Together Water marks. Issue 9 Anna Kuznetsova Publication date: May 12, 2003 “ Thick ” literary magazines Boris Dubin, to whose article I am returning for the third and last time, also reproached that each of them has lost its “own” face, and the reader, who would have previously recognized “his” magazine, cannot now to distinguish one “thick” journal from another: the circle of authors and the range of ideas they have in common, and this, apparently, is their drawback.

European decadence EU enlargement as a failure of the European unification project Natalya Shastik Publication date: May 12, 2003 Europe is finally united. Contrary to the expectations of skeptics that the war in Iraq would somehow modify the processes of expansion of a single European space, Old Europe did not want to abandon the implementation of its long-standing and, perhaps, most ambitious program and, according to the previously agreed plan, reunited with the ten candidate countries.

Cinema on television: May 12 - 18 Antonina Kryukova Publication date: May 12, 2003 Monday, May 12 On the Rossiya channel at 20.55 there will be a premiere of the ten-episode film “The Idiot” , based on the novel of the same name by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky.

Prefixoid PAH- The Russian language of the electronic era lacks an element that would correspond to the English web and could serve as the first part of compound words related to the World Wide Web. Of course, there are professional terms “webmaster”, “web design”, etc., but the root meaning and figurative associations are lost in a foreign word. Unlike the English "web", the Russian "cobweb" is a rather long word, not very suitable for technical innovations.

Cavatina with soul Alexey Yakovlev Publication date: May 12, 2003 And so, reader, the premiere of “Ruslan” took place. Opinions are different: blasphemy and praise. The praise comes mainly from those who know well what the Academic Bolshoi Theater is, with its ossification and the inability to move the motionless colossus even a millimeter, who rejoice at any, even minimal, successes, who sincerely want at least something positive to happen at the Bolshoi.

S is Norton’s lectures read by Umberto Eco in 1994 in Harvard, are devoted to the role of “author” and “reader” (in various hypostles) in the process of “giving a form” of the literary work, as well as various modes of the literature and “reality” and, ultimately, the problem of establishing criteria for “literature” of one or another text.