Even a baby now knows that one cannot enter the same water twice. But if Western civilization, striving forward (and only forward!), has long lived according to this principle, then societies that have not yet completely broken with tradition tend to enter the water a second time, as does the heroine of the book by the Indian writer Arundhati Roy .

Seine, etc. Issue 65 Review of current online events and publications Tatyana Danilova Publication date: July 8, 2002 The Economist compares the media landscape from the early days of the Internet to today, where blogs have attracted a significant audience of consumers of news content. After costly failures of the media to attract visitors with the cream roses of interactivity and prettiness, blogs have made it clear: information and linking matter, the rest is just decoration.

Seoul: a city-state? Andrey Lankov Publication date: July 8, 2002 Today 's South Korea is a country of city dwellers. In 2000, out of 46.1 million Koreans, 36.6 million lived in cities, or, to put it another way, 79.6% of the country's total population. At the same time, the majority of those Koreans who live in rural areas still work in cities. The share of peasants in the population is only 8.6%.

Ritual dances usually mark changing political seasons. Octavio Pass The celebration (7 years of FEP and 5 years of Russian Journal) took place on July 5 in the open air near the Santa Fe restaurant. Top government officials, leading experts, journalists, as well as RJ employees in full force discussed joint plans accompanied by unobtrusive jazz. There were no speeches, only G.O. Pavlovsky at the very beginning wished everyone a pleasant time.

Magazine Fiction: Issue 89 "UFO" #54 Inna Bulkina Publication date: July 8, 2002 This issue of "UFO" does not seem to have any organizing plot, be it obvious or not, but there is a certain inequality and different quality of texts, which is annoying in a disciplinary journal. In principle, methodological inconsistency (and inconsistency) is sometimes useful, or at least indicative. It’s worse when we observe methodological insanity, and there is plenty of this in other departments of UFO.

Alive as life Katahreza #17: "Mitin journal" #60 on the background of "Live journal" Dmitry Bavilsky Publication date: July 9, 2002 As for the regular issue, we can say that the anniversary issue of Mitya’s Magazine was the thickest in its entire history. This trend began to emerge several issues ago: each of the successive issues of Mitya's Journal began, to the delight of its readers, to get fatter and swell. It seems clear why: “MF” is its own context, autonomous, universal.

The beginning is here . III About the processes of Russian history that prepared Bolshevism and in it found their continuation and other existence, enough is known to admit: a century and a half of Russia, approximately from the 1830s-40s. represent a single, albeit internally differentiated, era, the meaning of which is the transition from the agrarian-class stage to the urban one, in the future, apparently, the corporate-urban one.

Israeli Misha Verbytskyi Publication date: July 8, 2002 1. I never liked the Russian Internet. At first I didn’t like Zhurnal.ru. I was wildly infuriated by the idiotic “Migration Flies” , where some moronic pensioner talked about banking sites in Estonia and Scandinavia. I was annoyed by Leni Delitsyn’s speeches about the sex industry and banner advertising.