There is no need to list the forms characteristic of the post -Soviet period and methods of instrumenting political utterance, breeding the statement and acting actually. All of them are known under the general name of "political technology." The “camps” and “parties” were destroyed, denigrated, surrounded by spoilers and negative doubles, simply hidden and censored. The reaction to this was total cynicism. But the displacement of discursive policy also gave rise to a request for "authenticity".

On trips to the old Russian cities, recently you think more and less about the former, more and more about the unfulfilled. It is better to leave the former to those who connected their life practices with him: who are used to confessing the old stones, to listen to the symphony of leisurely urban life, to fall to the beauty of nature. Believe me, this is not for me - these mystical delights are too low, replacing for some and the truth of everyday life and religious or public life.

The main thing that is connected in the minds of the Russian reader with Dmitry Nabokov is, of course, a long -term, dramatic and strange story with the publication of Laura's drafts. Neither his translations of paternal novels, nor general literary and led activities of DM. Nabokov is not known so widely and do not cause so much debate and accusations. Let me remind you briefly: in 1975-1977, the writer works on a new novel.

From the editorial office. Maria Markova is one of the best modern Russian poets. Lives in Vologda, raises his daughter. Published in the Literary Newspaper, the magazines "Banner", "Friendship of Peoples", "Siberian Lights". Laureate and diploma of various prizes in the field of literature. The correspondent of the “Russian magazine” Alexei Ustinov visited Vologda and met with the poetess.

The main idea of ​​the last Pelevine novel Snuff is: “In modern conditions, the victory is not the one who is stronger, but the one who has a cooler” - this means a television picture. The fact that this idea is in the Kremlin of the dominant does not have to doubt: as eyewitnesses who have visited a pro -government rally in Luzhniki testify, no one cares, in essence, even the sincerity of the extras - it only needs a form, a set captured for a “picture”. Patriotic action "August.

Introduction to a conversation with writer Zachar Prilepin. A year and a half ago, Yuri Saprykin told me : "It is now clear that the point is not in the orange revolutions, but in general it is already not clear what-in some kind of hole, in a black hole, from which, God forbid, something will climb into something." Moreover, he said this about the Perm and Far Eastern partisans.