The initiative to give the presidents of the republics new positions indicates a kind of trend. Not in relation to the general power desire for unification - this is not new - but in relation to the suddenly awakened passion for renaming.

Starting a conversation about the new film by Roman Polansky “Ghost”, first of all, I want to scold our distributors. How many films can be distorted? Moreover, there are already a huge number of all kinds of ghosts: the “ghosts” of 1990 and 2009 and even the Soviet “ghost” of 1991. What did our distributors not like the “ghost-writer”? They probably fear that our highly intellectual viewer will not go to the “writer” ... We continue to cheat. But no longer distributors.

The new bill on the police did not impress the continuation of the reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and initiatives of 2009. If earlier it was about institutional reforms, then the summer bill is purely legal. In it, in general, issues are considered that are not interesting to anyone but lawyers. To expand powers, narrow the authority - the introduction of numerous boring amendments to the current police law. Just everything. There is nothing more there.

The last summer of Flimma The figure of an quartermaster is the key to the festival life. The quartermaster determines the program, selects the performers, gives installation interviews and is the face of the festival. In recent years with quartermaster in Salzburg - a continuous leapfrog. They go ahead of time. One was tired of the celebration of the 250th anniversary of Mozart, the other received an offer, which could not refuse ...

The twentieth century gave us a lot of various discoveries and innovations, without which modern life cannot be represented. And over the past hundred years, these wonderful inventions have gained more than in the entire long history of mankind. But the most striking event of the twentieth century is not connected with new technologies or theoretical constructions.

Not so long ago, on August 22, it turned twenty years old “Echo of Moscow”, one of the most famous radio stations in Russia. This is a very successful reason to discuss the phenomenon of Echo itself. And I, as a once -devastated listener, cannot but share my emotional and very subjective considerations regarding this phenomenon. I remember that I listened to the Echo of Moscow since the end of the 1990s.