See Moscow and die. From what he saw (Joke of Western investors) Oleg Belyakov Publication date: March 19, 2001 Why do you need this crying sorrow? What do you need these poor people? Eternal holiday quickly running Life doesn't let you wake up. N.A. Nekrasov, "Reflections at the front entrance" Not long ago, the Western press was amused by the Russian leadership’s plans to “promote” its own country abroad a little, which were voiced by Mikhail Lesin.

On Friday, the Interfax agency told a delightful story about a Moscow schoolboy who infected FIDO with some kind of monstrous virus. The authors of Netoscope to the Interfax message applied the method of critical analysis and came to the conclusion that from this message it is impossible to draw a single clear conclusion about what happened to FIDO, what kind of virus it was, or what the schoolboy did. I have no questions for Interfax - it is useless to ask questions.

Yesterday, today and again yesterday Paper Press Review Mikhail Fikhtengolts Publication date: March 19, 2001 Well, I think it has begun. The newspaper digest ceased to be limited to comments on everyday life and went to chronological extremes.

"Anyone can become a censor" Interview with Sergei Mikhailovich Alexandrov, editor of the biobibliographic dictionary "Russian Writers: 1800-1917" Galina Zykova Publication date: March 20, 2001 Galina Zykova: Sergei Mikhailovich, the position of the editor of Russian Writers is a unique “observation point”. Firstly, you have been working with a huge and diverse dictionary for many years, with dozens of philologists of different generations.

Links On Saturday in St. Petersburg, the writer and public figure Viktor Krivulin died. The most substantial of the currently available necrologists is here . On Thursday, in Moscow, he drove them. Rudomino took place of the Japanese-Russian Litcrugistol. For Russia, Grigory Chkhartishvili , Vladimir Sorokin , Tatyana Tolstaya and Boris Akunin represented. There was a full house.

From the compilers. The fact that gay people have problems due to their orientation hardly seems sensational. But there is a country where gay people have a problem with not being gay enough. Why? You can't compromise on principles. Although there are also problems with principles: did the French philosopher Alexandre Kojève spy for the USSR? What did the dialectical principles that he respected so much tell him?

Paratrooper ruthenicus Sergey Soloukh Publication date: March 19, 2001 In this equally endless country on all four sides, distances were once measured in dandelions. The little white parachute migrated two cubits per dragonfly flight per year. That's why the numbers were so huge on roadside posts. And the letters are small and all with tails. In fact, I just want to tell you how I forgot the city on seven hills. But there was a time I loved. Extremely.

Roshi Kaisen. Zazen. - K.: Nika-center, 2001. - 72 p.; circulation 2000 copies; ISBN 966-521-111-0. Today's review of macabre new products is dedicated to health. Either because of the rheumatic spring, or by chance. The first book is the thinnest, the most accessible to read in a single trip to work, a condensed introduction to zazen (sitting meditation).

Cinema on TV: March 19-25 Ekaterina Barabash Publication date: March 19, 2001 Once upon a time, in distant childhood, if something was canceled or didn’t work out, we said: “There won’t be a movie, the movie guy got drunk . ” We didn’t know what the name of the person who showed the movies was, and the word “film person” seemed quite appropriate. You probably already understand what this short excursion into history is for.

Cinema-30: Bodan Taurus with the Emperor "Angels of the Universe" (festival show) . The first and main film of the first festival "The Days of Icelandic Cinema in Moscow and St. Petersburg." Icelandic cinema is very small and extremely little known outside the limits of Iceland, however, some names are now a fan of European cinema is obliged to know. For example, Friedrick Thoridricksson, all five films of which will be shown in both capitals.