Theater "Millionaire" B. Shaw, director - Vladimir Mirzoev The director, together with pundits from the “Independent Theater Project”, defined the genre of his performance as “steB.Show”. Actually, Mirzoev had previously staged plays by playwrights Stebgogol, Stebturgenev and StebShakespeare, so Shaw found himself in good company. Vladimir Mirzoev brought with him the artists of the Stanislavsky Theater, who played with him in The Taming of the Shrew and Twelfth Night.

20 options for the end of the world This article received the largest number of reader votes Corey Powell Date of publication: October 31, 2000 Needless to say, we worked hard. Over the five hundred thousand years of the existence of homo sapiens, we have built huge cities, invented complex languages, and even sent reconnaissance robots to other planets. It is difficult to imagine that all this activity will come to an end.

Reading Diary Mikhail Yampolsky Dear reader! You can enter into a debate with the author of this article, write about it, which will be published on this page. Dear Mikhail The review of Friedrich's painting "The Monk...", in which the cut off eyelids seems to be by Kleist, which is also great... although maybe I'm wrong. Sincerely, zazoo ly a 31.10.2000 12:7 zazoo ly a Moscow, Russia.

Lenin and the "third way" of Russia Non-holiday reflections on the occasion of November 7 Sergey Zemlyanoy Date of publication: October 31, 2000 Nikolai Kavalerov in Yuri Olesha’s wonderful story “Envy” was extremely worried about the fact that a person is surrounded by small inscriptions. A scattered anthill of small inscriptions. Nobody notices them. They are fighting for existence, rebelling - class against class.

15. [The rooster] raises its voice, [meeting] the morning dawn: 16. “Arise, O people! <...> [Otherwise] the long-armed Bushyasta will come to you, who puts all living creatures to sleep as soon as they wake up before dark, [saying]: <...> “Sleep some more, man, not yet [time]". <...> 20. Summons fire <...>: 21. “Help! Farmer raising livestock, rise up, put on your clothes, wash your hands, get firewood, bring it here so that I can burn again <...>.” <...> 26.

According to scripture - 5 Ilya Lepikhov Date of publication: October 31, 2000 The thirties-fifties of the last century would certainly have gone down in history as the “Pan-Slavic decades” if in the future the Slavs had emerged as a community akin to the Germans, Latins, and North Europeans. But, since this did not happen, we will have to be content with little: the memory of what could have happened, but did not happen.

After the spanking Leila Guchmazova Date of publication: October 31, 2000 Bearded joke. At the Bolshoi Theater box office, a respectable gentleman whines through the window: “Girl, I’m an old Russian intellectual... Find a couple of tickets... I’m an old Russian intellectual... A couple of tickets...” The cashier is adamant, time is ticking.

Winners: Ibrahim Rugova Vitaly Portnikov Date of publication: October 31, 2000 Having learned about the impressive victory of the Democratic Union of Kosovo in the first democratic local government elections in the region , I was not even happy for the party of the long-time leader of the Kosovo Albanians, Ibrahim Rugova.

The Ministry of Antimonopoly Policy has calculated that with time-based payment for telephone conversations, on average in Russia, a minute will cost 6 kopecks . And at the same time , they tell us that the introduction of time-based work will not affect the development of the Internet. Starting November 9, RosNIIROS makes changes to its already mysterious regulations .

Eduard Limonov: “Putin will rule as long as he wants” Alexander Voznesensky Date of publication: October 31, 2000 At the beginning of autumn, the St. Petersburg publishing house Limbus Press published the memoirs of Eduard Limonov, The Book of the Dead . Memoirs - literary, personal, political and other - are dedicated mainly to people who have already passed away. Hence the name.

“All aesthetes are homosexuals,” argued the historiographer Vodicka. In the same discourse, but with greater proximity to the truth, I will report that all intellectuals are Gnostics. Like Yegor Gaidar, for example, who, coming to the podium at the moment of his confirmation as prime minister, answered a question from the audience about his religious affiliation that he was rather a Gnostic. Borges is also a Gnostic. Let's prove it.

In the World with Hiphop and Heidegger Charles Mudede The Stranger What do Heidegger and hip-hop have in common? It turns out that not only that both words begin with the letter "x". It is not known what kind of music the German philosopher was pinning, but the author of the article specifically proves that the philosophy of rap is one to one with the early Heidegger. At least if we take Being and Time ( Sein und Zeit , 1927).

Winners: Rolandas Paksas Vitaly Portnikov Date of publication: October 31, 2000 The new Prime Minister of Lithuania is perhaps one of the most unusual politicians in the post-Soviet space. First of all, because he owes his political career... to the biography of a test pilot. In Lithuania, aviation sports are generally held in special esteem. Even on one of the banknotes you can see images of two heroic Lithuanian pilots who died during an attempted transatlantic flight...