Russian Journal / Reading Circle / Century=text www.russ.ru/krug/vek/20000915.html Century=text. Issue 27: 1927 Egor Otroshchenko Date of publication: September 15, 2000 POEM OF THE YEAR | EVENTS | CHARACTERS AND PERFORMERS Poem of the Year Epilogue The show is over. It's time. Things look clearer and sadder. The sound of a human ax rings. The mountain speaks to Prometheus, The kite looks into the eyes of Prometheus. Woe!

Compare two pictures and find ten differences Alla Yarho Date of publication: September 15, 2000 The common people of different countries are actually no different from each other. I was once traveling on a train through the country of Great Britain and there I got into a conversation with a drunken Scotsman who called both his wife and his Queen the same short, indecent word. The inspectors came in, and he told them that he “either lost or forgot to buy” the ticket.

Games having forgotten yours Lev Kassil. Conduit and Schwambrania Olga Prokhorova Date of publication: September 15, 2000 As a child, I half-consciously divided books into two categories: those approved by dad and those not approved.

Interpol, issue twenty-two: Operation plan to undermine the moral potential of the fatherland Ivan Davydov Date of publication: September 15, 2000 Prelude: Dorenko, FSB and Swiss watches Sergei Dorenko remained newsmaker number one throughout the week.

Simplicity is enough for every wise man EU sanctions against Austria ended in failure Sergey Kirukhin Date of publication: September 15, 2000 This week, what has been obvious for quite some time has finally received formal expression. The EU sanctions against Austria adopted at the beginning of the year ordered us to live for a long time without ever regaining consciousness. Because consciousness was absent at all stages of the ghostly existence of this political freak.

After the death of the owner, Galina Ulanova’s apartment in one of the famous Stalinist skyscrapers went to the Bolshoi Theater. Public opinion wanted to turn this apartment into a memorial to the great ballerina - another museum object of no particular interest to anyone, of which there are many scattered throughout Moscow (and throughout St. Petersburg too). The theater had the floor. But the theater did not pronounce it. The fate of the apartment has not yet been decided.

Cannibalism is such a terrible phenomenon that even just talking about it is scary. That is probably why there is an unspoken taboo on his image and any discussions about him. Despite the fact that cannibalism (and any practicing criminologist will confirm this to you) is not such a rare phenomenon, in the modern literary and cinematic tradition it remains the lot of ethnographic natives, the giant Blinderbore and polar explorers lost in the ice.