The shelf of online magazines has arrived, and from now on, in addition to “Znamya” and “New World”, the “only thick poetry magazine”, which is also the “mirror of Russian poetry” - “Arion” , provides its full version on the network . We can only congratulate ourselves, the magazine, and everyone together. Usually "Arion" opens with a large monographic selection in the "Reading Room" section.

Kuritsyn-weekly from December 10 Vyacheslav Kuritsyn Publication date: December 10, 2001 Darkness There are a lot of scary things in St. Petersburg. For example, vodka acts differently. If in Moscow, after the second bottle, I gain extraordinary firmness in the contour, Mendeleev’s strength, then in St. Petersburg the villain with the sticker cuts me down. Take last night. I walked home at night staggering like an alcoholic from a cartoon.

Sergeant major in Voltaire? It is high time Semyon Dobrynin Publication date: December 10, 2001 “If you are so smart, then why are you so useless?” - this is the main idea of ​​V.V. Putin’s speech at a meeting with academicians (03.12.01). The question about intelligence and usefulness was not asked openly, but an open answer was given: “The key problem remains the transfer of the science management system to modern principles adequate to our time.

Previous publications: Vyacheslav Zagorsky , Network pyrotechnics or a new educational space? /22.01/ There are many pyrotechnic pages on the Internet. The range of interests of “young web chemists” is wide - next to the description of the synthesis of hexogen, you can find sections on lethal doses of strong toxins or recipes for getting a “high” from fly agarics. Completely professional recipes and advice can be used by real adult terrorists.

In Itor Pivovarov , whom I knew mainly as one of the most exquisite and favorite illustrators of the children's book, wrote memoirs. I did not read this small book, but swallowed. Pivovarov turned out to be a wonderful stylist. Its prose is transparent, minimalist. The phrases are short, exactly as much as it is necessary for expressing thoughts. No pose. Feelings are also expressed concisely, the words are chosen at first glance the simplest, even the poor - and all in the apple.

Third outcome. Heroes and victims Notes from the manager of the Agency for Employment Abroad Publication date: December 10, 2001 receive by email print version And careful Germans report that in the last 6 years alone, Germany has received more than 400 thousand CIS citizens. Here we are talking only about immigration, and not about various types of legal and illegal employment. Most of the emigrants had reason to be considered Germans, even if their grandparents were born in Kazakhstan.

Lately , many writers have been looking for the unclean. And if at the beginning of the year “Critical Realisms” spontaneously formed into a series of reflections on religious motives in current publications, then by the end of the year an increased interest in the forces of evil was revealed. First - Dmitry Volchek with a completely satanic book "93!" ...

On the pragmatic value of the Russian Constitution Alexander Bakhmanov Publication date: December 10, 2001 55% of those surveyed by the Public Opinion Foundation do not know the basic content of the Constitution (36% say they know). 47% believe that the Constitution is a purely formal document that has no relation to the life of Russian citizens (41% are confident of the opposite); for 38% of respondents the Constitution is bad (for 28% it is good, and 34% found it difficult to assess).

All-Russian counting rhymes Alexander Yakutsky Publication date: December 10, 2001 Almost every Russian already knows that a population census awaits us in October next year. Almost everyone has already formulated some opinion regarding the upcoming procedure. But here's what's interesting. The main page of the official website dedicated to this event is crowned with a quote from Leo Tolstoy : “ The purpose of the census is scientific. The census is a sociological study.

The release was prepared by Roman Ganja This is what the way you need to go in love - yourself or under someone else's leadership: starting with individual manifestations of the beautiful, it is necessary all the time, as if on the steps, climb the samog about the beautiful up - from one beautiful body to two, from two - to everyone, and then from beautiful bodies to beautiful morals, and from beautiful customs to beautiful teachings, Until you rise from these teachings to the one that and There

Free software in Russia: future and present Olga Goryunova Publication date: December 10, 2001 At the very end of November, the Working Meeting on Free Software took place in Russia for the first time: “Free Software: Business Models and Corporate Initiatives” [1] . The meeting was organized by the Higher School of Economics and the Computerra publishing house.

Meeting under the bridge Foreign policy of the past week Alexander Kazakov Publication date: December 10, 2001 The main foreign policy event of the past week was the meeting of OSCE foreign ministers in Bucharest, where Russia demonstrated its new post-September international face, the face of “not a boy, but a husband.” Although, with the exception of RJ, the Russian media actually ignored the Bucharest summit. Why?