Two clicks away Lip reading. Issue 18 Stanislav Lvovsky Publication date: July 23, 2003 Chatting leads to divorce . That's okay, that's nothing else. But what should be in the mind of a person who clicks on the banner Shocking details about Peter the Great ? “The same as everyone else,” they say, “the same as everyone else.” Summer residents blew up 70 wagons with shells. The Zolotukhinsky butcher hopes for a jury trial . The same as the rest, everything is like people.

Separatism and sovereignty And the American political scientist D. Horowitz 1 defines separatism as the exit of a group and its territory from the jurisdiction of a larger state of which it is part, and distinguishes it from irredentism - the desire to annex an ethnically related population and the territory inhabited by it to an “ethnically close” state .

Servant of Harmony John Adams brings modern music out of its impasse Part 1 Alex Ross Publication date: July 23, 2003 Highway #1, along the California coast, north of San Francisco, becomes so picturesque that it attracts the eye like a work of art. Such a landscape could be the fruit of the efforts of a miracle worker, fascinated by unexpected effects and able to connect the incompatible.

The most unvisited departments of American museums are the departments of old American painting. The Italian Renaissance or French impressionism are incomparably more popular than domestic art of the 18th and 19th centuries. Apparently, the old complex of cultural inferiority that Americans for some reason experienced for a long time in front of Europe is making itself felt. But in vain. After all, their old art itself is remarkably healthy and does not reveal any complexes.

Rethinking "leftism" Alexander Ivanov Publication date: July 23, 2003 Response to the book : Zizek Slavoj. Welcome to the desert of the Real/ lane. from English Artema Smirnova - M.: Foundation "Pragmatics of Culture", 2002. - 160 p. I consider Zizek's book perhaps the most important in recent years. It's not often that we get a timely book by a timely thinker on a timely topic. And, importantly, a left-wing thinker - who is very critical of the European left-wing situation today.

The perception of Mayakovsky - by readers, poets, critics, and authorities - is a huge and essentially undeveloped topic.

“We need to support the desire to create” Valentina Sumarokova Publication date: July 23, 2003 Nowadays it is considered the norm to work in order to earn money. Even if a publishing house positions itself as an intellectual one, it is forced - for the sake of business development - to publish consumer goods quite often. But this situation is natural if the reader is the main consumer.