Winners: Stoyan Andov Vitaly Portnikov Publication date: December 4, 2000 65-year-old Stoyan Andov, the first chairman of the parliament of independent Macedonia , returned to this post after a four-year break. He returned, although there were no parliamentary elections: the election of Andov as chairman of the Assembly of Macedonia drew a line under the existence of one government coalition and the creation of another.

Liberation of power Mikhail Remizov Publication date: December 4, 2000 Being called free is being that can realize its projects. Jean-Paul Sartre "Not an ideology, but a dictionary" I have never been able to take seriously the feigned seriousness of this question: "Who is Mister Putin?" With invariably conspiratorial overtones, it sounded in different ways from everywhere - from the air of Kiselyov’s “Itogi” , from the pages of left-wing patriotic newspapers.

Fish mistakes M.Yu. Lermontov. Ashik-Kerib Victor Sonkin Publication date: December 4, 2000 Lermontov's work "Mistakes of Fish" was named in the introductory essay written by an unnamed applicant to Leningrad State University; It’s not hard to imagine the unfortunate man calling out to his neighbor: “What other prose works does Lermontov have besides “A Hero of Our Time”?” - and then, with some surprise, writing down this Oberiut name. "Ashik-Kerib" is indeed a rather strange work.

The Russian National Orchestra , founded in 1990 by Mikhail Pletnev, gave a solemn anniversary concert in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. The first Russian orchestra, created regardless of state structures and budget financing, managed not only to survive in his homeland, but also to gain a solid reputation abroad.

Dejection Kirill Kutalov-Postoll Publication date: December 4, 2000 The mood couldn't be any darker. It seems that nothing new is happening at all, that everything has already come true a long time ago and now all it does is go in circles. On the other hand, sometimes it seems that you are going in circles yourself. This does not improve my mood. The reception itself is very depressing, for example. Especially when it is the same, and for a long time.

"In reality" and "actually" Simon Kordonsky Publication date: December 4, 2000 The new president of Russia, having come to power, found himself, in his own words, in a situation where “no matter what, Chechnya is everywhere,” that is, the number of seemingly insoluble problems is so great that it is even pointless to name them all. Nevertheless, reform began. The authorities began to act as if the country was just waiting to be changed.

Interpol, issue thirty-one.

Preliminary obituary Renata Litvina's film won the Laurel Branch prize Lyubov Paykova Publication date: December 4, 2000 The Non-Fiction Film and Television Guild presented its first prizes on Saturday. The “laurel branch” in the category “Best Documentary Film” went to the film “No Death for Me” by Renata Litvinova . Litvinova made her first documentary about five wonderful female actors: Lydia Smirnova , Tatyana Okunevskaya , Vera Vasilyeva , Tatyana Samoilova and Nonna Mordyukova .

The series “Russia in Memoirs” previously featured mainly large memoir forms. This collection is a “cut-up”, excerpts from various kinds of memoirs. Albeit a few lines, but dedicated to one of the most monstrous figures in Russian history - the creator of military settlements, Count Arakcheev.

Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship Sergei Glazyev, during parliamentary hearings on bills regulating e-commerce , told deputies how terrible life would be if the Internet was not regulated by law. In which, of course, he was enthusiastically supported by citizens from the Ministry of Communications , the Federal Securities Commission , the Central Bank and the Ministry of Justice .

Black Mark #2 About time and Yatsutko, whose body is on all sides Lev Pirogov Publication date: December 4, 2000 Hello, dear friends. I'm glad that the first issue of Roman Leibov's new landmark project "Black Mark" achieved its dirty goal. The prominent culturologist Kirill Kobrin , who became the first object of our biased attacks, became upset, picked a pimple on his forehead and died.

For emission Instead of the Saturday column "Different Books" Vladimir Kukushkin published on "Polit.ru" a report from the Non-Fiction fair. I will not analyze this report. And I won’t even put a link to it. Little by little. The broken month, as a damned, tried to heal Kukushkin from old ignorance and chronic nonsense, alternating a gentle therapy with shocking. Alas, medicine was powerless.

In Paris, these days from the auction, personal belongings of the Great Opera Primeonna Maria Callas are sold. Already found those who wanted to vilify the chinchilla fur coat and artistic wigs of the singer. It would seem that there is nothing special about this: Callas was a superstar, 30 years ago, who had borrowed the minds of the townsfolk by the very fact of their existence.