Опубликовано в журнале Дружба Народов, номер 7, 2010
NICKOLAY VEREVOCHKIN. Mammoth’s Tooth. A novel.
Two doomed men met in a dead city and saving each other both have saved themselves. Because only he who is saving can be saved. To survive and to be saved is not the same when the soul is concerned. It’s difficult for a person who is saving another to destroy the human being in himself. Though our times dispose to that, temptation is strong, and many have succeeded.
KAZAT AKMATOV. Forgotten Frontier Post, or Thirteen Steps of Erica Klaus. A long short story.
Erica Klaus, a young volunteer from Norway, prompted by her best inducements went to the distant Kirghiz village of Chet to teach the local children English. Very soon it turned out that the customs prevailing here definitely differ from those she had accustomed to at home and in other places she had occasion to visit.
POETRY.
Asian poetical circle of this issue is ringing with high voices of three young women-poets: GUZAL BEGIM from Tashkent, AYGERIM TADGY from Almaty and ALTINAY DZUMANAZAROVA from Bishkek. They all, though very different, belong to the same generation and are published in “DN” for the first time.
ALEXANDER DJUMAEV. “In My Dogma Both True Believer and Unbeliever Are Equal”.
After the disintegration of the USSR everything is still vibrating and balancing at the post-Soviet territory. Will our peoples and cultures draw together again at a new turn of development or will Russia “cling” to the USA and Europe and we will go (or rather will be led away) to the East — to Afganistan, Iran and Pakistan? Or maybe a multipolar picture with different vectors of movements and kind feelings will win? This is the subject of thinking of the author – the well-known scholar from Tashkent A. Djumaev.
SAODAT and MUZAFFAR OLIMOVS. Migrants in the Zone of Crisis.
One tenth of Tadjikistan’s population is now working in Russia. This article gives a wide panorama of the life of Tadjik gastarbeiters, of their fight for the work and earnings in the situation of the first really deep capitalist crisis in the post-soviet countries.