Happiness in French Jacqueline Remy Publication date: December 16, 2003 Modern French people believe that they live in a society free of religion, ideology and devoid of any roots. As for happiness, they are ready to be content with very little. Many French authors reflect on this topic. It seems that a simple and gentle melody is floating in the sky over France. This is a victorious song of quiet happiness, wise unpretentiousness, and satisfaction with the bare essentials.

Internet in Orthodox style Ksenia Luchenko Publication date: December 16, 2003 Orthodox believers light candles and submit notes “for health” or “for peace” via the Internet ( moleben.narod.ru , www.liturgy.ru ). Sometimes they watch broadcasts of worship services or participate in interactive press conferences of the clergy . Before going to the temple, they can look at the schedule of services and the map.

The split of Europe Ruslan Hestanov Publication date: December 16, 2003 Europe will not fall from the sky. She might show up today out of an anxious feeling of helplessness. Jürgen Habermas The European Union remains too heterogeneous for its weight meant something on the scales of world politics. Alfred Muschg We have always been afraid of being subordinated to the most strong countries of the Union members, France and Germany.

And yet it is surprising. Not Chomsky’s ability to work, not a stubborn belief in progress and social justice, not an eternally young dissidence, and not even the number of books that could be used to pave Lexington Avenue leading to the White House like tiles (and that would be a good happening, by the way).

Reefs of the Independent Internet Victor Zakharchenko Publication date: December 16, 2003 Fate decreed that New Caledonia is a unique country. Access to the Internet appeared here before the status of an independent state itself. The Internet came to New Caledonia in 1995. Only three years later, the government decided to put the question of the country’s independent status to a national referendum.

" The two years of the existence of the journal" Domestic notes "released 13 numbers. One full set of numbers weighs 10 kg 650 g, is a stack of 31 cm high, consists of 5,764 pages.

In the last issue of this year, the publication of the “ Books of Life ” by Anna Vasilevskaya: “The Blockade Chapters” was completed in the February and March numbers, now the time is counted back: the history of family, childhood, the village way, the city (Leningrad), the school, then the medical school, the Finnish war - and so on until 1941, i.e. Until the moment from which the story began in the "Blockade Chapters".

Criteria In a survey on the ratio of pops (modern variety of folklore) and the so -called high culture - one of the most puzzling and hardly permitted. Tango made the path from the Argentine tavern to the music of Piazzol, rock from the Liverpool pub to the hall of the Moscow Conservatory, where Gradsky and the Valley, accompanied by Ortstra Svetlanov, were sung by fellow Beatles. It would seem that everything can be described and the formula can be derived, but ...

Bykov-quickly: look-61 Dmitry Bykov Publication date: December 16, 2003 Philosophical letters Letter one 1. After assessing the political situation, it’s time to move on to some generalizations that will help us finally change the paradigm of talking about the Russian path and Russian prospects. It’s not often that a person sees such clear confirmation of his own speculations, as happened to me recently.

New presidential consensus Alexander Myachin Publication date: December 16, 2003 The triumph of traditionalism The overwhelming majority of the media and experts recognized the results of the Duma elections as sensational. One of the most common explanations for what happened, especially loved by the communists, was the reference to the factor of foul play, even accusing the authorities of outright fraud and falsification.

An open letter to the winners and losers A.I. Zhuravleva Publication date: December 16, 2003 Who am I? Not a politician, not a political scientist. I am the population. Speaking pathetically - the people. Just not in the sacred-mythological sense of the word in which politicians operate. I use this word a) with full awareness of my own (as well as Mr. Zhirinovsky, Mr. Chubais, and even - alas! - Mr.

Book selections. Round three Publication date: December 16, 2003 We continue to publish answers to questions about the current state of non-fiction literature. The first and second rounds of the survey can be viewed here and here . We remind you that the questions are the following: 1. What nonfiction books have you bought and read recently? Please give them a brief description. 2. Which non-fiction books published in Russia in recent years do you consider the most important and notable and why?