Globe: strange new No Roman Leibov Publication date: June 7, 2000 Somehow , the fanfare that proclaimed a new era of globalization, associated with the entry of the Internet into the cultural arena as a supranational, uncontrolled creative space, quietly died down. It’s been a long time since I’ve come across the comical phrase “global village ,” which sounded so romantic and loud just three or four years ago. However, who was screaming? And in what language? Of course, in English.

Red-Net? Sergey Kirukhin Publication date: May 29, 2000 Something about the experience of Chinese comrades on the Internet Last week, the process of normalizing trade and economic relations between China and the United States ended. A little earlier, the same thing happened with the European Union, and now the path to the WTO is open for China. The successful vote in the US Congress has already been hailed as an outstanding achievement in American international politics.

Love us in Russian... Rebekah Frumkina Publication date: May 29, 2000 It is well known that the most difficult thing to do is become an observer in relation to your own culture. Russian culture of the last two centuries is our own. Its cultural agent, the one closest to us, is the Russian intelligentsia. Nowadays it is customary to talk about it either stupidly or dirty.

Georgy Adamovich. Collection op. Comments. - St. Petersburg: Aletheia, 2000. Some changeability of assessments, opinions and judgments is not the result of their general instability and even less of “whim,” as is often claimed: for some it is incomprehensible, for others it is inevitable. And those for whom it is inevitable only shrug their hands in response to reproaches: how could it be otherwise? Aren’t other great, even immortal works written in the form of dialogues? G. Adamovich .