Rybkin: a mirror of our democracy Vladimir Sokolenko Publication date: February 17, 2004 Introduction: instantly - in the sea There are actually few interpretations of what happened to Ivan Petrovich: two or three. We will not get to the truth: when the stakes are too high, the truth ceases to exist, only versions remain. Happy is the USA, where such raising of rates occurs only when the president is assassinated (who killed Kennedy?).

Exercises under the lantern Alexander Khramchikhin Publication date: February 17, 2004 Strategic nuclear forces today remain the only factor allowing us to consider Russia a great power, and the only more or less successfully functioning component of the Armed Forces. The fact that these forces remained generally combat-ready is explained by a number of factors.

Sum of technology Why are water parks collapsing? Alexey Chadayev Publication date: February 17, 2004 On May 20 , 1474, the almost completed Assumption Cathedral, planned by Ivan III as the largest in the country, collapsed in the Kremlin. After this, the authors of the project, the Pskov masters Krivtsov and Myshkin, were removed from construction, and the architect Fioravanti, the author of the Assumption Cathedral, which stands in the Kremlin to this day, was summoned to Moscow.

Zoo-Jazz It is customary to speak about Sergei Letov in riddles. It is customary to retell legends about how bandits kidnapped him as a child and raced with him across the steppe, and also about how seven Tibetan butterflies once flew onto his flute at once. Letov wearily waves it off: there were no butterflies. But no myth-making arises on its own, without compelling reasons. Letov is such a person that a trivial story about him simply won’t work out.

Skirmish at Belokurikha Irina Samakhova Publication date: February 17, 2004 This economic forum, informally called “Altai Davos,” was held for the fourth time at the mountain resort of Belokurikha. The initiators - State Duma deputy Vladimir Ryzhkov and the German Naumann Foundation - manage to gather a very respectable company of expert economists, politicians and entrepreneurs in Altai every year in February.

...For someone who speaks Russian, living in Cologne is the same as living somewhere in Zaporozhye Interview with Ivan Davydov Dear reader! You can enter into a debate with the author of this article, write about it, which will be published on this page. Parshchikov WAS a genius. Indeed, it was. Unfortunately, it was. He died during his lifetime as a poet and, apparently, simply as a person.

Let me tell you about our new cartoons. It sounds strange, since cartoons should be shown, not described. But since viewers have almost no hope of seeing new domestic animation, fans of this genre have to be content with the stories of those who have seen it (strongly reminiscent of hunting stories) for many years. And then, you see, you accidentally come across some cartoon on video or in a report about the winners of Western festivals, and the name will come to mind.

Darwin's Prodigal Grandson Igor Jadan Publication date: February 17, 2004 The press conference of Sergei Glazyev at the Interfax press club took place, contrary to expectations, in a calm, relaxed atmosphere. Glazyev complained about “a group of athletes” who tried to seize power in his party.

Spectacular, but - let's say softly - very “approximate” phrase Gertrude Stein about the lost generation became in the past century a almost universal master line in the analysis of books, the authors of which, according to critics, "military experience broke from the normal course of life." Especially impressive here is "normal." I’m afraid that this is how most readers will read Oleg Ermakov’s story “ Return to Kandahar ”.

Rybkin: walking through torment Alexey Nevzorov Publication date: February 17, 2004 The mysterious disappearance and subsequent sudden appearance of Russian presidential candidate Ivan Rybkin made all rational explanations for his disappearance null and void. The press conference of Ivan Petrovich himself only deepened the feeling of the improbability of the adventures that took place in the mystical “post-Soviet space” with the sober politician Rybkin.

Let me tell you about our new cartoons. It sounds strange, because cartoons must be shown, not described them. But since the audience has almost no hope of seeing the new domestic animation, fans of this genre who have to be content with stories of those who saw (strongly reminiscent of hunting stories) for a year. And there, you see, there will accidently come across some cartoon on the video or in the report of the winners of the Western festivals - the name will be remembered.

In the story of the investigation into the Transvaal disaster, several details that escaped or were deliberately hidden attract attention. Deprivation of the licenses of an architect, designer, or builder means only one thing: three subjects of the process are potentially suspects. At the same time, two other subjects - the owner and author of the documentation (i.e., city officials) completely fall out of sight. The latter, apparently, are connected with the interests of Yu. Luzhkov.

Lord of the Ring Egor Kholmogorov Publication date: February 17, 2004 There is something fatal in the fact that the moments of Putin’s contact with military power suspiciously coincide with the next high-profile and depressogenic catastrophes.

News from the future, it is also from the past Oleg Ermakov. Return to Kandahar. - "New World", #2 Sergey Kostyrko Publication date: February 17, 2004 Stein 's effective, but - to put it mildly - very "approximate" phrase Gertrude about the lost generation has become in the last century almost a universal master key when analyzing books whose authors, as critics claim, "were forced out of the normal course of life by war experience." Particularly impressive here is the “normal” one.

I do not understand the special interest in the work of Mr. Popov that has been disseminated recently. The claims and accusations formulated in its text (since I cannot consider conspiracy theories to be research) were made against human rights activists back in Soviet times.