Soft-boiled ministerial boots Sergey Volkov Publication date: August 25, 2003 And August, as you know, is about asters, stars, the month of late kisses and starry showers. For education workers, this is also the time for teacher councils, round tables and conferences, at which plans for the upcoming school year are outlined. The events are traditional, but in our critical time of reform they can be quite exciting and discouraging.

It’s a common opinion that if a person has not become a poet under 30 years old, he will no longer be. If this is true, then for a certain type of poets. Their other type is also known: for example, Gumilyov , who was slowly rising, was rising highly . He did not have time to rise to his height, in the last collection he only went to something completely new for himself.

On a wave of optimism Dmitry Karasev Publication date: August 25, 2003 Last week the country celebrated the anniversary of the 1991 coup and the 1998 default. It’s time to “collect stones” again. Reflecting on the causes and consequences of these events, one cannot help but experience, to put it mildly, “mixed feelings.” Firstly, when everyone feels bad, you can’t make everyone feel good at once. People are born different, and there must be a law of conservation of matter.

X an irrigation book with an adventure plot, for spyophiles and historians, as well as for thinking about terrorism . The book is exciting and dizzying: for everything is initially not entirely clear, and by the end it becomes even more incomprehensible. Soberly, in a businesslike and conscientious written: unknown facts, quotes from documents inaccessible to the ordinary reader, interconnection, analysis - without synthesis.

The magic of round numbers Dmitry Desyateryk Publication date: August 25, 2003 opens on August 27 The 60th Venice Film Festival . Italians like to remind you that the film extravaganza on Lido Island is the oldest of its kind in the world.

An ambitious corporation - AD LIB. Part 2 Alexander Neklessa Publication date: August 25, 2003 We built the future Corporations that pursue primarily economic goals are also undergoing noticeable changes. A special quality of the changes taking place in their depths is the intensive intellectualization of routine activities, the expansion of the working space of high technologies, including humanitarian ones.