Introduction On the screens of Europe and America there is a French film "Train of Life" director-Romanian Rada Mikhailian ; The tape was awarded the prize of the audience sympathies at the 1999 Sandance festival , critics award at the Venice Festival, as well as a dozen other awards at the International Film Festival (including Donatello for the best foreign film).

Falconry: eighteenth review, dedicated to grumbling and mutations, mythological and cosmogonic, Akhmatova in pants and Pasternak without pants Yana Sokolova Publication date: August 1, 2000 Serious -super-serious Danila Davydov from “Vestey.ru” wrote about the serious-very-serious essay by I.S. Skoropanova “Russian Postmodernist Literature” (M.: Flinta - Nauka).

The Lvov publishing house with the pretentious name "Center of Europe" has released several historical and local history books and guidebooks on Lviv and the surroundings. The books are wonderful, among other things, an indication of the "first edition": i.e. It is not the second edition that calls itself the second, looking back, and the first, not looking anywhere, with rare modesty and without regard to the book publishing tradition, calls itself the first.

Prodigies don't make it through life's universities David Robertson Publication date: August 2, 2000 Prodigies - well, I have to use this rather hackneyed word - are nothing new. The centuries-old history of Western European civilization knows many people of exceptional intelligence, who at a very early age showed the maturity of scientific thinking - some of the great minds of the Renaissance were such miracle children in their time.

Eternal friendship for Askar Akayev? Alexey Grekov Publication date: August 1, 2000 President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, receiving the President of Kyrgyzstan Askar Akaev during his first official visit to Moscow, thanked him and the deputies of the Kyrgyz parliament for recently adopting a law on the state status of the Russian language in this country.

Bulgarian politicians are at loggerheads over the Jewish issue Vitaly Portnikov Publication date: August 2, 2000 The miraculous rescue of 50,000 Bulgarian Jews during the Second World War can be considered one of the most impressive pages of military history: despite the persistent demands of the Reich , the Bulgarian government allied to it did not dare to deport the Jews to the “death camps” . The Bulgarian Jewish community was completely preserved.