Kiss a child, or We fly to Pyatigorsk for summer Evgeny Ermolin Publication date: April 2, 2003 Yesterday I arrived in Pyatigorsk, rented an apartment on the edge of the city, on the highest place, at the foot of Mashuk: during a thunderstorm, the clouds will descend to my roof... Pechorin's Journal The paradise of the then town has long been its middle. But Mashuk still obscures the near horizon.

Insulation Valentina Buckmaster Publication date: April 1, 2003 Without exception, all Russians are shocked by the simply ridiculous “thickness” of the walls of houses in America. In the family of our compatriots, a karate boy punched a wall with his foot. America has a different climate. Probably, half-meter walls are not needed here. The main task is to keep the house cool. The size of your gas and electricity bill largely depends on this.

Manifesto of the winners. Is United Russia strong? Sergey V. Biryukov Publication date: April 2, 2003 The it held last Saturday, recent scandal associated with the publication of the “false” manifesto of United Russia, as well as the congress naturally fueled interest in the party’s programmatic and ideological developments.

“The master and I have already finished cavatina...” Alexey Yakovlev Publication date: April 2, 2003 Newspapers to us and television brought a sensation . We are talking about a new production of Glinka's " Ruslan and Lyudmila " at the Bolshoi Theater . The authors of the correspondence emphasize the word “new”, that is, “we have never had anything like this before”! Let's look at some quotes.

European-quality renovation of samizdat Nikolai Vostrikov Publication date: April 2, 2003 My old friend, my club preference partner, with whom I never lost, left her American husband after default, retrained as a blue stocking and is now regularly on duty at the Books of Russia fair . As a devoted friend and also no longer a card sharper, but even a bookworm, I receive new items from a friend - smack! You'll rock. Here's the latest news: " Russian Book Newspaper ".

Never before has it happened that, overshadowing Chatsky or Famusov and others, Famusov’s daughter Sophia stood in the center of “ Woe from Wit .” The best actresses of the Russian stage often refused the “blue” role, preferring the “sad stole”, the rigorist, the reasoner, the playful and laughing maid Liza. However, it was the “Queen” - Sophia that was recognized as the main value and mystery of Tovstonogov’s radical, dangerous with political “allusions”, “male” performance.

Kiss a kitten, or Why read weekly magazines Rebekah Frumkina Publication date: April 1, 2003 The kitten has a black head and back and white paws. The nose, naturally, is pink - although it is not visible in the photo. The kitten kisses Alexei Kudrin . However, it is more likely that Kudrin kisses him: after all, unlike a puppy, whose kiss is expressed in the fact that he will lick you on the nose, the cat here is “on its own” - it allows itself to be kissed.

"It's the Long Middle Ages": Le Goff's history and otherness Le Goff J. Other Middle Ages: Time, labor and culture of the West / Transl. from French S. V. Chistyakova and N. V. Shevchenko, ed. V. A. Babintseva. Ekaterinburg: Ural Publishing House. University, 2002. - 328 p. Circulation 2000.

I'm made of meat Lip reading. Issue 5 Linor Goralik Publication date: April 1, 2003 Direct statement, indirect statement. Graffiti, tattooing, scratching with a blunt wrench on the glass of subway cars and the plywood panels of elevators. And we, by the way, are adults, completely adult human beings . By the way, we still have to work in this city and all that, and it would be awkward and somehow even inappropriate. Direct statement, indirect statement.