On October 13, Princeton economist Paul Krugman won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics. The ambiguity of the reaction to this event corresponds to the ambiguity of Krugman’s personality and the public image that he carefully created for himself over many years. Reading some media headlines, an uninterested reader might conclude that Nobel Prizes are now awarded for columns in The New York Times.

Glen O'Brien, Thomas Misgang, Wolfgang Müller, John Saweij. Punk. There are no innocent (Glen O`brien, Thomas Miesgang, Wolfgang Muller, Jon Savage Punk. No One is Innocent. Herausgeber, Kunsthalle Wien, Caam Cranaria. 2008) Iroquois, a leather jacket, droven with thorns, on the feet of Stillla, they are also a gringers, in the ears - headphones with strange music ... how massive ideas about the punk are true, tries to figure out the album, dedicated to the exhibition in the Vienna Kunsthalla.

Speaking about barriers in relations between Russia and Ukraine, first of all, it is necessary to note the mentality of Ukrainians. Historically, Ukraine has never been an independent state. The long stay of the Ukrainian lands consisting of different states (Principality of Lithuania, the Commonwealth, Austria -Hungary, Ottoman and Russian Empires), as well as a stubborn struggle for independence, gave rise to a kind of mentality - & laquo; to survive, it is necessary to adapt & raquo;.

In 1978, I was asked to write "Memories" about the art of a practical joke in Russia, warning that the text should be "extremely simple, entertaining and not closed by excessive thoughts." And although the instructions were made, the article was not printed. Before you get acquainted with it, it is necessary to make what the ban was imposed on in 1978, namely, to express several "excessive" considerations related to the prospect of the assimilation of laughter in the discourse zone.

This biography causes a feeling of envy. Childhood in the south of France and Nigeria, a bilingual family (English and French, but maternal French), life on traveling between Thailand and Mexico, Panama and islands in the Indian Ocean. Teaching in Boston, Mexico City, Bristol and London. The dissertation on the myths of the Indians of Central America. And most importantly - a writer with such a successful biography that there is no better.