This issue publishes: “Przepraszam” — a documentary story by Anatoly Druzenko, a journalist, from the period of the Polish Solidarność; “The Smoke”, a story by Anton Utkin, and a “new year tale” by Dmitry Shevarov “Sanechka”. Also in this issue: stories by Yevgeny Shklovsky and “The Lonely Sail of Ostap Bender” — Sergey Belyakov’s free study on the possible prototype of the personage of the famous novels by Ilf and Petrov. The poetry section is made up of the new poems by Olga Yermolayeva, Leonid Filanovsky and a publication of poems by Aleksander Soprovsky to commemorate the 15th anniversary of his death.

The sectional offerings are as follows:

Philosophy, History, Politics: “The Society and the Power in Russia — History and the Present Time”, an article by Valery Senderov.

Essais: “Pushkin in America”, a drama fantasy by Gleb Shulpyakov, and an essay by Igor Klekh “Love Suspected” — a new interpretation of “Anna Karenina”.

Comments: “Will to Live and Will to Die” by Alla Latynina on the new book by Rubйn Gonzбlez Gallego.