OK, thank you Sergey Kuznetsov Dear reader! You can enter into a debate with the author of this article, write about it, which will be published on this page. The kettle was not necessarily tied to the backpack, otherwise it would be necessary to admit that every tourist relied on this device for boiling water. As for the rest, the origin of the second meaning of this word: “absurd newcomer” comes precisely from tourism.

I only know about this book that it is considered good and was in the Buker "long list". "The gut of any person" is a quote from Henry James; In English there is a more neutral word heart. This, of course, is not about whether the translator is right - should be right. After all, this is the “inner” man, his “heart and womb”, but to bring the vocabulary closer to the lifetime of Henry James, you can choose from the Russian vocabulary “gut”.

All I know about this book is that it is considered good and was on the Booker “long list.” "The guts of every man" - a quote from Henry James; in English there is a more neutral word “heart”. The point, of course, is not whether the translator is right - he must be right. This is the “inner” of a person, his “heart and womb,” but in order to bring the vocabulary closer to the time of Henry James’s life, you can choose “gut” from the Russian dictionary.

Give up our future! Andrey Kovalev Publication date: May 6, 2004 Somehow I don’t really like going to opening days due to the claustrophobia, agoraphobia and misanthropy that I developed from long critical activity. But this time I seem to have found myself in some kind of gap. Irina Korina’s installation, according to eyewitnesses, required my personal presence. The XL space was rebuilt so that I would have to crowd into a small enclosure with the vernissage party.

"Modern idyll"-2 Leonid Ruzov Publication date: May 11, 2004 Two of the most brilliant descriptions of Russian life during the reign of Alexander the Third were left to us by Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin. “The Modern Idyll,” written by him in 1977-1883, was read even a hundred years later as a brilliant vision.

Russians and Ukraine Roman Lazorenko Publication date: May 7, 2004 With the exception of the titular nation, the Russian community is the largest in Ukraine. Russians occupy the second largest place among the country's 130 ethnic groups. According to the latest All-Ukrainian Population Census of 2001, out of the 48 million population of the country, there were 8 million 334 thousand Russians.

Estonia and N region Maxim Artemyev Publication date: May 6, 2004 The ongoing expansion of the European Union, the entry into it of new states, including the former Soviet Baltic republics, and now the independent Baltic states, makes us think not only about the consequences of this process for Russia, but also about the opportunities it has missed.

To Adjara with love Publication date: May 6, 2004 According to Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania , the central authorities came to Adjara “for love.” The unexpectedly quick and radical solution to the Ajarian problem by the new president of Georgia, the completely unclear role of Russian diplomacy in this process, as well as the prospects of two other separatist enclaves - Abkhazia and South Ossetia - are in the center of attention of experts today.