This issue publishes stories: “The Nymph” and “The Old People and the White House” by Vladimir Makanin, “The Search” by Sergey Soloukh, “Vampire” by Boris Yevseyev, “The Argun” by Arkady Babchenko “The Limestone” by Aleksandr Ilichevsky, “Kaspar’s White Brother” by Oleg Zobern. Also “Alphavita”, “book of correspondences” by Andrey Volos (continued). The poetry section of this issue is made up of the new poems by Maksim Amelin, Anna Pavlovskaya, Dmitry Sarabyanov, Marina Georgadze and Mikhail Buznik.

The sectional offerings are as follows:

Philosophy, History, Politics: “Against Everyone”, an article by Andrey Stolyarov dwelling on the impact of global networks development over national states.

Essais: “Fifteen Moments of Winter” an essay by Dmitry Bavilsky in which the author is sharing on his experience of hearing through all the symphonies by Dmitry Shostakovich.

Literary Critique: “Notes on the Margins of Batyushkov’s Poems”, an article by the poet Aleksandr Kushner.