It happened, and it can’t happen again. The poet Alexei Parshchikov was brought to the surface of the literary process in the last minutes of Soviet power. When it was already possible to break out of the canon, and all the mechanisms for promoting poets were still in effect. In one second he became not just famous, but well-known. I remember very precisely this instant transfer from one state to another.

March began with a celebration of Kashpirovsky’s television phenomenon on the screen (on three channels), and ended with a filmmakers’ event in Gostiny Dvor. Mocking time. But against such a background, the eternal and the present emerge more clearly. Unconditional Zhvanetsky (“Russia”).

A wave of massacres sweeps across the United States Three massacres have occurred in America over the past three days. On Saturday, April 4, a 23-year-old man barricaded himself in his home and shot three police officers before being detained. On the same day, in a house in Graham in Pierce County, Washington, a 35-year-old unemployed father killed his five children, ranging in age from seven to 16, and was himself found dead.

Anastasia Volochkova was denied the right to compete for the post of mayor of Sochi On April 3, the Sochi Municipal Election Commission announced the final list of officially registered candidates for the post of mayor of Sochi.

The Brit got himself asked to reform the IMF Unambiguously positive assessments of the decisions taken at the London G20 summit on April 2 are expressed, perhaps, only by its direct participants, and even then not by all. The reason may be that the unpredictability of the development of the crisis makes the effect of G20 decisions unpredictable. Experts from the Higher School of Economics and the Development Center in the latest issue of the newsletter “Crisis. State.

US President calls for getting rid of nuclear weapons US President Barack Obama said yesterday that he would strive for a nuclear-free world and made it clear that he was counting on Russia's support. These statements by the American president were made during the informal EU-US summit in Prague last weekend. As part of the forum, Barack Obama made his first public speech to Europeans on Prague's Hradcany Square.

The government will discuss the industry's anti-crisis program A large anti-crisis meeting dedicated to the situation in the electric power industry will be held today by First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov. Officials will have to prepare the government's decision on how to develop power generation and whether to implement a plan to liberalize the market in the face of an economic downturn.

The non-parliamentary opposition expects the Prime Minister’s speech in the State Duma to be truthful and to take into account his proposals All week, State Duma deputies have been intensely preparing for today's meeting with the prime minister: they refreshed their memory of the most pressing problems of the Russian economy, and came up with questions for the report of the head of government.

The Russian Academy of Cinematographic Arts “Nika” awards were presented “Hipsters” by Valery Todorovsky, an elegant and nimble recent film premiere, having managed to join other applicants literally at the last moment, easily beat its rivals, as they say, “like a newcomer” and received “Nika” for the best film. The academicians gave "Hipsters" several more "technical" prizes, but the second most important, for directing, still preferred to give to Alexey German Jr.

The most impressive television event of the month is the unusual anniversary of Mikhail Zhvanetsky in the Tchaikovsky Hall. I don’t remember such a gathering of the intellectual elite: in the front row were Spivakov, and Demidova, and Churikova, and Tabakov... Instead of anniversary speeches, each congratulatory reader read to Mikhail Mikhailovich his favorite monologue that he had written.

BDT performance “Lady with a Dog” at the Golden Mask Anatoly Praudin staged not Chekhov’s “Lady with a Dog”, but a play by Natalya Skorokhod. This is not a dramatization - just a separate play, with a lot of new characters, with completely different intonations in the text. One might say - variations on a theme; one might say - fanfiction; but the authors swear allegiance to Anton Pavlovich - either they are disingenuous, or they themselves believe it.

Sergei Lavrov knew exactly when and where the DPRK satellite would not fly It is not yet entirely clear whether North Korea has managed to acquire an artificial Earth satellite. But the missile launch itself has already caused heated debate, since it was regarded by the United States and its allies as a test of ballistic weapons. Late yesterday evening Moscow time, the UN Security Council, at the request of Japan, met for emergency consultations.

Lawyers are unhappy with the “state fee” Underestimation of the work of lawyers and insufficient attention to the role that the defense attorney plays in criminal proceedings is one of the reasons for the insufficient “staffing” of this part of the Russian legal community, the consequence of which, in turn, is the low quality of criminal legal defense.

FOOTBALL. April 7-8. Champions League. Quarterfinals. First matches . April 9. UEFA Cup. Quarterfinals. First matches . Russian Championship. Premier League. 4th round. April 10. "Wings of the Soviets" - "Khimki". April 11. "Kuban" - "Tom", "Moscow" - "Spartak", "Dynamo" M - "Rostov", "Terek" - "Rubin". April 12. CSKA - Lokomotiv, Zenit - Amkar, Spartak-Nalchik - Saturn.

The main attention in March was attracted by two events broadcast live, which in itself is quite unusual for our long-distilled TV, which works overwhelmingly in recordings.