Senate or Boyar Duma? What will the Federation Council be like? Yaroslav Butakov Publication date: December 3, 2004 Since the inception of the Federation Council, the method of its formation has changed more often than that of the US Senate in more than 200 years. To begin with, the Federation Council appeared in the USSR under Gorbachev. Then a body with the same name arose in the independent Russian Federation.

Life has become more fun Interview with Russian Journal and the expert network Kremlin.org Gleb Pavlovsky Publication date: December 9, 2004 RJ: You visited the Non-fiction book fair. What do you think was interesting there? G.P.: There are more books. The stands where books are displayed are annoying. You look through it, reach into your pocket to pay, but no, they say: ours are not for sale, they are not like that. There are quite a lot of them.

"Orange Revolution" as a mirror for Russia Positional analysis of the Russian information field Publication date: December 3, 2004 The Ukrainian “orange revolution” has been the center of attention of all world and Russian media for two weeks now. The time has come for the first generalizations on information support of the situation.

Along the fair. Day three The international fair of intellectual literature non/fiction #6 continues Mikhail Edelshtein, Egor Otroshchenko, Gennady Seryshev Publication date: December 3, 2004 On the third day of non/fiction there were significantly more people in the pavilions of the Central House of Artists than on Wednesday-Thursday. There were also more books - publications arrived from printing houses that were not ready for the start of the fair.

Bare loess Vladimir Malyavin Publication date: December 3, 2004 I had the opportunity to travel with a group of compatriots to any region of China, and without hesitation I chose the southern part of Shanxi province: the eastern part of the Loess Plateau, surrounded by the Yellow River.

Garden of Demons - HORTUS DAEMONUM: Dictionary of Infernal Mythology of the Middle Ages and Renaissance Dear reader! You can enter into a debate with the author of this article, write about it, which will be published on this page. I have this book. And I want to say that it is relatively good. The leaves are not yellow. Interesting selection of illustrations.

Festival of Obedience Roman Leibov Publication date: December 6, 2004 Andrey Madison Topic I ’ll start with a quote, without any embellishment. " The poems of the Armavir poetess are included in the literary encyclopedia Armavir has long been familiar with the work of the poetess Nadezhda Demidova, whose long-awaited dream came true. A book, or rather a literary encyclopedia, “The Soul of Russia” has been published, in which the intellectual works of poets collected over fifteen centuries.

The Duma dedicated to the lifting: the law on the abolition of the election of governors was adopted in the third and final reading. Now the law will be signed by the President, and he will enter into force - in this sense, the reform of the Federation can be considered completed. However, in reality, the indicated reform is not even begun. Because not one, probably, a person in Russia knows where exactly the same presidential appointment will come from and who it will be.

Here was the opportunity to go with a group of compatriots to any area of ​​China, and I, without hesitation, chose the southern part of Shanxi's province: the eastern part of a loan plateau, encouraged by a yellow river. The place is the deepest, stagnant, filled with the "aroma of antiquity", far from the sparkling windows of "new China". It plunges Chinese intellectuals into hopeless sadness (I mean the sensational television series "River Sorrow" in the late 80s).

Return Alexey Chadayev Publication date: December 3, 2004 The Duma made its signal: the law abolishing the election of governors was adopted in the third and final reading. Now the president will sign the law and it will come into force - in this sense, the reform of the federation can be considered completed. However, in reality, the said reform has not even begun yet.

From the moment the Federation Council arises, the method of its formation has changed more often than that of the US Senate over 200 years. To start with the fact that the Federation Council appeared in the USSR under Gorbachev. Then the body with the same name arose in an independent Russian Federation. In its current status, as the upper house of the Federal Assembly, the Federation Council functions after the adoption of the Russian Constitution in December 1993.

Back in the second half of the 1990s, when the St. Petersburg House of Books did not even think about the fact that it would ever leave the Singer building with a globe on top of its head, unusual books appeared in its literary and art department - exquisite, on thick paper and extremely expensive. That's how it seemed then. And these were not gift classics reprinted for the hundredth time, but books by D. Prigov, L. Rubinstein, T. Kibirov, L. Girshovich and O.