How to read books about how to read books Judith Shulevitz Publication date: February 21, 2002 Being conscientious people, writers usually feel obliged to play down their own merits a little before offering the public instructions on how to read books, recognizing this idea as daring. Such modesty can be feigned. In such a situation, the writer is not required to be modest; he should only flatter the reader’s vanity by emphasizing his insignificance.

Can a house divided stand? On the history of the church schism in Ukraine Dmitry Pirogov Publication date: February 21, 2002 The split in the religious life of Ukraine, which, according to most observers, is in many ways overtly political in nature, is today moving into a new stage.

Review by S.K. #93 Sergey Kostyrko Publication date: February 21, 2002 And we were deprived of one more illusion, one more myth by the new times (perestroika, post-perestroika, capitalist or whatever they call the time when society, with difficulty, but, it seems, put in place the joints that had once been dislocated by history) - we were deprived of the myth of foreign countries .

Panopticon: characters from virtual battles. Episode 2 Nikolay Popov Publication date: February 21, 2002 Admin This is destiny. Some kind of virus that attacks the main neural connections of the brain. Characters come to the state of administration in different ways, and the owners of this illness themselves, in general, are initially very diverse.

Alternative service: one pro and two cons Mikhail Mokretsov Publication date: February 21, 2002 Alternative service has an excellent promoter - the Constitution of the Russian Federation: Article 59: "1. Defense of the Fatherland is the duty and responsibility of a citizen of the Russian Federation. 2. A citizen of the Russian Federation performs military service in accordance with federal law. 3.

Old samurai of new Japanese cinema Ekaterina Barabash Publication date: February 21, 2002 was The Japanese Film Festival held in Russia for no less than the thirty-fifth time. However, they brought only four films, which, of course, is not enough, given the interest of the Russian audience in Eastern cinema in general, and Japanese in particular. And the hall of the Central House of Writers turned out to be too small - too many battles took place near the entrance.

"Young Russia" in the new concert season Farida Fahmi Publication date: February 21, 2002 This season, Young Russia has already given four concerts. And all of them became events in the musical life of Moscow... The orchestra opened its subscription with the First Symphony of S. Rachmaninov (October 18). The youthful composition, replete with long passages and far from perfect in form, failed at the premiere (1897) due to extremely unsuccessful performance (conducted by A.K.

Seine, etc. Issue 28 Review of current online events and publications Tatyana Danilova Publication date: February 21, 2002 The dream of any official is to bring reality into line with the circulars. in the quarrel over copyright laws But in the battles for the ideal, corporations have overdone it a little: the US Supreme Court will intervene . Copyright duration laws have changed several times over the past century.

Wet place The New Opera staged Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden Sofia Dymova Publication date: February 21, 2002 The New Opera has released its new production - Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden , staged by director Valery Raku and conductor Evgeny Samoilov. I was able to attend one of the premiere shows. The press itself was not invited to the premiere on February 17.

Longest war of the century Murray Sale Murray Sale Publication date: August 27, 2004 Qiang Zhai. China and the Vietnam Wars 1950-75. - University of North Carolina Press, 2000. George W. Allen. None so Blind: A Personal Account of the Intelligence Failure in Vietnam. - Ivan R Dee, Inc., 2001. Larry Berman. No Peace, No Honour: Nixon, Kissinger and Betrayal in Vietnam. - Free Press, 2002. What actually happened in Vietnam?

Red calendar day Tatiana Bazzhina Publication date: February 21, 2002 From today February 21st. And today is a big holiday. International. I know that the national holiday will be in a day. The Minister of Labor, the new labor code and the State Duma took care of this. I know that an international holiday will be in two weeks. February 21 has not yet become a red date on the calendar in our country. But in vain. After all, today is International Mother Language Day.

I gave a lecture with this title to my students when I taught social studies at Khimlyceum. To be honest, this lecture had nothing to do with social science. I just felt sorry for the guys: now they are all so nervous, sensitive, smart, and they will return from the army as self-confident fools (unless, of course, they end up in a “hot spot” - but then there was just a shift change between the two Chechen wars).

Modern architecture as a reason to resolve the issue of power Elena Gavrilova Publication date: February 21, 2002 “An architectural experiment will not happen in St. Petersburg,” said the city’s governor, Vladimir Yakovlev, in early February . The commission for celebrating the 300th anniversary, according to him, the Mariinsky Theater is not going to deal with yet: “The commission will not deal with technical issues,” Yakovlev said .