20 years of GNU Anton Moskal Date of publication: October 8, 2003 On September 27, 1983, Richard Stallman posted a message on the Usenet group net.usoft entitled "a new implementation of Unix." He wrote: "After Thanksgiving, I begin writing a complete Unix-compatible system called GNU (short for Gnu's Not Unix) and make it freely available to anyone who can use it. I need support with work, money, programs and hardware. ...

The Frankfurt Book Fair opened yesterday Date of publication: October 8, 2003 The Frankfurt Book Fair opened yesterday . Russia is now the guest of honor there . RJ will monitor events. Follow the publications, as they say. Along with materials about the fair, you can read short interviews with Russian publishers.

I will live, the will of God, with the Romanians: They say they are from the Volga region, like us. / Vysotsky / The Russian magazine has already written to AK, on ​​September 25, BSO PO/U Vladimir Fedoseyev opened the season with an exceptionally strong program from the works of B. Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and Enescu. According to a random coincidence, the day earlier in the homeland of Enescu , the international festival of his name ended.

To the organizers of the Frankfurt book fair Appeal Eduard Limonov Date of publication: October 8, 2003 Dear organizers of the Frankfurt Book Fair! Unfortunately, I will not be able to be with you these days. This is all the more unfortunate because the Frankfurt Fair 2003 is dedicated to Russian culture and Russian books. I will not be able to come to you because I have reason to believe that the Russian authorities will not let me back into Russia.

“Patriots” are under attack, or Why does Chubais need a “liberal empire”? Vladimir Golyshev Date of publication: October 8, 2003 Silence of the Lambs “The “liberal empire” of A. Chubais” arose so unexpectedly that even the most sophisticated of commentators could not squeeze out anything meaningful. You read and see small beads of nervous sweat on wrinkled foreheads. And that’s all... The year 1999 seemed to offer a saving analogy.

On September 30 , 2003, the most famous contemporary Russian artist in the West , Ilya Kabakov, turned 70 years old. This event was celebrated in the artist’s homeland with two exhibitions. A small retrospective of Kabakov’s works from Moscow collections has opened at the State Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA). The Moscow House of Photography on Ostozhenka organized an exhibition of photographic materials related in one way or another to the artist.

From the Internet to the World Wide Web Andrey Trofimov Date of publication: October 8, 2003 The author expresses his gratitude to Alexander Davydov , from whose work many of the ideas in the article were borrowed. Let 's imagine a hypothetical situation: all people on Earth have a constant connection to the Internet. Moreover, the connection is mobile and so high-speed that it allows you to exchange data almost instantly. You may ask: what is hypothetical here?

A Frenchman arrived and puzzled me. Michel Tournier is a humanist, a son of humanists, a student and teacher of humanities. He is nearly eighty, he is the most famous “living classic” in France, hung with all possible laurels - he was awarded by both the French Academy and the Goncourt Academy, which is not very friendly to it, and so on.

RJ under two courts Date of publication: October 8, 2003 From the editor : “On October 6, 2003, in the Solntsevsky District Court of Moscow, the claim of S.V. Pugachev against G.O. Pavlovsky, the editors of the media: “Russian Journal”; “Political Expert Network “Kremlin.org”; "Independent newspaper"; "Vedomosti"; "Echo of Moscow" on the protection of honor, dignity and compensation for moral harm." This is a fragment of an official notice received by the editorial office of "Russian Journal".

Harvard: Tercentenary of St. Petersburg-6 Grigory Kaganov Date of publication: October 8, 2003 Not only American museums (which was already discussed in one of the previous materials), but also American universities, in addition to their direct purpose, also serve as impressive monuments of private charity. Not only on every building and on every piece of territory there is an inscription chiseled on stone or carved on copper, perpetuating the name of the one with whose money it was built.