Culture and politics. Ved. N. Urbanskaya 1. Workdays of the Foreign Broadcasting Directorate of the USSR State Television and Radio. Renata Kebak, until recently an employee of the Hungarian edition of this department, tells the story. Essay "My police are protecting me - from whom and from what?" Why is the radio committee building swarming with police officers? The author is reading. 2. Reflections on the war of the writer Viktor Nekrasov. Defense of Kyiv. 3. Sergey Dovlatov. continuation of the series of essays “Ordinary People” - “In Search of Accommodation”. Another problem of Soviet life. In the USSR they don’t take bribes, but without a chervonets you can’t check into a hotel even with a journalist’s ID.