Harvard: Tercentenary of St. Petersburg-5 Grigory Kaganov Date of publication: September 18, 2003 Let's return to Cambridge, Massachusetts. There, let me remind you, the Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University is holding a conference dedicated to the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg .

Recently, Moscow residents had the opportunity to compare two radically divergent points of view on the same event - the terrorist attack on New York on September 11, 2001. The first point of view comes from eyewitnesses of the tragedy: the Museum of Modern Art on Petrovka presents the exhibition “This is New York: The Democracy of Photographs” 1 .

Two towers Alexander Dugin Date of publication: September 18, 2003 Not long ago, Gleb Pavlovsky introduced an interesting document into the expert community under the long title “On the negative consequences of the “summer offensive” of the minority opposition to the course of the President of the Russian Federation.” A special meeting of the "Civil Debates" club, held on September 4 at the Press Center of the Izvestia newspaper, was devoted to a discussion of this document.

I would never recommend this book for reading. Just one cover with a melodramatic picture can cause disgust - like the sweet-tragic advertisements of Indian cinema. However, there is something in these memoirs, indicated already in the subtitle, that grabs attention and forces you to look more closely at their problems.

The presidential elections in the Chechen Republic, scheduled for October 5 this year, complete the important period for the republic of the post-Maskhadov institutionalization of power, which began with the referendum on the constitution on March 21.

We continue to publish conversations with literary critics. Today the guest of the column is Pavel Basinsky . Russian Magazine: Pavel Valerievich, let's start with a question about the mysterious Yasnaya Polyana award, of which you are a member of the jury... Pavel Basinsky: In fact, I was a consultant on that part of the award that is awarded for the best debut, although all the newspapers actually called me a member of the jury...