The editors have obtained scattered pages of a diary that was blown away during a fire in an abandoned office building on the eastern coast of the United States. We impudently publish them, rearranging them at random. Foreign words, such as ramp, pump, customer support, etc., are deliberately left without translation. 1 I'm tired of computers, oh, how tired of these machines! I’m writing a real diary on real pink paper, but I don’t know if I’ll finish it.

Ozone mouthpiece of the era Report from the lair with tears in my eyes Denis Bychikhin Publication date: June 4, 2001 There is such a word - egghead. This means the head is like an egg. There is also the word asshole. This means that it's crazy. As if not quite normal. And also... Oh well. And then there are these poems: In Cleveland, on a kayak, I lifted my knees.

Provinces: Buying Loyalty Alexander Khramchikhin Publication date: June 4, 2001 In the Republic of Adygea, the share of the Slavic population is more than 70%, and the Adyghe population is 22%. At the same time, seats in the Khase (parliament) of the republic are legally divided in half between Russians and Circassians.

Magazine reading: issue forty-two "New Russian book" #6 Inna Bulkina Publication date: June 4, 2001 It’s rare to write about NRK, but here’s an amazing consistency: every time the webmaster dictates the stories. At first there were no sections - none at all (in the online version on the Kuritsyn site, that is. In the real "NRK" they were, of course), then something like that appeared, but the authors got mixed up, the articles clung to one another and how It all looked sloppy.

The district judge who had the good fortune to hear the case against two Russian hackers with archetypal surnames who broke into a bunch of networks in the United States ruled that the FBI had the right to break into Russian computers in the process of catching the hackers. That is, to do exactly what the defendants will soon go to jail for. A new clone of LoveLetter is crawling around the Internet, disguised as a promise to show the user a naked Jennifer Lopez .

Russian open spaces as a natural resource Kilometers instead of barrels Sergey Ilyin Publication date: June 4, 2001 - Stirlitz is walking along the corridor. - Which corridor?! - According to us. It has become commonplace to indicate that Russia is a “raw materials” country. The disadvantages of such specialization are obvious: a lag in more high-tech industries, strict dependence on price conditions, limited reserves.

Why is Russia worse than Thailand? Publication date: June 4, 2001 Does Russia need foreign investment? Will we turn into some kind of Thailand if we base our economy on foreign capital? On the other hand, what's bad about Thailand? Finally, if investments are flowing into the Thai economy, but not so much into ours, does this mean that the “investment climate” in Thailand is better than in Russia?

Boots and bast shoes Where does the income from Russian land come from and where did it go? Kirill Yakimets Publication date: June 4, 2001 Describing the unsuccessful attempt of Prince Vladimir to capture the Bulgars, who controlled part of the Volga trade routes, the chronicler notes: “You cannot get tribute from those who wear boots, but you have to look for bast workers.” In Vladimir's time, however, "boots" were more relevant.

I saw Vladimir Sergeyevich Muravyov only three times: the first time - I interviewed, the second - I brought the text for reconciliation, the third (June 8) - took the already printed interview and his photo. But three times was enough to understand: it is very thin, vulnerable, attentive, demanding of himself and others. June 10 he was gone.

Governor and provincial squabbles Efim Dikiy Publication date: June 4, 2001 1. Third term: everyone dances! If the Duma usually differs in demonstrating miracles and materializing spirits, this time the upper house of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation took an active part in the action. The reason for the carols was once again the question of the right of governors to run for a third term.