The absence of some objects in some spaces helps to see native places more clearly. For example, there is a sculptor Richard Serra. In July-September 2007, an exhibition of his work was at the Museum of Modern Art in New York . They will never bring him to Moscow. For different reasons. Serra has been making abstract steel sculptures since the 60s, taking on increasingly distinct cyclopean proportions with each passing decade.

Since the beginning of 2008, the theme of a possible improvement of bilateral Russian-Georgian relations was again in the focus of attention of journalists and experts. The reason for this was the statements of the newly elected President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili. First, immediately after the end of the voting procedure, on January 5, 2008, he outlined the normalization of Russian-Georgian relations as one of his main foreign policy priorities.

"Russian Journal": In your opinion, that was the most important factor in the victory of the Pro -Putin youth movements in confrontation with the youth movements of other ideological orientations? Financial resource, socially mundane ideas, ideological attractiveness, president's rating? Pavel Tarakanov: There was no confrontation between youth movements. Microscopic "yes", "we" and the like cannot be compared with the movement "ours". Too different level.

Martin Denke. Paphos, expression and movement: to the aesthetics of Weimar classicism 1796-1806. - Berlin: Publishing House of Walter de Groter, 2006. - 430 p., Ill. 108 euros. Martin Donike. Pathos, Ausdruck und Bewegung: Zur Asthetik des Weimarer Klassizimus 1796-1806. - Berlin: Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2006. - 430 S., ABB., GEB. 108 Euro. What repels in life is often of interest in art.

When the Bulgarian chess genius Veselin Topalov began to calculate how many times the world champion Kramnik went to the toilet during the match, this seemed disgusting to everyone. When I found out about this fact, it came to my mind: chess dies. Sport dies - in its previous meaning. Meanwhile, in 1972, Bobby Fisher’s behavior before the match in Reykjavik did not seem disgusting to anyone.

The plot about the closure of the branches of the British Council is a plot about the limits of "soft power". The idea of ​​autonomous cultural expansion systems is very typical of Western European consciousness. The external legend of this idea is that culture is a specific variety of an intangible good, and having a distinctly sacred hue.

Gotsman vs. Schwartzman The past year was rich in events. Among them, not the last place belonged to the clashes of political elephants and the political mosek, who attracted the fair attention of the public, which produced a loud noise and gave rise to a reasonable doubt among the multimillion -dollar viewer: "Once they bark at the elephant, to know - strong!" But the noise and dust subsided.

The absence of some objects in some spaces helps to see the native areas more clearly. Here, for example, there is a sculptor Richard Serra in the world. In July-September 2007 , the exhibition of his works was at the Museum of Contemporary Art in New York . He will never be brought to Moscow. For various reasons. Serra has been making abstract sculptures from steel since the 60s, taking more and more distinct cyclopic dimensions every decade.