This is criticism Issue 4 Publication date: May 22, 2003 Quite a lot has been written about the changes that have occurred over the past decade and a half in Russian literature; much less is said about the changes that occurred during the same period in Russian criticism. The Russian magazine, as part of the project “ This is Criticism ,” begins publishing a series of materials, the purpose of which is a systematic analysis of the current state of Russian literary criticism.

Linguistics and fiction Maxim Krongauz Publication date: May 22, 2003 And the eternal crisis... A remarkable feature of our time is that talk about the crisis does not stop. In particular, about the crisis of science. And in particular, humanities science. The latter, in my opinion, is surprising if you look at at least formally objective criteria: the amount of published literature, the number of conferences and seminars, and, finally, the number of graduate students.

Is Honesty the Best Policy? Alexander Bakhmanov Publication date: May 22, 2003 The first methodological problem facing an expert analyzing the Presidential Address is the question: in what perspective should it be viewed? As a phenomenon of public policy? Or as a PR campaign? Or as some kind of indicator of the intentions of the main official in the state hierarchy of the country?

"Literature is truth serum" Frederick Begbeder Publication date: May 22, 2003 As part of the recently held French Film Festival, Kiev was visited by the fashionable French writer Frederic Beigbeder, author of the bestsellers "99 Francs", "Holiday in a Coma" and " Stories on Ecstasy ". He is a former advertising agent and, accordingly, the favorite writer of the era of slogans and banners. And, apparently, in its current role it adheres to a fairly successful advertising strategy.

Masks show based on Bulgakov Alexandra Tuchinskaya Publication date: May 22, 2003 Television has recently begun to actively instill the preventive vaccine of classical culture into the mass viewer. In the end, the problem of how to get a million or become the last hero, how to publicly grab a jackpot on the field of miracles or a portion of offensive revelations through the windows of all-Russian glory - all these “too human” concerns have long been the subjects of great literature.

Table tennis-2 Continuation. See here . 3. Of course, there is life on Mars. This does not follow any speculative considerations-this follows from the pictures transmitted from the surface by its American Viking-1 station in July 1976 and intercepted by our interception systems. Live on Mars is not just - life there is quite reasonable and civilized! This follows from the same pictures: it is shown that at least they tear the hair on their heads.