Михаил Магид

Recently, when asked if I considered my views to be left or right, I jokingly replied that today's leftists are those who support the right in every situation ... here I used an expression to denote people of a certain orientation. No sooner had I started talking about the right-wing, than my companion (interestingly enough, of right-wing persuasion) remarked,...

Why has cinema degraded along with industry and science? The liberal economist and publicist Konstantin Frumkin quotes and comments: "People of the older generation, when they praise Soviet films - which were about intellectuals and for intellectuals - say that such films 'enlightened' and 'raised to their level. Alexei Slapovsky: "The screen characters of those days were wiser, I would...