Since ancient times, it is known that the historical era has been speaking through the lips of its political leader. The leader at the level of ideology expresses the spirit of the era for his people. The end of the 80s and 90s of the XX century passed for Russia under the sign of a cardinal reassessment of values, a change in formations. The first word in the new (post-perestroika) ideology of the 90s belonged to the first Russian president.

"Do you want something new? Tired of being an ordinary person? Feel like a hero of" Star Wars ", a purple-striped monster with tentacles! You can easily feel in China. Compume Labovaev is waiting for you!" The advertisement of "worldview", travels, the main goal of which would not to view a certain set of buildings of varying degrees of destruction, but a change in attitude towards yourself, travels in order to feel yourself someone else could look like.

Russian artist Varvara Shavrova lives in China, travels around the world, and opened her new exhibition “Borders” in the Rumyantsev mansion in St. Petersburg (in April it was already shown at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art , in a building on Ermolaevsky Lane). The impetus for its creation was maps of the Russian-Chinese border territories, drawn up by Americans at the end of the last century and bought by her on occasion in one of the London shops.

"Everything that is said, but not shown, does not reach the viewer." (Francois Trufffo, "Kinematograph on Hitchcock") "Say anything until it is It does not prevent you from correctly understanding the facts. Do not think, but look! " (Ludwig Wittgenstein) The film "Multijack" is staged on the basis of Victor Nekrasov's stories "Kira Georgievna" and "Highly Strange History". The plot material for the film was the first work, so we will contact it when talking about the film.

The death of B. Yeltsin and the appeal of V. Putin to the Federal Assembly the day after the state funeral of the first president - a coincidence that has symbolic significance. These events could not but cause strong emotions in many people in our country and abroad, for which both characters of the next historical drama of Russia, the eras they personally and the results of the reign cause diametrically opposite feelings. And as Lenin said, without emotions there is no human search for truth.

Last Thursday, a massive clash occurred in the industrial district of Stavropol. According to various sources, from 100 to 300 young people took part in it. Law enforcement agencies had to use a service weapon to stop unrest. "The quarter in the North -Western district of the city where the clash occurred was numb. At least a hundred people took part in the conflict, according to other sources, there were about three hundred violators. Employees of special units arrived at the place.

The centuries -old history of the Russian state taught subjects to a simple set of rules of behavior: you need to stay away from the authorities, not refuse to fulfill any of its orders, but only that can be fulfilled by a harsh punishment. And since it was impossible to punish for everything, the eternal severity of Russian laws was moderated by their frequent non -fulfillment.

Forbidden city. Treasures of Chinese emperors. - M.: IPC "Artist and Book", 2007. 180 p. The reason for the publication of this album book was the exhibition of the same name in the single-stage ward of the Patriarchal Palace in the Moscow Kremlin . Despite the well-known complexity of the perception of Chinese culture, caused not only by the difference in the aesthetic, but also by the very type of civilizations, the exhibition in a sense even delighted our press .