In my reading circle, essays about the “ intelligentsia ” and its angelic/demonic [underline as appropriate] role in the history of Russia come up. “ Intellectuals ” is in quotation marks because everyone understands by this word something of their own, cherished. It is so cherished that it is impossible to agree on it not only with others, but also with oneself.

Bottle Kirill Yakimets Publication date: July 23, 2001 1. "Art is art is art" That joke by Brodsky seems to appeal more to bohemians than all other attempts to define art. Indeed, a phrase made up of just two words is associated with six different meanings: two senses of the word “is” (being and eating), three senses of the word “art” (art as a specific field of activity, as a skill and, finally, as a result) .

Kirill Romanovna Falk - in her translations to French published works by Pushkin, Lermontov, Baratynsky, Fet, Blok, Akhmatova, Marshak, Antokolsky, Franco, Kupala, Simonov, Samoilov, Surkov, Aseevko, Evtushenko, Akhmadulina, Sorokina ... About the life that led to French, about the sonnets of Louise Laba ... Elena Kalashnikova : How did you come to the translation? Kirill Falk: This is a long story, for this you need to tell almost the beginning of my life. I was born in September 1921.

The Riga Opera Festival has existed, and very successfully, for 4 years, impressive experts with the level of modern staged culture and non -trivial approach to opera classics. This summer, the reason, which initiated the most daring art projects, is more than significant: Riga solemnly celebrates his 800th anniversary these days. The key (and most expensive) production of the season was the "Magic Flute".

Wilder Thornton. Kabbalah: Roman / Translation from English and notes by Sergey Ilyin. SPb.: "Symposium", 2001. - 237 p. The circulation is 6 thousand. ISBN 5-89091-158-9 Rob-Griye Alain. Collected works. Swinging : novels / translation from French. The compilation and preface of Olga Akimova. - St. Petersburg: "Symposium", 2001. - 554 p. The circulation is 5 thousand. ISBN 5-89091-157-0 Kalvino Italo. Collected works.

Do Russian “greens” have any prospects? How "Cedar" was grown and cut Mikhail Tulsky Publication date: July 23, 2001 Environmental parties in European countries began to play a real political role in the 1980s, but even now they hardly act as one of the leading political forces anywhere.

Type of gopniks, subtype of anti-globalists Ivan Davydov Publication date: July 23, 2001 General preamble The weather is conducive to shouting anti-globalist slogans. Because what we now lack are water cannons on the streets at municipal expense. I would go to the demonstration myself if only I was sure that this demonstration would eventually be dispersed.

Where's the money? Issue five Cashing as an institutional trap Oleg Basov Publication date: July 23, 2001 From TV debate: No boxes I didn’t pull it out, Grigory Alekseevich. And about the black cash register - you, Grigory Alekseevich, you are leading the elections. You have no income there does not exist from any oligarchs? The previous edition of the column described how the discussion about the tax on excess profits of commodity exporters began.

All spectrums of green Pavel Chernomorsky Publication date: July 23, 2001 The green field of the West - both marginal and quite respectable - largely copies the field of traditional politics. It also has its reformists and revolutionaries, outsiders, lobbyists, full-time clowns, ideologists, specialists in political technology, conformists, ideological romantics, careerists and businessmen.

The main literary event of this month for me was undoubtedly the release of the new novel “Caesarean Sample” (Izographus-Exmo-Press, Moscow) of my longtime older friend, writer and part-time Professor-Slavist of the American University named after J. Meyson, an idol of several generations of Russian readers Vasily Aksenov.