Leap Chronicle Valery Hiltunen Publication date: March 1, 2004 For those who are born once every four years, namely on February 29, it is more appropriate to live away from Russia - where there are still wild tribes who dance at funerals: freedom, la, freedom, another lucky one has suffered to the envy of those who will continue smoke the vault of heaven with tobacco smoke...

News is a culturally determined category . This has been proven by research carried out in two traditional directions. The first of these, the social history of the press, identified the institutional and technological factors that have defined the concept of “news” over the past 200 years.

Have you prayed at night, Banderlogs? Vyacheslav Glazychev Publication date: March 1, 2004 And sometimes you will suddenly be drawn to an academic attitude towards reality. For example, Article 42 of the Moscow City Charter indicates cases in which the powers of the Moscow mayor are terminated early. Among these cases is death (may he live forever!).

Seine, etc. Issue 173 Review of current online events and publications Tatyana Danilova Publication date: March 1, 2004 From today, March 1, one wise man said: “In March, spring is a matter of faith.

News - a culturally determined category . This is proved by research works that were conducted in two traditional areas. The first of them - the social history of the press - revealed institutional and technological factors that determined the concept of "news" in the last 200 years.

Sometimes you suddenly feel the urge to take an academic approach to reality. For example, Article 42 of the Moscow City Charter indicates cases in which the powers of the Moscow mayor are terminated early. Among these cases is death (may he live forever!).

Island of Stability Konstantin Krylov Publication date: March 1, 2004 The repeated return to the topic of personnel revolution - I mean the round table in the Radio-1 press center - is doubly symptomatic. Firstly, the Russian expert community (which, in fact, is the only subject in our society that “discusses” anything at all) has reason to fear a personnel revolution in its own ranks - which, understandably, heightens interest in the issue.

No comments 15-28.02 Andrey Vasilevsky Publication date: March 1, 2004 Mikhail Leontyev . "The Union of Sword and Ploughshare." New united opposition for "Russia without Putin". - "Izvestia", 2004, # 33, February 25. “In Russia there is a huge demand for the revival of the country, its role, power, sense of national dignity. This is a demand for revenge. All sociologists note this, despite differences in assessments.

Doubt is (always) appropriate Andrey Vasilevsky Publication date: March 1, 2004 On Sunday, February 29, Vladimir Pozner began the “Times” program with the following words - I quote from memory: “twenty days have passed since the murder of the Tajik girl, the killers have still not been found, but few doubt that she was killed by young people calling themselves a non-Russian word “skinheads .” And he immediately moved on to the pressing issue of national-territorial entities in the Russian

Richard III and black PR Dina Goder Publication date: March 1, 2004 Few people remember “ Richard III ” so well that they can immediately quote anything other than: “A horse! Half a kingdom for a horse!” Therefore, when we hear from the stage of “ Satyricon ” a Shakespearean text that sounds unexpectedly topical, we even shudder: was it really there? And how did we not notice before?

First and last For the birthday of M.S. Gorbachev Sergey Markedonov Publication date: March 2, 2004 It is difficult to write about the first and last president of the Soviet Union objectively and impartially. Perhaps, it is unlikely to find a character among modern politicians who would simultaneously receive such different assessments - from the highest praise to derogatory blasphemy. At the same time, rarely does anyone write about Gorbachev in a calm “objectivist” vein.

Finnegan's Awakening Mikhail Vizel Publication date: March 1, 2004 At the very end of February, Henri Volokhonsky presented the “Wake of the Finnegans” to the public. This is exactly how, with a small letter, the poet and translator, musicologist and kabbalist Volokhonsky called his “experiments of fragmentary transcription in the Russian alphabet” (also his expression) of the famous novel by James Joyce for its unreadability and untranslatability.

Reading circles. Sixth Online and paper media about literature Egor Otroshchenko Publication date: March 1, 2004 The celebration of Men's Day distracted me somewhat from reading. We have to make up for lost time. Not so long ago, immediately after the announcement of the long list of applicants for the Russian National Literary Award " National Bestseller ", RJ published appeals to the venerable public, written by Linor Goralik and Sergei Kuznetsov .

Konstantin Latyshev and issues of capitalist construction Andrey Kovalev Publication date: March 1, 2004 The title of the exhibition “Conceptualism with a Human Face” by Konstantin Latyshev in the “Aidan Gallery” contains some subtle hint of heavy circumstances. To date, the term “conceptualism” is used by Father Alexander Shargunov and his altar servers . Latyshev was, in fact, initiated into conceptualism even in infancy, as part of the World Champions group.

Putin the writer Natalia Ivanova Publication date: March 1, 2004 What would the political scientists, who have become bored in recent months, do, what would the media, fading by spring, do, if not for the turn , or, literary speaking, the ups and downs set by Putin’s scenario - under the heading “Government - Resign”? How everyone, however, perked up! The eyes sparkled, the wrinkles straightened. We felt in demand. They put on ties of different shades of red to make the TV picture look better.