Bulls-quickly: look-70 Dmitry Bykov Publication date: December 29, 2004 Living beyond your means At first the name was different - “Dictatorship of Mediocrity”. But then I thought - why quarrel with essentially good people? I rarely quarreled with them... After all, the word “mediocrity” has long become offensive, almost offensive. What's so offensive about it? Well, a person wants to live within his means, so he writes and speaks accordingly. What's special?

In the second half of December, all publications as undermined rush to take the results of the year. You might think that something depends on this. That this can be changed. In the end, what year, let at least December finish! But for some reason, while the idea of ​​how to summarize the year is spinning in my head, all the last performances of December seem symbolic for this 2004. Here is the main event of the second half of December: the tour of the Vuppers dance theater Pina Baush.

The last column of the year is the final. And of course, I had to write in it something about the Ukrainian elections, something about the appointments of governors, something about the abolition of benefits and at the end somehow kick Putin. For example, for the fact that at the December press conference (also the final one) he did not say a single word about Beslan. Maybe it would be worth doing.

The presidential elections in Ukraine once again revealed a long-known fact: this state, as an artificially created one, does not represent integrity either in linguistic, religious, historical, cultural or economic aspects. This was manifested in its division based on voting results into “Ukraine” and “Yakraina”, and in fundamental differences in the geopolitical preferences of local elites.

Funerals, National Bolsheviks and a washing machine Oleg Kashin Publication date: December 29, 2004 The last column of the year is the final one. And I, of course, had to write in it something about the Ukrainian elections, something about the appointments of governors, something about the abolition of benefits, and at the end somehow kick Putin. For example, because at the December press conference (also the final one) he did not say a single word about Beslan.

One we write, two in mind Losses-2004: martyrology of RJ Publication date: December 29, 2004 Dmitry Bak , literary critic This year, a man who meant infinitely much to me personally passed away, although the public role of Galina Andreevna Belaya was great. During all events that had some social significance, and during various personal misfortunes, I picked up the phone and dialed her number.

I have Live for the Last Month with the Sense of Having Suffered and Indefinite Loss. I DID not Know At First What Ailed. At Last It OcCurred to MET What I HAD Lost Was A Country. Henry David Thoreau . Slavery in Massachusetts (1854) Popures of the Russian classic, we can say that not only the victory from the defeat, but also the acquisition of loss is not given to distinguish. Only then and, most often, the awareness of the true meaning of what happened does not soon come.

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"Under-Ukrainians" or new people? Alternatives to self-determination of the South-East of Ukraine Oleg Nemensky Publication date: December 29, 2004 The presidential elections in Ukraine once again revealed a long-known fact: this state, as an artificially created one, does not represent integrity either in linguistic, religious, historical, cultural or economic aspects.

Symbolic premieres Dina Goder Publication date: December 29, 2004 In the second half of December, all publications rush to sum up the results of the year as if they had been undermined. You might think that something depends on this. That this could change something. After all, what a year, let’s at least finish December! But for some reason, while the thought of how to sum up the year is spinning in my head, all the last performances of December seem symbolic for this very year of 2004.

Voice and phenomenon Igor Loschilov Publication date: December 29, 2004 The leap year is ending. Ten days before it began, in December 2003, poetry suffered an irreparable loss, the bitterness of which was felt all year: the poet Dmitry Avaliani died... A leap year is supposed to be difficult, it just so happens - this, alas, was confirmed this time. Sergei Averintsev, Galina Belaya, very fresh, December loss - Vladimir Bibikhin...

Full allowance Grigory Amelin Publication date: December 29, 2004 A publishing house like “ Languages ​​of Slavic Culture ”, in its strategies and long-term plans, is strongly and unfairly limited by funds (the same RGNF ) that support some projects and, therefore, do not support others. Hence the involuntary nature of the final result.

I have lived for the last month with the sense of having suffered a vast and indefinite loss. I did not know at first what ailed. At last it occurred to me that what I had lost was a country. Henry David Thoreau . Slavery in Massachusetts (1854) To paraphrase the Russian classic, we can say that we are not able to distinguish not only victory from defeat, but also gain from loss . Only later and, most often, not soon does the realization of the true meaning of what happened come.

Jingle Bells and Good Augurs Nikita Alekseev Publication date: December 29, 2004 There is an entertaining passage in the wonderful book by Raymond Flynn and Robin Moore, “ The Accidental Dad ,” which I have already mentioned several times. The family of the newly elected American Pope Peter II comes to Rome before Christmas and is surprised. How can it be that the city seems to be Catholic, but with preparations for the main Catholic holiday things are rather bad, not like in America?

Ten feelings of one year Andrey Levkin Publication date: December 29, 2004 There was too much crammed into this year, but until April inclusive, the past was being overcome (experiences after the Duma elections, Kasyanov’s resignation, presidential elections), so the real reconstruction of the political science clearing began around May, around the time of Putin’s speech to the Federal Assembly: second term, in in general, matured.