Survivor Publication date: July 18, 2003 receive by email print version RJ: I understand how uncles and aunts react to books. How do children feel about your books? Alexander Rosenstrom: My children don’t read my books. They don't even really understand them. But why do we think that the child read the book that he read with pleasure?

Sympathy for murderers is a hereditary disease Nikolay Morozov Publication date: July 9, 2003 "...We must sit down for negotiations, we must be able to forgive, we must be able to conduct a dialogue, we must be able to establish new relationships and a new order." From an interview with A. Cherkizov to the radio station "Echo of Moscow" 07/08/03.

Nune Barseghyan has several roles, which she tries not to mix. Let's list just a few that are known to an outside observer: Armenian by nationality and native language; Russian novelist; psychologist living and working in Germany. A year ago, a fourth incarnation appeared, probably the most public: the owner of one of the busiest magazines, the wise and mysterious abbess of a popular living sanatorium, a kind of holiday home on the shore of a virtual sea.

An argument in favor of the monarchy. Ending Igor Bogatsky Publication date: July 16, 2003 Start here Political parties are, as M. Duverger pointed out in his classic work, an integral and one of the fundamental institutions of liberal democracy.

This is criticism Issue 10 Publication date: July 18, 2003 We continue to publish conversations with literary critics. Today the “guest” of the column is Alexander Arkhangelsky . Russian Journal: Alexander Nikolaevich, last year RJ published the results of a survey in which writers were asked to name seven leading critics, in their opinion.

Archetype Method Oleg Basov Publication date: July 18, 2003 Mathematics entirely consists of propositions of the following type: if a given proposition is true in relation to a certain object, then the second proposition is also true in relation to it. It is characteristic that we ignore the nature of the object and do not know whether the first proposition is true.

Why YUKOS Natalia Serova Publication date: July 4, 2003 Truly , “wonderful are your works, Lord”: for the second day in a row, the oligarchs remain the main characters in the news, as if it were not 2003, but the second half of the 90s. On July 2, the main news was the purchase of the Chelsea football club by Roman Abramovich, and in the evening - apparently so that the morning newspapers had time to shoot back - a discussion began of a forceful “attack” on YUKOS.

Shaheeds among us Dmitry Danilov Publication date: July 11, 2003 Last night it became clear that the circles on the water left after the explosion in Tushino were not yet going to disperse. One can assess differently the level of threat of a new wave of terror in Moscow, which was illustrated by Zarema Muzhikhoeva’s attempt to blow up the Ginger cafe on Tverskaya-Yamskaya. The terrorist attack was prevented, however, one person died - Russian FSB Major Georgy Trofimov.

And information came from Kaliningrad about the idea of ​​​​installing a monument to the “shuttle” as a true hero of the perestroika era (at the suggestion of a former “shuttle”, now one of the local city prefects). The question inevitably arises about the perpetuation of the victims of this same time.

Terror on stream Igor Fedyukin Publication date: July 7, 2003 It is impossible to understand whether the terrorist attack in Tushino tells us anything about the terrorists themselves. We don’t know one iota more about their numbers and preparedness, about whether terrorism is on the rise or whether these are the last desperate convulsions of the irreconcilables who realize their loss. Two female suicide bombers in Moscow - is that a lot or a little?

Corsican clans beat Paris The voting population of Corsica, and 60.52% of the island's inhabitants took part in the referendum, was divided almost equally. 49.02% of referendum participants were in favor of the reform, and 50.98% were against it.

Time to reread Machiavelli Publication date: July 14, 2003 receive by email print version The people who founded the modern rule of the bourgeoisie were anything, but not bourgeois-limited people F.

Somehow , God forbid, in 1988 - when “acceleration” was already that, and “perestroika” and its sister “glasnost” were even more so - I was sitting in the kitchen of an old friend, drinking crappy wine and chatted about politics. At that time, “Russian conversations” were especially heated, because they were fueled by “Ogonyok,” who performed the duties of “Iskra” in those leaden years.

Does this mean that competition between nations will never end on earth - to have your army stronger, more powerful? Does this mean that the competition between states in creating more advanced machines and methods of destruction will never end? So this tension will never end: both economic and moral? Yes, never...

First article Second article Third article Made in USSR In our penates, all the mistakes made by IBM and DEC, which were authoritative in the eyes of the Soviet authorities, were reproduced exactly, and with some time lag, which was already funny - in 1969, when the age of large machines had actually ended, a decision was made to copy the IBM System /360, in 1974, they finally came to their senses about minicomputers, and almost all of the eighties, when the world was fascinated by the unfolding