Evgenia Katseva: “The German language is my personal war trophy” Elena Kalashnikova Publication date: May 29, 2001 Evgenia Aleksandrovna Katseva is a translator from German, a member of the public council of the editorial board of the Znamya magazine, the first recipient (together with Solomon Apt) of the “Cross of Honor for merits in the field of science and art, 1st class” (Austria). Among her translations are Andersch, Belle, Brecht, Becher, Grasse, de Bruyn, Kafka, Musil, Frisch ...

Ten films of the week: May 28 - June 3 To the release of Stephen Somers "Mummy Returns" to the screens of the film To Ing -Kong, it turns out, is alive, the Terminator is Judged day - yet ahead, but the mummy is returning, in all its splendor. The dilogy (still dilogy) of the young and undoubtedly gifted Steven Somers, "mummy" and "mummy returns" - a visual demonstration of the two main diseases of Hollywood cinema: Romeks and sequels.

A forty-year-old Canadian resident with a difficult fate successfully escaped Microsoft's claims : this lady sold several pirated copies of the corporation's software packages, but refused to admit her guilt, citing the impossibility of determining the authenticity of the product before opening the box. The court acquitted her, but her business (which consisted of selling pirated software) naturally closed.

To prevent people from stealing, should you knock? Publication date: May 29, 2001 From the editor: Denisov, Militarev and Ryvkin proposed a number of measures that are desirable, but very difficult to implement.

Death and suicide as fundamental concepts of Russian rock culture Hieromonk Gregory (V.M. Lurie) Publication date: May 29, 2001 And at that time someone went out to smoke on the balcony And he feels: the wind is blowing from all sides at once 1 The focus of Russian rock at the turn of the 80s and 90s, and even later, on the theme of death is a fact that has long been noticed 2 .

Hunger 34 Practical gastroenterology reading Alexander Ageev Publication date: May 29, 2001 When I worked at Znamya, people who wanted to please me said: “I always start reading your magazine from the end.” At the end of the magazine, apparently, was the “Observer” - a bibliographic review that I invented and maintained for the last six years. But generally speaking, this phrase (like this habit of leafing through a magazine from the end) is one of the “general” ones.

Kuritsyn-weekly from May 29, 2001 Vyacheslav Kuritsyn Publication date: May 30, 2001 Today ’s issue is extraordinary: mainly about the fact that on Friday in St. Petersburg at the Astoria Hotel the first ceremony of awarding the “National Bestseller” took place .

The normal evolution of the judicial-legal system: from customary law (“according to the behests of our ancestors”) - to fixed law, that is, written on tablets, parchment or papyrus, which culture is more suitable for what, and uniform throughout the entire territory of the state. If you are a subject of King Hammurabi, be kind enough to be guided by the Laws of King Hammurabi, and not by the general ideas about justice that have developed in your tribal community.

Magazine reading: issue forty-one "New World" #5, 2001; "Banner" #5, 2001 Inna Bulkina Publication date: May 29, 2001 In the May "NM" there is Galina Shcherbakova, a classic of her kind: a novel about "A Boy and a Girl" , love and death (or rather, attempts at death - everything is make-believe: as if frightening and as if not scary.

Responsibility as a punishment for freedom E.I. Nikolaeva, I.M. Romanenko Publication date: May 29, 2001 There are different ways to look into the future. The scientific method is effective where there is a consistent forward movement. It is enough to collect data over many years, build a graph, evaluate trends and make a forecast. However, at a turning point in social development, such a method may fail.

Tyana Tolstaya wrote an essay performed by righteous anger. The writer does not like the gaping voids of contemporary art. And she blames with Casimir Malevich, more precisely, his “black square”, which brought the line under classical art and opened the gate of the unquenchable evil of relevant movements. The Black Square announces the end of art, its impossibility, his unnecessaryness, it is the furnace in which the art burns, then the pole in which it fails.

All about Poetry 43 Miroslav Nemirov Publication date: May 29, 2001 Ugliness And his cult, thriving in the avant-garde. It follows, as shown above, from the requirement of “Immeasurability” . Also see in "A.S. Ter-Oganyan: Life, Fate and Contemporary Art" . Madness Also another one of the mandatory qualities that was required of a poet in the 20th century.

Ukrainian Internet Victor Zakharchenko Publication date: May 29, 2001 Fate has decreed that everything that happens in Ukraine is always viewed through the prism of its eastern neighbor. Such an aspect of the life of a sovereign Ukrainian state as the Internet is no exception. I do not agree with those who claim that UaNet (let me use this abbreviation) is a crooked mirror image of Runet, but it is stupid to downplay the role of the latter in the development of the Ukrainian network.

A miracle has happened Main events of the Theater Olympics Maryna Timasheva Publication date: May 29, 2001 is taking place in Moscow The World Theater Olympics , the scale and scope of which defies description. If I set out to even briefly list all the most interesting of the planned events, I would end up with an author’s note. Not less. That's why I won't even try. I will only report that by the time of the Olympic start, two brand new buildings appeared in the capital.