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| Ustinovskaya, Yekaterina |
| Óæå 22 ãîäà... |
| 24/10/24 13:38 more... |
| author Àíîíèì |
| Kurbatova, Christina |
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Äåòêè Ìèëûå, õîðîøèå íàøè äåòêè!!! Òàê ïðîñòî íå äîëæíî áûòü, ýòî áîëüíî, ýòî íå÷åñòíî, ýòî óæàñíî. |
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| author Îëüãà |
| Grishin, Alexey |
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Ïàìÿòè Àëåêñåÿ Äìèòðèåâè÷à Ãðèøèíà Ñâåòëàÿ ïàìÿòü ïðåêðàñíîìó ÷åëîâåêó! Ìû ðàáîòàëè â ÃÌÏÑ, òîãäà îí áûë ìîëîäûì íà÷àëüíèêîì îòäåëà ìåòàëëîâ, ïîäàþùèì áîëü... |
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| author Áîíäàðåâà Þëèÿ |
| Panteleev, Denis |
| Âîò óæå è 21 ãîä , à áóäòî êàê â÷åðà !!!! |
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| author Èðèíà |
| Ustinovskaya, Yekaterina |
| Ïîìíèì. |
| 24/10/23 17:44 more... |
| author Àíîíèì |
| Is something happening to us? |
| Written by Ýëüâèðà Ãîðþõèíà | ||||||||
| Âîñêðåñåíüå, 02 Ñåíòÿáðü 2007 | ||||||||
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The absence of Anya’s words these days has already led to necrosis of the senses “Dear Anna, excuse me for my familiarity, but it seems easier this way. Yes, and I am 80 years old… I read all your articles, and I copy them and give to others. I admire honesty. To tell the truth, I fear for your safety (I remember that glass of water on the airplane). Perhaps there is a limit to good luck, a sort of critical mass? I know this for myself (only when I hit 80 did I start getting more cautious, though this is not a fact as much as it is a limit). You have so many enemies that you need to be more careful…” I opened the envelope, which was addressed to Anna Politkovskaya, on October 14th. A week had passed since her death. I looked at when the letter was sent: October 4th. Three days before her death!  Who could it have been, who could so accurately sense this certain limit to critical mass? I finished reading the letter to the end. Veteran of the Great Patriotic War Leonid Yefimovich Tomashpolsky wrote it. Later I learned that he was just seventeen when he left to fight. In 1945, as part of the 313th Infantry Division, he crossed the kilometer-wide Oder River at its mouth. They were thrown into the icy, stormy strait without proper craft. He lost comrades in arms left and right, and was forced to take command of the group. Many other things befell the young warrior.He offered our Anna other work to do, such as searching for the dead. He wanted to save her. I dialed Leonid Yefimovich’s home number, and apologized for opening the envelope and reading her letter. I heard crying, and the man’s lamentation:  “I jinxed her. I felt the inevitability of disaster. I shouldn’t have said anything about it, or have written her. It’s my fault.”To tell the truth, I recognized her immediately. From her voice, the tone with which she spoke about the events in Beslan school gymnasium. She lost Zhorik there, Zhorik, whom everyone called ‘the golden boy’. She called on the third day of Easter. She did not celebrate Easter that year, but would someday: winter, spring, summer, fall, whatever time of year it is that Zhorik returns home. “We’ll dye eggs and wear red.” How do I know Zifa so well? It was from an article by Anna Politkovskaya, about a woman who expressed breast milk into a teaspoon and gave it to children so that they could moisten their parched lips. Only Zhorik would not take any, because it was milk for his younger sister Vika. Zifa is not simply beautiful. She is supernatural. She is there, where her Zhorik is. Anya wrote the piercing truth about a mother who will never come to terms with the death of her child, a mother who does not believe any DNA test, and who will never accept a plastic bag with body fragments as being that, which was her boy. I timidly asked for a meeting. “Come on over,” she said, somehow detached. They say that, other than Zhorik, she sees and hears nothing and no one.  So: Zifa Ageyeva sees and hears our Anya Politkovskaya.“Something must be done. We can’t have her living like this.” Zifa is talking about Anya, the one that few people know. Out in the yard it is dank autumn, turning into winter. Anya is getting ready to leave Zima’s house and travel to Ingushetia, and from there, to Chechnya. “You should see her boots, with the thin soles. I offered her some warm socks and boots. Tried to get her to stay until morning.” Zifa called Anya’s route fatal: “What crazy luck it would take to go from Beslan to Ingushetia, and in Ingushetia, what are they going to say about somebody who just came from Beslan? Anya left at night. She said there were people waiting for her in Ingushetia. They have it rough. They’re in trouble.”  An What Anya saw and experienced and described are special kinds of occurrences. Professional, while at the same time existential. Why were the authorities so sensitive about her articles? In the words of the philosopher, behind the details of a specific case, she discovered the force of law. Something greater than the contour and meaning of our general life stood out beyond her personal destiny, our common destiny. That is what she could not forgive. It is, after all, true that we happily (or unhappily) dwell in a world full of dead things: ideologies, national myths, declarations, conventions, elections… She presented us with the real world: real life and real people with their So many journalists were quick to announce that never read Politkovskaya’s articles. I read them. All of them. As a true teacher, I had a lot of questions for the author. Anya was ready to push any kind of work, and talk about what went on behind the scenes. The space that Anya mastered for just a single article just boggles the mind. Sometimes she showed me a phrase or a paragraph that was struck out or softened by the editor. I mumbled something along the lines of: “They wanted to spare you.” “But what about them…? They need to be spared,” and she pointed to the mountain of mail that did not tend to decrease. She knew it. “Is something happening to us?” she asked, whenever her intuition told her that the search was on for an optimal solution to a problematic situation. Anna viewed this as yet another victory for conformism. Everyone who even got a glimpse of Anya could feel that her strength of late was reaching its limit. The New Lie furnished a powerful, majestic backdrop against which an individual’s fate was just some annoying little detail in the landscape. But no more. Superhuman efforts were required, but she furnished it, never sparing herself. I asked her once why she never took a break to go abroad, or write a book. “No. It’s impossible to live in There were situations where Anya adopted other causes, unrelated to the Caucasus. It also became clear that there really was no limit to her capabilities. Other facets of her gift were revealed, unexpected, and powerful. Once she wrote about Syktyvkar, about the orphanage and the children there who were being victimized by well-organized thugs. There was predatory theft of funds and apartments, and the first to suggest that the children’s money be transferred to the orphanage’s account was its director, Alexander Katolikov. A great teacher. My disciple. I shuddered when Anya went there. But, lo! Good for you, Anya! “Katolikov didn’t keep a kopeck for himself,” she said. “Anya!” I almost shout. “How can you even know this? Sasha’s no longer alive.” “Yes, and God be with you, Elvira Nikolaevna. I saw his students. Everything was obvious to me.” Beslan showed that Anya was a team player. She was glad that we knew the same people and walked the same roads. Over packets of instant oatmeal and herbal tea, we suspected that she was ill, but any talk about her disease was taboo. She was a team player while serving on the jury for the Sakharov Prize. In contrast to all of us, she never complained about never having enough time, even though she had to read more than more than a hundred works. She laughed it off: “I read when I’m stuck in traffic.” She never made it to a single ceremony: she was participating in the Blagoveshchensk trial, defending the rights of that battered city, or rescuing yet another victim of fate from jail. On the jury, her gift for being able to distinguish lies from the truth was clearly visible. This is not that easy nowadays. The degree of word manipulation is such that it lies are performing the functions of truth, even outperforming it in their essence. Before us now is that which philosophers refer to as a dead double, and no one was Anya’s equal at recognizing a dead word. Perhaps I am wrong, but it seems to me that the absence of Anya’s words these days has already led to an obvious result: an increase in the rate of necrosis of public life. The word of a single person does not decide the fate of a situation, but it may prevent it from taking place. It is possible to insert a stick into the spokes of the vehicle of lies. It is possible to retard its triumphant progress. Wherever life takes me, it is enough to just say: “I’m from the newspaper where Anya…” and not have to say anything else. It is a password, and they always give you the same look: full of understanding, and a sense of guilt for what took place. Nevertheless, we have become different. The process of bringing us closer to ourselves, to what the Lord devised for us, may not be leading to success. Already we do not know the whole truth about the ‘sweeps’ in Ingushetia, about those who disappeared from the long-suffering city of Dachny, in the suburban region of Ossetia, because the voice of their patron has fallen forever silent. We are ashamed, because even together we fail at doing what she could do. Alone. But we know that we should not, we have no right to do so. To lie to ourselves, and to others. It is but little consolation, and yet, all the same… P. S. Once I ended up a filming of the Rezo Chkheidze movie, ‘Don Quixote’. The director, Lomer Akhvlediani was nearby, watching the filming from the side. The sixth, and seventh takes went by. Suddenly I could not hold it any longer: “Look, Lomer, doesn’t Don Quixote see that some actions need to be corrected…?” I never got to finish the sentence. As soon as he starts to correct his actions, he will be either Lomer, or Elvira, but he will no longer be Don Quixote. 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