2011 for Pelevin, in a sense, the anniversary-exactly 20 years ago, in 1991, most stories were written that compiled the first collection of the writer Blue Lantern and made it a supernova star of the new literature. These piercing sad, elegant and paradoxical stories were devoted to the deaths of the old world and the no -improved of the existence in the world with a new, unformed, purged cosmic drafts.

This Russian fate is easy? Slipping out of the Kremlin hall, You have already penetrated everything, You are my vertical, vertical. Dmitry Bykov After the parliamentary elections and one hundred thousandth demonstrations of the opposition for “United Russia”, it became obvious that the change of power systems ruling in Russia was not only desirable, but also possible. Probably not next year, but, nevertheless, in the relatively near future.

It is terribly inconvenient to write about Vysotsky. The simplest thing is to give out the usual set of high -pair banalities. And you can lay it out into components and ... with horror to find a bad actor, a sloppy poem and, to put it mildly, a very strange artist. But the most bitter bread at the biographer. It is better for him to hang himself right away. For in his hands he is exclusively “empty breed”, slag. A well -fed childhood, “left” concerts, “clothes”, “foreign abroad”, bad habits.

From the editorial office. The Russian Journal is not the first time to turn to the topic of the university in the modern world: so, on our pages, the leading Russian medievalist Pavel Uvarov proved how stable the university’s influence of the university on political life, on the political position of the professor and graduate, are stable.

From the editorial office. The writer Oleg Ermakov , the author of the books “The sign of the Beast”, “Return to the Kandahar”, wrote an essay for the “Russian magazine” dedicated to the Russian landscape and the events of 1812 near Smolensk. * * * "... we see little, we know" Bunin From the train window, a hill with a crest of poplars and pines, locking an impressive valley along which a narrow rivulet of College, has long noted from the train window.

Alexander Goldfarb, the historian and co -author of A. Lithinenko, poisoned in London, stated that “standing on the swamp” under certain conditions could develop into a revolution, since the change of regime does not occur according to the constitutional procedure, but as a result of street protests. Professor Artemy Magun, a status of RSA, echoes him, giving the phenomenon a characteristic of the Miro-Grazhdan uprising, actually “smeared” almost throughout the post-communist period.