Novelist, literary critic, winner of the Big Book Prize Roman Senchin spoke about how the Russian book market works, about his literary path and how young authors today can win an audience. — Roman, how could you characterize the modern book market in Russia? — The market is quite rich. There is, in general, everything your heart desires. True, not throughout Russia - books of modern prose and poetry, serious works on history, even in regional centers, are received sparingly.

In an album of old photographs on paper, a boy with very bright, gray eyes looked at him, they were so bright that they seemed blue. His blond hair fell almost to his shoulders, and his soft facial features made him look a little more than a girl. He will turn the page and will already see a young man who did not allow anyone to doubt his masculine nature, at least with the seriousness of his gaze, feigned, funny, but still serious.

Freedom of speech in the usual sense implies the absence of censorship and prohibitions on the expression of ideas. But almost nothing is said about the fact that freedom of speech also implies the possibility of expressing ideas. There is no absolute freedom of speech anywhere. Any society has its freedoms and its restrictions. A common myth claims that freedom of speech in its ideal form exists in the West.

The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art has released the book “Kholin and Sapgir Rejoicing” about the legendary representatives of the Soviet poetic underground - a collage compiled by artist Viktor Pivovarov from numerous memories, photographs and drawings. We publish some of its fragments. Igor Kholin and Genrikh Sapgir are among the leading representatives of the unofficial literary scene of the 1960s and 70s.

Concept of ideology What is ideology? There are almost no scientific works on ideology. This concept has become manipulative. Therefore, we are faced with the task of scientific analysis of the concept of “ideology”. After this, we will move on to consider the main elements of the new post-Soviet ideologies, touching on the issue of Westernist ideology (the ideological sphere of Western countries). In the broadest sense, ideology and worldview are one and the same thing.