Where we are not is no better, or Long live the old European theater! Grigory Zaslavsky Date of publication: October 29, 2003 The only good thing about the Iron Curtain was illusions: things are bad here, we thought, but there are, thank God, distant lands where everything is different, where there are rivers of milk and banks of jelly. The curtain fell and deprived us of our last illusions. So it is with the theater in St.

Putin is a democratic princeps Speech at a meeting of the Open Forum club Gleb Pavlovsky Date of publication: October 29, 2003 This obliges I propose to separate the moral outrage at what is happening from the deeply positive fact that politics is returning to the country, which we - and I am one of those who participated in this - have tried to freeze for the last three years, limiting it to the Kremlin. This was the problem, and it was solved. "Tightening the nuts" is nonsense.

"Down with autocracy!" Alexey Nevzorov Date of publication: October 29, 2003 With the light hand of Liliya Shevtsova, the political regime in Russia received an innocuous political science nickname - elective autocracy . Even vindictive foreigners, who impute monarchical habits to us, repeat vying with each other: “Putin is a good Russian Tsar.” It turns out that not only Russian political scientists are strong in hindsight. What to take from the domestic examination, entangled in three Putins.

The Battle of the Giants, or Bringing to "Social Responsibility" Commentary on the “New Social Contract” presented by I.

Towards the trash Yuri Revich Date of publication: October 29, 2003 One of the most serious problems of modern civilization is the problem of sewing hangers on ready-made clothes. Don't believe me? Personally, for me, who, like all normal people, does not go to a special tailor, but buys jackets at the nearest store, not a single hanger lasted longer than three months.

A brief dictionary of harmful Internet characters. 1 Elena Sherman Date of publication: October 29, 2003 He who is forewarned is forearmed. Folk wisdom Virtual boor In a virtual boor, he does the same thing as a real boor, that is, he humiliates and insults the people around him. He differs from a real boor solely by the verbal nature of his boorishness (and that’s good) and by the predominance of obscene language in verbal diarrhea.

And Bel Posse , an Argentine writer and diplomat, Argentina's ambassador to Spain, wrote a novel from the history of the Conquest.

And the famous Italian cultural critic, art critic and curator Achille Bonito Oliva came to Moscow on October 21 and spoke in two guises at once. As a practitioner, he is the curator of the exhibition "A Flash of Art" , held at the Moscow House of Photography. The exhibition was a logical continuation of the exposition of the great Italian paparazzi Tazzo Sechiaroli, beloved by Muscovites, which was shown at the last “Fashion and Style in Photography” festival.

"Third Sector": a new generation or a dead-end branch? Mikhail Kordonsky Date of publication: October 29, 2003 And unexpectedly caused the greatest resonance. of all my publications in recent years, the article “How to get a grant?” . It would seem that the topic is not so acute, and there is moderate pathos, and no object of criticism is personally named - so, in general...

- Roman , what is the online department of the party? - The Internet department in the structure of the SDPU(U) executive committee arose on the eve of the parliamentary elections - in the fall of 2001, as part of the SDPU(U) election headquarters.

Where did you get such a book, lady? Tatiana Sotnikova Date of publication: October 29, 2003 On the one hand, I never respond to stupid things that are said or written about me. It’s clear how you start to look when they egg you on, and you, like a naive fool, begin to exclaim: “I’m not like that, I’m waiting for the tram!” But on the other hand: why is it necessary, like a meek lamb, to endure not just rudeness, but rudeness based on a conscious and thoughtful lie?