The magazine Rīgas Laiks (also known as Rīgas Laiks. Russian edition and Riga Likes ) has been published in Russian quarterly since spring 2012 [1] [2] in Riga , Latvia . This is an intellectual magazine built on conversations with original or internationally famous personalities. The interlocutors of the magazine are scientists, writers, directors, composers, philosophers, politicians, including Nobel Prize winners. Letters and conversations with the philosopher, orientalist, philologist, historian, semiotic and writer Alexander Moiseevich Pyatigorsky are often printed in the journal. In the publication you can also find the essay and comments of its regular authors - Uldis Tirones, Arnis Ritups, Ilya Kalinin, Cyril Kobrin, Ilmars Schlapins, Donald Lopez, Hans-Ulrich Gumbrecht and others.
| Rīgas Laiks | |
|---|---|
| Tongue | Russian, Latvian |
| A country |  Latvia |
| Publisher | SIA "Rīgas Laiks" |
| Established | |
| ISSN print version | 2255-8136 |
| Web site | rigaslaiks.ru |
The Latvian version of the magazine - Rīgas Laiks has been published since November 1993 [3]
Content
Interview
Interviews with Scientists
- Mathematician and theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson (Winter 2012/2013)
- Linguist Noam Chomsky (Spring 2013)
- Stanford theoretical physicist Leonard Sasskind (Summer 2013)
Interviews with Philosophers
- Alexander Moiseevich Pyatigorsk
- Michael Frede (Summer 2012)
- Stanley Cavell (Fall 2012)
- Dieter Heinrich (Winter 2012/2013)
- Political Philosopher Michael Walser (Spring 2013)
- Miles Berniet (Spring 2013)
- Jonathan Lear (Summer 2013)
Significant Interviews
- American writer, Nobel Prize winner in literature Tony Morrison
- Writer Mikhail Shishkin
- Literary critic Harold Bloom
- Chinese dissident poser Liao Liu
- Artist Victor Pivovarov
- Filmmaker Werner Herzog
- Filmmaker Jonas Mekas
- Filmmaker Kira Muratova
- Filmmaker Evgeny Pashkevich
- Film expert Naum Kleiman
- Architect Rem Koolhaas
- Theorist of Architecture Alexander Rappaport
- Composer Peteris Vasks
- Composer Arvo Pärt [4]
- Composer Rodion Shchedrin
- Musician, lead singer of The Tiger Lillies Martin Jacques
- Journalist and musicologist Solomon Volkov
- Advertiser Neil French
- Poet Uldis Berzins
- Multiplier Yuri Norshtein
- Historian Timothy Snyder
- Intellectual Michael Ignatiev
- Therapist Alexander Alekseychik
- Actress Meredith Monk
- Artist Marina Abramovich
- Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves
- Political scientist Ivan Krastev
- Head of the New Riga Theater Alvis Hermanis
Further reading
Sulmane, I., & Kruks, S. (2001, August). Ethnic and political stereotypes in Latvian and Russian language press in Latvia. In 15th Nordic Conference on Media and Communication Research, Reykjavik. - Refers to the magazine as a publication that is not affected by stereotypes (p. 11)