Olga Slavnikova is a prose writer and critic. In the short list of the National Bestseller Prize (the announcement of the winner will be held on May 31, 2002 in St. Petersburg), her novel "Immortal" ("October", 2001, # 6) was included. Photo by Vitaly Pustovalov Russian magazine : We met at a press conference on the opening of the competition for the 2002 Debut Award. You are the coordinator of this award.

Two portraits without interior Tatyana Irmiyaeva Dear reader! You can take part in the discussion by writing, which will be published on this page. Kobo Abe is a sweaty whore and a FUCKING FUCKER, Shrek the Fucking, trippy-fucking-fucking-mando-fucking, sucking complete!!!

Who is threatening America? Especially for Russian Magazine Mikhail Falkov, Natasha Kanevskaya Publication date: May 28, 2002 Following the fact that the anti-terrorist operation in Afghanistan allowed the United States to significantly expand its presence in Central Asia and the Caucasus, public and behind-the-scenes American policy is becoming increasingly active in the Middle East.

Festital "Bohemia -jazz" was opened in the best traditions of concerts dedicated to the Day of the Soviet Army - on the MDM scene with a slender step, under the deafening drum fraction, the ensemble of the Moscow Military Conservatory "marching drummers" came out. According to Matvey Ganapolsky, the leading of the Echo of Moscow radio station and one of the discoverers of the festival, it was a kind of gift of the president.

Storytellers (8) Stories with a happy ending, truthfully told by a direct participant Marietta Chudakova Publication date: May 28, 2002 Philology department as such In the first year, as you know, almost all lectures are propaedeutic. I read about Russian folklore Chicherov . The "History of the USSR" began with the principalities. I started looking around the department for Soviet literature.

Russia is a “car” that is more valuable than a “steam locomotive” Afterword to George Bush's visit to Moscow and St. Petersburg Alexander Kazakov Publication date: May 28, 2002 I confess that it never ceases to amaze me that in international politics, full of symbolism and all sorts of significance, empty rhetoric often plays a greater role than real deeds. And it brings good political and economic dividends. For example, a weekend spent by two “the most humane people” (George Bush Jr.

Review by S.K. #107 In the genre of “notes of a simple-minded reader,” that is, without hesitation to call a spade a spade, about foam formations in literature (Prokhanov, Sorokin, Pirogov, Verbitsky, etc.) Sergey Kostyrko Publication date: May 28, 2002 I am forced to apologize to the reader for what he will read - if, of course, he begins to read at all - below. Instead of the Review itself, what follows will be a text provoked by Ageev’s last “Hunger” .

The beginning is here . Refusal of the possibility of the rule of law In the era of Ivan the Terrible, a new principle of government was being tested. If the Tatar-Mongols ruled Russia cruelly and without rights, but ruled from the outside, now their prince establishes the same principles of rule, that is, rule based on the absolute lack of rights of his subjects, but this is rule carried out from within.

Geopolitical meaning of the Putin-Bush summit Alexander Dugin Publication date: May 28, 2002 If we consider geopolitics as a science, then at the theoretical level, its main postulate is the statement that the type of civilization is predetermined by geography - landscape, climate, structure of space. Based on this, geopolitics defines two types of civilizations - maritime (island) and land (continental).

Restoration problems Maxim Vaskov Publication date: May 28, 2002 And the idea of ​​​​restoring the monarchy has firmly entered into the political and ideological usage of modern Russia. Some Russian politicians and representatives of the cultural elite see the restoration of the monarchy as a panacea for all the troubles of Russian reality. The arguments of enthusiasts of the monarchical idea are simple and, at first glance, irresistible.

"So in the future the past smolders..." Part 2 Publication date: May 28, 2002 What factual basis does the statement “Soviet secondary education was the best in the world” have? Is this nostalgia, illusion, pro-communist agitation? What was it really - individual teachers, unique high schools or an educational system? Special temporary periods of “favorability” or the inevitability of the spiritual principle as such?