about “glass.” Only the lazy did not speak out Now that’s it: here I am, writing. I like these theses. Here, for example: after the “glass” there was more freedom . Oh? This terrarium itself became possible only because there was nowhere to put freedom . And those for whom it is not a tool of life, but a commodity, marauders of the invisible PR front, began to painfully think about where to place it, to whom to “sell it.” I think we didn’t think long: there are a lot of suckers.

The 20th century was marked by the collapse of the colonial empires of the West. The colonial era ended suddenly: between 1950 and 1965. The British, French, and Dutch empires actually ceased to exist. The Spanish colonies gained independence back in the 19th century, but the Russian Empire in its Soviet incarnation lasted a little longer - until 1991 (and to a certain extent still exists today - in the form of Siberia, the Volga region and the North Caucasus).

Alery Gergiev with Prokofiev’s opera “Semyon Kotko” on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater as part of the exchange tour of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky theaters made us remember the opera losses of Moscow over the last 10-15 years. A series of great Prokofiev operas became the Mariinsky Theater's trump card in the Western opera space. Listeners all over the world became acquainted with them, and the discoverer Gergiev was even compared to Diaghilev .

It has no twenty or more years ago that the retrospectives of contemporary art from work created by ten, twenty or more years ago are no longer too interesting. Almost everything is visible. Previously, the popular exhibition slogan "towards the object" reinss to the "object to the side". Museum accumulation and setting things are inferior to attempts to reconstruct, so to speak, the living process of previous days.

Learn to swim! About modern university education Andrey Borzenko Publication date: November 20, 2001 1. are more schools There than universities . And more attention to them. All sorts of new methods and concepts arise, of course, in the field of higher education, but not in such quantities as in schools. This is understandable. At a university, a change in content seems sufficient: this is especially noticeable in the humanities.

Will the police understand national politics? Round table #13 Swearing on the merits Publication date: November 20, 2001 National problems in the Russian Federation became so acute that they had to turn to the police for help. And, by the way, it is possible that “the police will sort it out”: the knot of our interethnic, interregional, interfaith and other “post-imperial” problems is so tangled that it is high time to cut it down.

Ghost Buster Daniel Henninger The Wall Street Journal Americans have long been accustomed to panicking for any reason. Chemicals, food additives, nuclear power plants, fluoridated water, high voltage wires, carcinogens, silicone implants, pesticides, the ozone layer, microwaves, vaccinations and genetically modified foods - this is not a complete list of American phobias of recent decades.

And Lexander Grimailo has been in the circus for thirty years. He began his career with the work of the clown, and continues as an avant-garde director. His circus is unusual for the viewer, and therefore he is suspicious. His clowns are not silly people with overhead noses, but respectable, young and energetic dandies; The artists on the trampoline do not just jump, but play basketball; The Akrobatka girl performs rubber not on a stable platform, but on a large, mobile ball.

Review by S.K. #3 (82) Sergey Kostyrko Publication date: November 20, 2001 to For example, this has already happened me: the publication of Witold Gombrowicz's "Diaries" ("New World", 1996, #11 , 1998, #2 ) revealed a wonderful writer - intelligence, temperament, stylistic sophistication, aesthetic and intellectual independence, charm. An additional pleasure in reading the Diary was the anticipation of reading Gombrowicz's prose itself. Alas, his prose just didn’t work at all.