Without a king (in my head too) Dmitry Shusharin Publication date: July 21, 2000 When the sovereign goes on vacation to a “remote province by the sea” and then goes to the Far East, life in the capital does not calm down. Not to mention the rebel provinces. However, first things first. The absolute similarity between the two conflicts of the week is thought-provoking and leads to conclusions. Sad or not sad, I don’t know. Simple: it is what it is.

President's mistake Sergey Usoltsev Publication date: July 21, 2000 For the president today, the priority task is to restore controllability of the country. This task is obvious for the post-Yeltsin era. If Luzhkov, Primakov or anyone else had been in Putin’s place, he would have done the same thing, although perhaps using different methods.

Competition program of the XXII MIFF. "Famous Paparazzi" and "Shadows of Memories" Gleb Sitkovsky Publication date: July 21, 2000 “The Famous Paparazzi ,” a film by Romanian Nicolae Marghineanu, which opened the competition program, was predicted by some to be a “dark horse” before the festival began.

Newsmaker as owner and distributor of information Incident and remarks of Boris Berezovsky Sergey Zemlyanoy Publication date: July 21, 2000 One of the best definitions of history that I know goes something like this: history is a conversation that we ourselves have. By us, that is, historically living people, history, as it were, speaks out (or is spoken out), so what it really is. Hic et nunc.

Predatory man I.S. Turgenev. Fathers and Sons Dmitry Ivanov Publication date: July 21, 2000 I remember the image of Bazarov from my school days, or more precisely, from the time when, having graduated from the eighth grade of a very unloved high school, I ran away from it to the local mining technical school, where all my further literature lessons took place.

President's dilemma Russian society is waiting for changes. The appearance of the figure of a new president against the backdrop of the end of the twentieth century is largely a symbolic act, indicating the possibility of the emergence of new meanings and a new will 1 .

“Breaking the Rules” by Tinto Brass and “Taboo” by Nagisa Oshima are two films from the Moscow festival program that would be a sin not to watch. In addition to the similarity in titles and the equally scandalous names of both directors, these two absolutely opposite films are also united by the fact that we traditionally love the moralist Oshima and the hedonist Brass, and for about the same thing. They love it for belonging to the taboo “wrong” cinema and killer sex scenes.

Prelude: Debts Outputs and libations related to a very relative three -year anniversary distracted me last time from current affairs. And now it's time to pay. Last week, an article was published on the media.ru website, shocked your humble servant to the core. It is called - "Prospects of network journalism in Russia." The author is Igor Oleinik.

Mikhail Kasyanov also does not want to do anything against Ukraine Vitaly Portnikov Publication date: July 21, 2000 The one-day visit of Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko to the Russian capital only confirmed - despite all the optimistic reviews at the end of the meeting of prime ministers - that Moscow and Kiev have completely different assessments of the problem of Ukrainian debt for Russian energy resources.

Falconry: review twelfth, dedicated to a surprisingly empty, mushroom hunt, inarticulate muttering, the hero of a beautiful legend and the fact that living life is not a field to cross Yana Sokolova Publication date: July 21, 2000 It’s still nice to read something meaningful, but not too abstruse, understandable to a young girl. Your head becomes clearer, the longing disguised as love goes away, life becomes brighter before your eyes. And you feel three pennies more expensive.