Dissident's mistake Andrey Lankov Date of publication: October 15, 2003 In mid-September, South Korean newspapers reported that Professor Son Du-yul, who had been working in Germany for many years at the University of Münster, was coming to the country. He was supposed to take part in a meeting of human rights activists, veterans of the struggle against the military regimes that ruled Korea in 1961-1987.

Egor Kholmogorov , Liberal and national imperialism /13.10/ Part 1. Mission impossible . Without exaggerating too much, one can translate the ideological formula of the “liberal empire” into a formula for direct political action: “Russia’s imperial mission is to overthrow the anti-democratic regime of Lukashenko and transfer property in Belarus into the hands of Russian oligarchs.” The “Network State of Russia” will become part of a new world order similar to the “Empire” described by A.

Did you sleep. And in this nervous sleep you were scared, dumb as a fish, like a mine on the eve of an explosion in an alarming, unsteady silence. With uncryed melancholy you slept like a lonely raven. Yana Jean. Lullaby for Father " Every writer writes one book all his life." Everyone - not everyone, but Nodar Jean still wrote. Moreover, he did not continue it, but kept adding and rewriting it all the time.

The metaphor of landscape is a convenient means. Always at hand, very clearly, easily imagined: the splendor of the peaks and the despicable lowlands, the almighty ocean and the shapeless swamp. In relation to the last anniversary film forum in Venice, another toponymic allegory is suitable - the plateau.

Fifteen -minute applause at the end of "Return" , the debut work of Andrei Zvyagintsev . Viewers leave with tears in their eyes after viewing this brutal and touching film. Everyone's sympathy is with the film. The jury's verdict at the 60th Venice Film Festival seems a foregone conclusion.

The pitfalls of oil wealth Date of publication: October 15, 2003 From the editor . The published text is an excerpt from the report “Who benefits from the easy money from Caspian oil?”, prepared by the Open Society Institute with the involvement of experts from various foundations and research organizations, including the notorious Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank.

Against the backdrop of Pushkin, or Following the upcoming dispute Sergey Volkov Date of publication: October 15, 2003 Let's start with the title. Following - because the argument just took place, just a couple of hours ago, during the filming of the “ Cultural Revolution ” program; upcoming - because viewers will see the actual program probably in two or three weeks. And against the backdrop of Pushkin - since the filming took place at the A.S.

About the culture of cynicism (based on the novel “Crystal Coffin” by Sergei Kuznetsov) D.G. Date of publication: October 15, 2003 So the soul sleeps, like a horse at a post, Without driving away flies, without hearing speech. She dreams of black-eyed fate, Bare-haired and young forever. B. Poplavsky 1. There is no doubt that detective novels constitute a separate literary genre, the laws of which are completely separate from the laws of a psychological novel or, say, an epic poem.

The phrase “natural rent” is as indispensable in today’s political lexicon as a mustache is for a hussar. The fact that the light converged like a wedge exclusively on her is perceived as a natural fact. A public politician who repeats like a mantra: “natural rent, natural rent, natural...” supposedly automatically achieves electoral enlightenment, the stick takes flight, and from the crevices of the earth tight streams of general national welfare begin to flow of their own accord.