The Web Won't Topple Tyranny (published in abridged form) Translation by Nikolai Edelman Last spring, I walked into an Internet cafe in the capital of Laos, Vientiane, to see a bunch of fancy gadgets and a complete lack of what is usually associated with coffee shops: discussions of current events. The cafe's visitors didn't even communicate with each other.

New religious policy Sergei Lukashevsky Publication date: April 16, 2004 Recently , observers have been enthusiastically trying to understand what the vectors of presidential policy will be in the next four years. The sphere of relations with religious organizations is one of those areas of domestic policy where the position of the state has so far remained uncertain. The corresponding state concept was never adopted.

Magazine reading. Issue 166 "New World" #3, #4; "Banner" #3, #4; "Star" #1, #2; "October" #2. Inna Bulkina Publication date: April 6, 2004 This is the second “verse” issue of “Reading Reading”, it will be somewhere “feminine”, somewhere “infantile”, somewhere “St. Petersburg”. There will be no "Arion" (yet). Apparently, it will be ready by the beginning of summer. So, in the latest " New World " Evgeniy Rein's fantasies on the themes "Once again I visited...".

In the historical gap between Platonov of the thirties and Akunin of the nineties, only one Russian writer interests me truly. However, writers are secondly, below, then. Let the writers skeve little by little, guess that there are no better than other mortals, no more important. To be honest, I did not want to mention even this beloved. But then he reasoned that for the applied purposes of writers it was possible to use. Much more interesting than the writer is the doctor.

Where are the trade unions? Sergey Golikov Publication date: April 6, 2004 In Russia there is a dire need for organizations that protect the rights of employees. Workers are paid little, given humiliating “privileges” (like a slave on a plantation - a roof over his head, stew in a bowl), deprived of prospects (encouraged turnover, lack of a pension fund), and imposed enslaving working conditions.

Wasted work Maxim Momot Publication date: April 7, 2004 Judging by the TV news, we don't have trade unions. If they existed and worked, we would know about it. From the same news. This means that either they exist, but do not work, and there is simply nothing to report here, or they work, but are not reported for some reason. Judging by television news releases, there are no “legal” strikes in our country (not to mention a strike movement). If they really don’t exist, then why?

And Lexey Khvostenko left Russia more than twenty-five years ago. For the first fifteen years there was no talk of returning to their homeland. In the mid-nineties, Tail began to think. At the turn of the century, we were waiting for the promised joint concerts of " Auktsion " with Fedorov's old friend and co-author Khvost. Concerts were disrupted: stateless Khvostenko, living in Paris, was not given a Russian visa; Fedorov , alone, sang “Orlandina” in two voices as best he could.

Hunger 101 Practical gastroenterology reading Alexander Ageev Publication date: April 6, 2004 I woke up today, went out onto the balcony to smoke - and immediately remembered the classic: “Winter has passed, summer has come. Thanks to the party for this.” The main thing is that now you already know which party.

The fool himself Igor Mantsov Publication date: April 6, 2004 In the historical interval between Platonov of the thirties and Akunin of the nineties, only one Russian writer really interests me. However, writers secondly, below, then. Let the writers sober up little by little and realize that they are no better than other mortals, no more important. To be honest, I didn’t even want to mention this, my beloved. But then I decided that for applied purposes .

"Neoconservatism" as an ongoing "crisis of liberalism" Alexander Verkhovsky Publication date: April 16, 2004 The publication of Khodorkovsky's letter , for obvious reasons, did not provoke a heated debate on the thesis proposed in the letter about the “crisis of liberalism in Russia.” But the letter reminded everyone, who for some reason had forgotten, that such a topic is already being discussed all the time, although rather sluggishly.