New experiments on the new generation Andrey Press Publication date: February 5, 2001 "University of a new generation." This is the name of the CD-ROM dedicated to the Russian State University for the Humanities and released under the leadership of its rector Yu.N. Afanasyev . On the cover are words about a new educational model. Let's try to figure out what is new about this model and how it is put into practice.

In Search of Lost Poetry: Issue 3 Georgy Svan Publication date: February 5, 2001 Books provided by the Moscow store "OGI" Victor Koval. Plot with Polyphemus : Poems. - St. Petersburg: Pushkin Foundation, 2000 Nikolay Boldyrev. Return of the East Wind : Three Books of Poems. - Chelyabinsk: Studio "Unicorn", 2000 Natalya Bratysheva. This is all for you : Collection of poems. - M.: Bio-medical technologies, 2000 Vladimir Shilensky. Songs for adults . - M.: 2000 Vladimir Skobtsov. Time kissed .

"English" is a rare species. Grab it or else he will run away Elena Golubeva Publication date: February 5, 2001 There is one category of workers in Moscow that seems to me worthy of being included in the Red Book on a par with the long-suffering Twix. These are English teachers. Why in Moscow and why specifically English teachers, and not French or, say, geography? But I insist on precisely this definition and am ready to justify my choice.

Prosper Merima once explained to Pushkin that he composed his "Songs of the Western Slavs", which Pushkin took for the genuine in order to laugh at the "local color", in which we blindly hit the summer from the birth of Christ 1827 . The yard is not summer, but the first winter of the XXI century. But the fashion for Koler Lokal, especially Balkansky, does not go through, but only expands and deepens.

The cycle of rebirths of Willie P.'s Diary acquires cosmic speed. Now the diary is published daily on Weekend.Ru . According to some reports , Microsoft intends to rename its next products in a clever way - not in accordance with existing conventions. Of course, everything is for the benefit of the client. Let everyone get confused.

All about Poetry 21 Miroslav Nemirov Publication date: February 5, 2001 " More Ben " There is such an essay that received the Debut Prize . “The Debut Prize, established by the Generation Foundation, is awarded to authors of literary works in Russian who have not reached the age of 25 at the time of the award, regardless of their place of residence.

"At the frequency with Polyphemus" is a good excuse to talk about the work of Koval as a whole. Say, the songs performed by A. Lipsky, and "my folk wisdom" in the book by the will of the author. But there is a poem " Polycarps " and poems of different years. The problem of absence/presence, as it becomes clear from the further, is very important for the author. Koval writes not only funny and absurdly - he writes scary. It began with songs .

Almost the main text of the first issue of Novy Mir in 2001 was Andrei Nemzer’s elegiac article “ Before me lies the last issue of Volga .” A classic Nemzer article in a classic thick magazine. (But it doesn’t fall on “Rutenia,” however. There is newspaper Nemzer, which is also a genre, but, it seems, not the main Nemzer genre...) That’s not the trick.