Bringing the world currency market to a single denominator is a natural process. But if there are several denominators, this will not end well. As long as there was one world currency on the planet - the US dollar, we did not have to worry about the future of civilization. With the advent of the euro, the foundations of the world order, laid 218 years ago 1 , were shaken.

While talking about the development of the Internet on different continents, we followed one constant principle. The subject of our stories has always been states whose existence is recognized by the world community. Whether they have developed IT or whether it is worse than a cancerous tumor is another question. Due to such a one-sided approach, several states have undeservedly disappeared from our view, which, in fact, are not such.

Last weekend, domestic culture suffered two serious losses at once: on the night of June 15, the writer Alexei Zverev and musician Yevgeny Kolobov did not become. Zverev’s name is well acquainted with RJ readers: Alexey Matveevich was our author in “pre -crisis” times, and in last year’s interview he spoke in detail about his activities as deputy deputy post editor -in -chief of "foreign literature".

Life with "Idiot" Vladimir Zabaluev, Alexey Zenzinov Publication date: June 18, 2003 Where is Dostoevsky? with famous notes. The dead man would have seen how foreheads hit doors ... Vladimir Vysotsky.

Start - here , continuation - here 3. The political rhetoric of the Address is concentrated in its last part, which begins with an analysis of the international situation, and, in general, “refines” the government’s rhetoric as far as the “external addressee” is concerned. It is noteworthy that the presentation of the main points of the military reform , called here “modernization,” addressed to the people, in this context cannot but have a clear foreign policy effect.

Fly in the ointment - 2 Marat Gizatulin Publication date: June 18, 2003 It was not easy for B ulatu Okudzhava to deal with publishers during his life. Many works made it into print with difficulty, sometimes appearing in a distorted form. So, for example, the poem “ Prayer ” was able to see the light only with the title “Prayer of Francois Villon”. Other poems simply could not see the light of day for many years. The same thing happened with initiations.

... And do not strain your eyes, do not struggle with all your might somewhere at the incomprehensible distance of other people's times and cultures. In fact, everything is in front of you. The only effort that is necessary is to get rid of the prepared trepidation. See what you see. Egyptian pyramids, for example. Which, however, will be shown only in the evening. At first there will be Cairo. From the window of the bus.

Take action, sister! Inna Ryzhkova Publication date: June 18, 2003 “Dear Dashenka! Reading your books, I feel better, in the sense that “all is not lost.” My mother says that you are too immersed in our dull reality, but on the other hand, the reality of Dasha and Evlampia makes you relax... At least in the same metro..." Daria Dontsova's article is filled with such touching and tongue-tied confessions.

Why she? Dan Dorfman Publication date: June 18, 2003 " Russian Journal" has already written about Dontsova twice. At first it was just abuse , but it’s worth publishing such texts as an illustration of a severe syndrome, which I would call in the words of Panikovsky: “Who are you?” Well, a restrained article , one of the heroines of which was also Dontsova. Despite the restraint of tone, it did not suit me at all, because its author did not try to understand the secret of Dontsova’s success.