Reply to V. Glazychev Vladimir Kagansky Publication date: February 6, 2002 I made a commitment to respond to reviews before they appeared - otherwise I would have left Glazychev’s review unanswered. The text is spiteful, pitiful, meaningless - there is nothing to answer . What happened to the charming, generous master who once published me, and more than once published with me under the same cover ...

Notes on the environmental crisis Vladimir Kagansky. Cultural landscape and Soviet inhabited space. UFO, 2001, ISBN 5-86793-142-0. 575 pp. Boris Zhukov Publication date: February 6, 2002 Dear Vladimir Leopoldovich! Sorry that the subject of my comments (necessarily scattered and incoherent) was a small and probably not the main section of your book - namely, notes on the environmental crisis as a phenomenon and cultural myth.

"Old Men" Go to Battle Berlin International Film Festival opens on February 6 Elena Stishova Publication date: February 4, 2002 Whether it’s a coincidence or a smart strategic move by the newly appointed director of the Berlinale, Dieter Kosslick, the competition program of the 52nd Berlin IFF will feature mainly films from a galaxy of modern film classics.

Hunger 67 Practical gastroenterology reading Alexander Ageev Publication date: February 4, 2002 In the 90s, writers - prose writers, poets and critics - flocked to work in the popular press, mainly in daily newspapers and weeklies. It turned out that in the era of freedom of speech, only there a person with a pen can earn his bread and butter without retraining as a house manager or small merchant.

Magazine Fiction: Issue 69 "New World" #12-2001, #1-2002 Inna Bulkina Publication date: February 4, 2002 In the first in 2002 and the last in 2001 issues of "NM" there is a continuation and ending of "Island of Jonah" - the "meta-novel" by Anatoly Kim and Novikov's biography of Vysotsky , which were written about before . “Vysotsky” by Vladimir Novikov provoked some speeches , throwing idols from the ship of modernity, stormy forums , returns of idols, etc.

Cinema on TV February 4-10 Ekaterina Barabash Publication date: February 4, 2002 Sometimes you just wonder - when did our film and television producers manage to produce series in such quantities as to launch two or three premieres every week?

The cult of leakage as a method of preventing terrorism To the recent terrorist attack in Dagestan Mikhail Kochegarov Publication date: February 4, 2002 The twenties of January were marked by another terrorist attack in Dagestan, which claimed the lives of several Russian citizens - a car with soldiers was blown up by a planted explosive device.

Shoot in a global way Sergey Kudryavtsev Publication date: February 4, 2002 At a press conference dedicated to the VI archival film festival "White Pillars", Vladimir Dmitriev, as if anticipating the discussion "Film in Russian", expressed his opinion that in the near future he expects a rapid rise in Russian cinema.

The drama was born on the square in front of the police department Nikolay Pesochinsky Publication date: February 4, 2002 It’s hard to imagine such different expectations than those with which the audience comes to watch the new play directed by Yuri Butusov , this time an entrepreneurial one - “The Death of Tarelkin” .

Seine, etc. Issue 23 Review of current online events and publications Tatyana Danilova Publication date: February 4, 2002 They say that a fish swam out in England and said two words in such a strange language that scientists have been trying to determine for three years and still have not discovered anything. N.V.

"The translation must first of all be done correctly" Interviewed by Elena Kalashnikova Olga Koltsova Publication date: February 4, 2002 - Olga Petrovna Koltsova translator from German (Wilhelm Busch, Klaus Kesler, Wolf Eichelburg, Alfred Margul-Sperber), from English (Rudyard Kipling, John Keats, Robert Fergusson, Oscar Wilde, English-language poets of India), from Maltese (Oliver Frigiri, Mario Azzopardi). RJ: How did you come to the translation?

"Market people" and "anti-market people" Leszek Balcerowicz Publication date: February 4, 2002 And from theory and experience we know that all systems where there is no free market (and private property inextricably linked with it) have suffered a crushing defeat in economic competition with market systems. We also know that without economic freedom in the state, democracy can neither be built nor preserved.

War of Myths Sergey Demidov Publication date: February 4, 2002 Constant talk about the national idea is a sign of a mythological vacuum in our society, or the consequences of an uneradicated habit of high mythological density. Those who initiate all this talk about a new idea (while every now and then offering some kind of retro for its role) act as people of myth . Meanwhile, the man of myth cannot yet be defined as a reasonable man.