Imagine a paradoxical situation. At a large rural festival, two venerable old men come to the people and say: “Thank God, our non -traveled was fastened. Maybe we’ll get granddaughter. ” Dad takes under the handle a great age daughter, red as a poppy color, and a smiling groom comes out from behind her. He persuaded the girl for a long time, and then, finally, he persuaded. Rejoice good people! Holiday on our street! Masha comes out for Vaska, wow!

A couple of days ago, a long-awaited movie was released in wide release - a new film by Hollywood master Michael Mann under the familiar title “Johnny D”. The ambiguous pathos of the title is that the role of Johnny Dillinger was played by Johnny Depp. Johnny's on-screen adversary was Agent Purvis, talentedly played by another Hollywood giant, Christian Bale. But the ambiguity is not limited to the name alone.

Review of: Boris Bernstein. Visual image and world of art. SPb: Petropolis, 2006. 200 p. * * * Are African ritual masks “less” with art than the Pusser of Duchan? In the modern world, where the line between art, everyday practice and philosophy has finally lost the impassability, the status of the term “art” is far from evidence. Boris Bernstein’s book is another attempt to put the art history “upside down” and re -determine the concept itself.

From the editorial office. The Russian Journal publishes the transcript of a public dispute between Valery Extreme and Jean-Luc Nancy, which took place on October 28, 2008 at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) and was dedicated to the problem of sacred in modern society. Initially, the discussion was published in the journal Pushkin. * * * Speech by Jean-Luka Nansi 1. It seems to us that we know what religious and sacred.

At the end of last year, the Parliamentary Gazeta reported a working meeting of the mayor of the city of Yaroslavl Viktor Volonchunas with the official delegation of the Russian Academy of Presidential Presidential Academy, headed by RAGS, Professor Vladimir Egorov.

Last year, a significant event occurred - the computer and video game market in terms of sales surpassed the DVD film market (32 game billion dollars against 29 at the film industry). Only the Activision -Blizzard Game publishing house earned 5 billion for a year, and its main competitor, Electronics Arts, sold 11 games of more than a million copies, and 3 games - a circulation of more than five million. This is a giant market.

The ratio of the principles of stability and development is dialectical: behind one stage, another sets in. If there is a stormy process of development, then it is necessary to stop and tighten the trains. But no need to delay stabilization, which can turn into stagnation. In the struggle for the change of stages, the struggle of political parties is traced. But sometimes, for example, it is useful to sit out in the opposition with a left one in order not to be responsible.

In the West, preparations have already begun for the August-September attack on Russia. It is, of course, about the ideological war, but it is no less important than battles on the battlefield. This August is 70 years old, the Soviet-German non-aggression agreement. In September, the world celebrates the tragic date of the beginning of World War II.