Magazine Fiction: Issue 76 "Star" #2, 3 (2002) Inna Bulkina Publication date: April 1, 2002 In the latest issues of Zvezda, literature, as often happens in St. Petersburg magazines, seriously loses to everything except. The reason is not even an exceptionally weak literary department, but simply very good non-fiction. The February issue contains the end of the “romance with the Hero” - “Primus” by Mikhail Chulaka.

And it is known that if you draw a curled mustache on a person, his face becomes open to psychological analysis. The Russian Journal of Analysts department conducted a corresponding study. The group of respondents were shown portraits of some leading Russian and world politicians, as well as historical figures. Respondents were required to indicate with whom each portrait is associated. The results in a number of cases turned out to be non-trivial (and in some cases - quite trivial).

Twilight of geopolitics. Continuation Sergey V. Biryukov Publication date: April 1, 2002 The beginning is here . Let 's try to characterize the situation that has developed in the world after September 11 and the Bush administration's promotion of the famous "axis of evil" doctrine. To do this, first of all, it is necessary to understand the logic of the interests and actions of the United States itself.

has been remembered more and Lately, an old political joke more often , appropriate on April 1, when old jokes go especially well. A Jew comes to the clinic and asks where the ear and eye doctor is. “We don’t have such a doctor,” they answer him. “There is an otolaryngologist who can look at the ear, throat, nose; there is an ophthalmologist...” - “No, I need an ear and eye.” - “We don’t have such a doctor.

Z fight, buddy. Sorry for not using your invitation to the exhibition. It is unhealthy, vitamin deficiency, the translation of the clock for an hour in advance - that is, they selected the hour of spring and sun, and will be returned in autumn rain - and generally overdo it. So this week I only went to exhibitions next to the nesting site on Tverskaya. Suddenly he discovered a two-step from himself the museum-quarter of the publisher Sytin , and there is an exhibition of Eve Levina-Rosengolts .

The future Queen Mother Elizabeth was in place on August 4, 1900 in one of the best British families - Bowls Lion, and grew up in the most beautiful of Scottish castles - Glamis, belonging to her father, Count Stratmor. According to a strange coincidence on the day of her death, the Channel "Culture" showed a documentary dedicated to the family estate of the deceased queen. The family was related to the Scottish Royal House; According to legend, the legendary Macbeth once ruled in Glamis.

Seine, etc. Issue 39 Review of current network events and publications Tatyana Danilova Publication date: April 1, 2002 What 's happening around the CBDTPA (Broadband and Digital Television Access Act) is already sounding like a sitcom. The political minutiae is ready to lift up its pants and rush for a place at the entertainment trough in order to be holier than the Pope and shout about the inadequacy of the anti-consumer measures provided for in the CBDTPA.

Southeast Asian economies: up, down and up again Andrey Lankov Publication date: April 1, 2002 Until the beginning of the 1960s. The states of East and even more so Southeast Asia did not stand out in any way on the economic map of the world. Korea and Taiwan, Indonesia and Thailand were perceived in the West as typical developing countries: exotic, poor, corrupt. In many ways, this corresponded to reality - there was plenty of poverty and corruption there.

Round table. Extra. Will they cut us down? Swearing on the merits Publication date: April 1, 2002 The mind is preparing to introduce new taxes - on body parts. An informed source (on a confidential basis, of course) informed us that, according to the planned measures, parts of the body on which an individual will maliciously evade taxes will be subject to confiscation. Unfortunately, it is not yet known whether the confiscated goods will be sold on the medical drug market.

Stopped time Oleg Pavlov Publication date: April 1, 2002 Russian prose in the early nineties sharply changed its face, although few people agreed that the authors of debut stories, which were numerous in magazines, would barely disappear before they came with a second wind or a second wave with stories and novels.