The author is a popular political commentator, winner of a number of journalism awards, has been working for Izvestia for the last few years, and is familiar to most people from his comments on the Odnako program. Although the title says ‘the Rhine is wonderful’, the book will focus on ‘Russian topics’ – after all, what else can Russians talk about when they meet by chance on the banks of a...

Tom 3: Tsentral'nye gosudarstvennye uchrezhdeniia

The book by philosopher and historian N.A. Benediktov discusses the system of values of the Russian people. In addition to general ideas about Russian shrines, it describes key periods in the formation of the people. Without knowledge of national life-meaningful values, it is impossible to govern the country, which the current leaders of Russia seem to be unaware of.

Nina Serpinskaya's ‘Flirting with Life’ is a personal document that captures the daily life of the bourgeoisie and intelligentsia of the Silver Age. The author, embodying the image of a ‘starlet’ of the Moscow bohemia of the early 20th century, describes her life in art and everyday life. Her observations on the socialist transformations after the revolution are particularly interesting. The...

The dictionary contains about 16 thousand words and over 4 thousand phraseological units. The author has been collecting reduced colloquial vocabulary from literary and oral materials for many years, thus creating a unique dictionary that enriches Russian lexicography. The dictionary is intended for all those interested in the development of their native language, as well as for linguists,...

In an epic trilogy, Philip Pullman unlocks the door to a world parallel to our own, but with a mysterious slant all its own. D?mons and winged creatures live side by side with humans, and a mysterious entity called Dust just might have the power to unite the universes--if it isn't destroyed first. Here, the three paperback titles in Pullman's heroic fantasy series are united in one dazzling...