"Iris " UK-USA. 2001. 90 minutes. Rating: 5.5 (out of 10). The story of the life and death of the outstanding English writer Iris Murdoch - at the beginning of her writing career and at the end of her days, when Murdoch not only could not write, but also practically lost touch with the real world, suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

Obey - and you can reason as much as you like. Immanuel Kant The compulsion to be citizens has always been defined, directly or indirectly, as freedom, even as the very possibility of freedom . This can be expressed in a simple principle: free existence is available only in the perspective of fulfilling civic duties, that is, in the perspective of being a citizen.

Jackson, Michael 1. Another hated symbol of America in general and its cultural expansion in particular. It was rainy in the summer of 1995 with a man named Yuri Renev, drank and quarreled for the spiritual appearance of the United States of America. Renev stood on that extremely popular in our homeland, the point of view that all of America is one pragmatism, spirituality and only the pursuit of a golden calf. I told him that he himself is a goat.

From the editor: We believe that the publication of this letter - without editorial changes and inappropriate comments - is the most adequate form of congratulations to the ladies. Even if this letter is a hoax (we emphasize: not our hoax), even if Elena Zykh (the author of the letter) does not exist, she should have been invented so that women would not lose sacred hope, and men would not lose inquisitorial vigilance.

Putin and children What will art be like for children? Grigory Zaslavsky Publication date: March 7, 2002 On Tuesday, the president convened his new Council for Culture and the Arts. The one that was created by presidential decree of November 8, 2001.

Literature category G Anatoly Azolsky. Search for the absolute: Stories, novel. - M.: OLMA-PRESS, 2001 - 383 p. (Original: Literature category A). - Circulation 5000 copies. ISBN 5-224-03165-6.

Censorship on television - directly and tangentially Valentina Totskaya Publication date: March 7, 2002 Strange as it may seem, the most pressing question for today's television is whether our society needs censorship or not? - discussed last week on the “Culture” channel . The program was called "Cultural Revolution" . It was hosted by Minister of Culture Mikhail Shvydkoy. It was filmed at the Literary Museum. A.S.

Hegelian experiments Notes from the week Mikhail Remizov Publication date: March 7, 2002 Last time I insisted that the status of a citizen presupposes participation in an organized state of extended war - for such is the state of a sovereign state . But there is another argument in the Hegelian inventory that reveals the internal connection between citizenship and armament.

On the borders the clouds move gloomily... Foreign policy last week Alexander Kazakov Publication date: March 7, 2002 Russia's foreign affairs continued to swarm around its borders last week (except that Minister Igor Ivanov flew to Italy).

"The most common drug is food." Paradoxical at first glance, the statement of A.L. Dobrokhotov hints at the relativity and profaneness of the concepts of “drugs” and “drug addiction”. Indeed, words and expressions like “air mania” or “use of clothes” would sound strange. “Mania” indicates something independent, independent of the will and at the same time connected with medicine, that is, something sick and alien, the attitude towards which cannot but be profane.

Seine, etc. Issue 32 Review of current online events and publications Tatyana Danilova Publication date: March 7, 2002 Is the Internet a physical space where boundaries and laws apply? Under whose jurisdiction is it? District Judge Ronald Whyte will have to answer these questions. On Monday, March 4, at a hearing in the US vs Elcomsoft case, Elcomsoft lawyer Joseph Burton filed a motion to dismiss the case because US law had not been violated.

Charisma And the geography of Taras Shevchenko for most Ukrainians begins with his childhood journey to the ends of the world . Teachers most often focus on this case already in the primary grades of secondary schools: one summer day, a six-year-old boy, without telling anyone, sets out from home towards the horizon - where, as it seems to him, the sky meets the earth and the light ends. The plain-steppe landscape tempts with its openness.

Give me a bandoneon, gold bars Natalia Zvenigorodskaya Publication date: March 7, 2002 A happy idea arose in the depths of the Imperial Russian Ballet - to introduce the Russian public to the most striking phenomena of world dance culture. In fact, isn’t the art of dance an ideal model of the world, where differences in cultural traditions do not become a reason for massacres, but unite people, nations, continents?

and for your saints there was the greatest light and the greatest snow was for your passers-by and every person would fold like a knife whenever I look after someone M.Gronas And Alexander Chudakov, a world-famous philologist, has long been writing excellent, exemplary Russian prose. Just open his memoir essay “Listening to Bondi”. True, it’s not at all “enough” for me to open : I immediately start rereading and can’t stop.