The shine and misery of Linux Oleg Basov Publication date: January 18, 2002 "Linux is not Windows(tm) or its ilk. It is a different operating system. It is not any more complicated, but you will have to look at a lot of things differently to get to know it. If you put in the effort, you will be rewarded." From the documentation for Linux Mandrake Spring 2000 Russian Edition.

The Origin of the Genus, or Great Genetic Improvisation Alexey Batashev. BATASH. The Great Eurasian Novel, or the Experience of Artistic-Historical Research of a Family for Fifty-Five Centuries. - M.: "Magisterium", 2001. - 448 pp., with illustrations. Alexey Mikheev Publication date: January 18, 2002 Sometime in the mid-70s, Alex Haley's " book " Roots appeared in the States , in which the author traced the history of his family over six generations.

Society of Victims Notes from the week Mikhail Remizov Publication date: January 18, 2002 "Every aristocratic morality is characterized by intolerance..." Friedrich Nietzsche The conflict between “individualists” and “communists” belongs to the century before last. And even then it looked flat, leaving behind the public debate the most integral thinkers such as Konstantin Leontiev, who said that “individualism destroys individuality.” Leontiev "differentialist".

Magazine Fiction: Issue 67 Inna Bulkina Publication date: January 21, 2002 "New Literary Review" #51 Last time (last year) we complained about the Zvezda magazine, which suddenly acquired a concept in well-known actions according to the principle: “It gave this, it didn’t give that,” that is, it introduced some consistency into its flawed online version (a bad pun turned out to be: complain about the network... but not on purpose).

Is it time to close theaters? The capital is rushing to redistribute theater property Grigory Zaslavsky Publication date: January 18, 2002 Within one week, three materials were published in Moscow newspapers, one way or another raising the same topic. It can be defined this way: isn’t it time to close some of the capital’s theaters? The general tone of the articles implies the answer: it's time.

Achieving social stability through rebonization of the population (to avoid the consequences of the spread of home Darwin centers) Publication date: January 18, 2002 Memo addressed to the head of the Adsorption Department at the Ministry of Absorption of the Russian Empire, His Excellency Prince V.I. Kogan-Bosphorus. Archive of tmp files of the Imperial Chancellery, Velikiy Utyug, 2102.

It could be a "brand war" The responsible official of the Russian Ministry of Culture believes that his department is not yet working to close theaters Publication date: January 18, 2002 A responsible official of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation , who asked not to give his name, agreed to answer some questions from the Russian Journal concerning the current policy of the Ministry of Culture in the field of theater construction and theater reconstruction.

Change of generations Maria Mayofis Publication date: January 21, 2002 answers , editor of the “History” department of the New Literary Review, Maria Mayofis Oleg Proskurin’s questions . Russian Magazine: It seems to me that fundamental changes are taking place in the structure of your department (starting from approximately the 50th issue). Is this really so or are these just my subjective feelings? Maria Mayofis: No, these are not just your subjective feelings.

Third outcome. Heroes and victims (part 3) Notes from the manager of the Agency for Employment Abroad Georgy Dalidovich Publication date: January 18, 2002 Continuation. See part 1 and part 2 . In Russia, no one should renounce the sum, prison and traveling abroad to earn money or for good. IN The first part of our story talked about simple, effective, but, strictly speaking, not entirely legal, although relatively ethical options for employment abroad.

Stupidity Pushkin Vyazemsky in one of his letters - it seems to - put forward the thesis that “poetry should be stupid.” Since then, for almost 200 years, there has been a debate: what did he mean? Khodasevich, for example, devoted an entire article to this issue: "What's the matter, however? Is it possible that poetry - "religion's earthly sister" - not only can, but should also be stupid?