No congratulations Editor's Column Date of publication: September 19, 2001 We continue the topic that circumstances imposed on us. After all, it's not every day that a new era begins. I would like to put aside, if possible, the questions “Who is to blame?” and "What should I do?" - not into the shadows, but into the background, subordinating them to the main question: “What happened?” Perhaps the 21st century has begun (in the cultural sense).

Ned Hell, based on the “Golden Calf” in the St. Petersburg Drama and Comedy on Litein, director Grigory Kozlov worked as his crown collective-story method brought to a logical end, and if this previously caused great enthusiasm among most critics, now he made him perplexed. We look at the production based on the principle of "nesting doll": one story, and it has another, and in it another ... We were shown an energetic digest of the story about Ostap Bender of two novels.

Proceeding the snobbery of the metropolitan thinking creatures, I believe that the combination of words in the title can cause shaking shoulders. However, I will not refuse the name, there is no reason for this. Last year, in the form of a special application, RSA published the results of expeditions along the backs of the Volga Federal District . This year the expeditions repeated.

Xenophobia #7. I choose freedom Notes on the Theology of Globalism Mikhail Remizov Date of publication: September 20, 2001 At some point, it began to seem that there was some truth in Bush’s words about the blow to freedom . The degree of hysterical censorship of thought, perhaps, has not jumped so high for a long time. The density of rhetorical clichés per square centimeter of the brain has not given rise to such dense suffocation for a long time.

"Amelie" / " The unusual fate of Amelie Poulen" France-FRG. 2001. 120 minutes. Assessment - 7.5 (out of 10) The French director Jean-Pierre wife used to put gloomy films, at best, painted with black humor. This applies to his joint work with Mark Karo ("delicacies" and "city of lost children"), and even more so the American tape "Return of the Alien", the fourth series about the indestructible cosmic monster.

Business The works of Boris Akunin were not novels, but knitwear. At the request of the “ozone”, Erast’s father personally drew the sketches of two T -shirts for the series “Erast Fandorin Rules” and wrote the texts of these very rules. T -shirts are of high quality, the sketch is absolutely not like anything, the sale of them will begin at the Ozone tonight. See the announcement in the right column on the face! Thread I go to you on a thread. She is only laid between me.

Apocalypse: yesterday, today, tomorrow Victor Sonkin Date of publication: September 20, 2001 “It’s war,” some shout; the collapse of civilization, say others; the end of the world, - still others gloat; “We warned you,” conspiracy theorists rejoice. There are no answers and none are expected in the near future; Are there any - not answers, but at least clues - in the past? This is difficult. Apocalyptic works are divided into two categories: predictive and chronicler.

The scourge of intelligence services around the world: “Azefism” Igor Jadan Date of publication: September 20, 2001 After the monstrous events in New York, the world froze in bewilderment: how the organization of terrorists, throughout the rather long process of preparation, managed to avoid the fate of being tracked, discovered and destroyed. This riddle excites the minds of analysts and correspondents no less than the imagination of the average person.

Blast force Alexander Sekatsky Date of publication: September 21, 2001 And from manuals on civil defense, we remember that a blast wave propagates at different speeds in different environments, and moreover, the weapon used can have a whole set of damaging factors. Terrorists on hijacked planes managed to ram almost all layers of existence and what is happening: from everyday life and current politics to the historical and metaphysical dimension of human existence in the world.

New classifier of artiodactyls Vladimir Malakhov. The modest charm of racism and other articles. M.: Modest Kolerov and the House of Intellectual Books, 2001. 175 p. Alexander Fridrikhovich Filippov Date of publication: September 20, 2001 The fourth book in the “Notebooks on Philosophical Essays” series has been published, and in our opinion, the most successful.