Dear Oleg Pavlovich! In your acting life (exceptionally rich, fruitful and - thank God - far from complete) you had to change your role several times. When did you feel most at ease? Chopping up bourgeois furniture with a saber? Stretching from sleep in a black SS uniform? Stretching out of sleep towards the careless faithful Zakhar? Or maybe stretching out of sleep with Matroskin? (For my part, thank you so much for everything and happy belated birthday.

Yesterday we met by chance Johan Kobborg and Vladimir Malakhov on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater Natalia Zvenigorodskaya Date of publication: September 25, 2001 Neither rare talent, nor unique natural data, nor the Grand Prix of one of the most prestigious competitions in Varna forced the Bolshoi Theater in 1986 to accept into its ranks an eighteen-year-old graduate of the Moscow Choreographic School, Vladimir Malakhov . lacked The native of Krivoy Rog a mere trifle - Moscow registration.

The investigation is led by Professor Moriarty Sergey Kredov Date of publication: September 25, 2001 In America, premieres of films that may evoke painful associations with the events of September 11 have been cancelled. In our country, the premiere of the book “The FSB Blows Up Russia” was not cancelled, despite the fact that it coincided with the second anniversary of the terrorist attacks in Moscow.

A straw in your own eye vs a log in someone else's eye Passenger notes Stanislav Koryakin Date of publication: September 25, 2001 The saying that after the tragedy of September 11 “America, the world, us, the world order (underline as appropriate) will not be the same” has already become something of a mantra. They are pronounced by ordinary people, politicians, our compatriots, and Americans. And, in fact, it is unclear whose understanding of this fact is more important.

Hunger 54 Practical gastroenterology reading Alexander Ageev Date of publication: September 25, 2001 During the days of the global crisis, I had the most annoying reading that I can only imagine and which I had been putting off for almost a month - Roman Senchin’s story “Minus” in the August “Znamena”. Minus on "Minus" did not create any plus, but caused some kind of moral and literary poisoning, which is easiest to get out of by writing this very text that you are reading.

Experts are conducting the investigation Egor Kholmogorov, Olga Mitrenina Date of publication: September 25, 2001 During the interrogation, eleven-year-old Vanya Savelyev forced the investigator to talk about Vladyka not “Valentin”, but “Metropolitan Valentin”. “What is he, your neighbor?

Fear in the Brain Ring Mikhail Kordonsky Date of publication: September 25, 2001 - Can we play Brain Ring here? - Yes, sure! - Aren’t you afraid? This is happening in Odessa, in a children's club in the region, I am a full-time teacher. - What? - Don’t you know? Brain ring is banned! - ? ? ? - We always had a school championship. We were getting ready. The director gathered everyone and said that now it’s impossible. Otherwise they will sue her and give her a large fine. It's 2001.

Vedenyapin Dmitry Yuryevich (river 1959) - poet, translator from English. He translates prose from English, verses from French and German. The main translation works: Poems by Karl Rabolov, Polzhan's Fields, Andre Chen, Thomas Hardy, Michael Cunningham’s novels “House on the edge of the world” and “Clock”, a collection of stories by I.-Bashevis Zinger “Passion”. Russian magazine: why do you think there are unsuccessful translations? Is the translator not for "his" work? Dmitry Vedenyapin.

Barbarians in Kyiv Dmitry Desyateryk Date of publication: September 25, 2001 The tenth anniversary of Ukraine's independence is far behind us. A makeshift mausoleum was removed from Khreshchatyk , from which four leaders ( Putin and Kuchma - side by side, Trajkovski and Kwasniewski - at a distance) hosted a military parade, unprecedented in modern times. The sound whirlpool that spread from stage to stage throughout the capital died down.

Century=text, issue 67: 1967 Egor Otroshchenko Date of publication: September 25, 2001 Poem of the Year On the way to Skyros I'm leaving the city like Theseus - your Labyrinth, leaving the Minotaur stink, and Ariadne coo in the arms of Bacchus. Here it is, victory! The apotheosis of asceticism! God just then he arranges a meeting, when we, in the center, having completed our work, We’re already wandering through the wasteland with the loot, leaving these places forever, never to return again.

The United State Francis Fukuyama Financial Times The grandfather of the famous professor, living classic, Francis Fukuyama, at one time suffered due to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Two weeks after the destruction of the American military airfield in Hawaii, President Roosevelt signed an order for the forced transfer of persons of Japanese nationality to special camps.

The community of Russian writers has been replenished with a new novelist In Ladimir, Zhirinovsky released to the public (as they wrote in the eighteenth century) his first novel, “Ivan, smell your soul!” Versions, scenarios of one’s own vision, developments - from historical and political science to everyday ones - plunge even fans of Huxley and Orwell into infernal despondency . The pictures drawn by the author of the book are apocalyptic in nature.

Intelligence agencies are not power. Intelligence agencies are a tool Anatoly Kurchatkin Date of publication: September 25, 2001 Georgy Ivanovich Mordvinov - this is the full and true name of the man who, under the name of the Cossack Fedorov, during the civil war, managed to get through the territory occupied by the Whites to the headquarters of the Japanese command and hand over a letter signed by the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V.I.

Once in the circles of musicians there was a bad bike about a concert of a pianist. The rumor says that after a very long program and three bees, an entertainer comes out and declares a tired public: “Ludwig Van Beethoven. 32 sonatas for piano. Filled without a break,” - after which the audience faints. In the case of the performance of Boris Berezovsky , where five Beethoven’s concerts were declared, I personally had some fears for the fate of the audience.