Опубликовано в журнале Дружба Народов, номер 1, 2005
RADA POLISCHUK. Stories from Odessa, or Incoherent Alphabet of the Memory.
A confession-narration of a woman who suddenly realized that the history of her family is her own life-story.
ELENA KHOLMOGOROVA. Signs of Life.
A chain of novellas which at first sight may be taken as autobiographical. But it is no mere chance that it has a subtitle — “Variations”.
Poems by DMITRY GRIGORIEV are always unpredictable. They have a breath of youthful freshness in them and at the same time are full of deep disappointment in many dull and drear aspects of the surroundings, but above all — of longing for everything which is unexpectedly new.
ALEXANDER MELIKHOV. Farewell to the Theme.
It’s a dramatic narration about the children who have survived the Leningrad blockade. Confessions of the survivers who endured inhuman trials assemble with the author’s meditations upon the good and the evil, upon our contemporaries’ views on what an exploit is.
EMIL PAIN. Xenophobia — Extremism — Terrorism. Before and after Beslan.
The famous politologist answers the questions of our correspondent on such notorious problems as spreading of xenophobia, manipulating of political extremism and varieties of terrorism in the world and in Russia as well as on the ways of struggling against these dangerous phenomena.