: Amphora, 2000. For unknown reasons, for quite a long time, the interest of domestic translators in Michel Tournier was accompanied by a fatal publishing inability to choose a cover appropriate for the occasion. The situation is obviously serious, since, having started to correct the situation, the publishing house "Amphora" made a mistake - this time - with the reference apparatus.

Michelle Tournier. Tsar of the Forest: Novel / Transl. from fr. I. Volevich, A. Davydova. - St. Petersburg: Amphora, 2000. What if we forget about Tournier - the supplier of manna for modern philosophical thought, and try to perceive the novel phenomenologically - in the brilliance and completeness of the prose itself, and not intertextual lightning? Nothing will work out.

Chasing the Sun - 10 Alexander Zaitsev Publication date: May 5, 2000 Advice from a Brahmin guru Somewhere around the end of a full course of secondary school, the question of the meaning of life is put aside as rationally incomprehensible. “I don’t have to know the meaning of life.

No italics Olga Kabanova Publication date: May 5, 2000 . This time there will be no italics The authors of press reviews about culture in RJ are in a serious crisis. They are unable to obtain an objective review from the press. At Pospelov’s last multi-volume burst about the Golden Mask press, the leading columns froze. It is impossible to pull this level out - the load is too great.

Mountains and weapons Boris Kuzminsky Publication date: May 5, 2000 I Covering yesterday's presentation of the Alexander Solzhenitsyn Prize to Valentin Rasputin, Kommersant reporter Alexei Karakhan climbs to such heights of ignorant rudeness that even against the persistent background of squeamish dislike for all and every kind of literature and selfless love for all and all kinds of mountaineering, characteristic of the literary section of this newspaper, his note is a real Elbrus.