All cities are like two pence, But not one, like Shilling, London. Shinling , as a unit of intricate cash flow, has long since been used both in London itself and in its many suburbs. Twelve years ago, one could occasionally meet coins of this dignity. For example, entrepreneurial taxi drivers sometimes, under a noise, gave the surrender to the stirring passengers in shillings for the purposes of natural healthy savings.

"A beautiful old Balkan custom" Elena Sherman Publication date: March 13, 2003 The murder of the Prime Minister of Serbia and Montenegro Zoran Djindjic was played out according to the classic Balkan scenario of recent decades.

Post-vertical period Sergey Markedonov Publication date: March 13, 2003 Future researchers of modern Russian history, characterizing the era of Vladimir Putin, will certainly highlight two separate stages in it - the period of strengthening the “vertical of power” and the “post-vertical” period. The boundary between these periods was the decision of the Constitutional Court of July 9, 2002, according to which the countdown of the first gubernatorial term begins in October 1999.

Psychic healing Timofey Chaly Publication date: March 13, 2003 For the time being, our body is completely silent, resignedly accepting everything that pours into it, is stuffed into it, penetrates the ears, nostrils, flashes before the eyes and sticks to the skin. He can endure such bullying for a long time, but not indefinitely. One day, this entire accumulation of cells, fluids and elements of the periodic table begins to be indignant and demand attention.

How to read well Maya Kucherskaya Publication date: March 13, 2003 in the 57th pavilion of the All- Russian Exhibition Center ” opened On March 12, the Sixth National Exhibition-Fair “ Books of Russia . It will close on Sunday, March 16th. It’s not for nothing that this fair is called “working”. Of the five days, only two are entirely given over to the “public” (March 15 and 16), that is, to every mortal book lover.

Petersburg on the fields Arkady Dragomoshchenko Publication date: March 13, 2003 Pictures turn the eye into a curious animal. To his pupil, St. Petersburg easily appears as a collection of postcards in unstable reflections of conversations about one’s own fate.

After reading this book , written by a sixteen-year-old French girl, an adult should certainly experience a gratifying feeling. Still, things are not as bad as parents think when they suddenly bother to pay attention to what their teenage children are reading, listening to or watching. True, the heroine of the story, Parisian schoolgirl Charlene, goes to prison for the murder of her friend, and this, of course, makes her wary.

How they quarreled... Report with thorns on the withers Petra Aretina Publication date: March 13, 2003 On February 23 , Kuznetsova congratulated Edelstein. And Edelshtein to Kuznetsov - on the contrary, from March 8th. Kuznetsova told Edelstein that, although he did not know how to read or shoot, he sang soulfully. But he told her that he didn’t look up from the book for twenty years, until schoolboy Dmitriev and his company, for which the colony is crying, beat off his liver.

“Tearing them to pieces” or “taking theirs by right”? Editor's Column Publication date: March 13, 2003 Now everyone is excitedly discussing the latest somersault of the central government . The president stuck his vertical into the network of “security agencies” - and slammed the most all-powerful “security officials”. Well, we'll have a little fun too.

The river of spring did not affect the repertoire poverty of Moscow concerts; Their programs are as predictable as mandatory in any city in Sovetskaya Street, Communist and Lenin. Over the past half a month , the second piano concert of Prokofiev , a triple concert by Beethoven , and not only them were played twice.

Reservation of the past Old and new. Issue 2 Sergey Kuznetsov Publication date: March 13, 2003 Clifford Simak. Goblin Sanctuary. 1968 Translation by Irina Gurova Starting today we have the turn of the “old”. I was going to write about books that do not seem relevant to the current literary process, but problems began with the first book that came to my mind.

New averages Mikhail Edelshtein Publication date: March 13, 2003 It's funny. I opened some old magazine and came across a devastating description given by A. Nemzer to the literary process of the 1970s and 80s, when criticism was engaged in “transforming writers with a glimmer of talent... into Figures, and good writers into Geniuses.” The nineties, characteristically, are not mentioned. Indeed, a “ wonderful decade ” as can be! In fact, the trend noted by A.