Den’s Millennium
On the eve of year 2001 the word millennium became very popular coming from the Latin word mill (thousand).
This word carries in it a certain soundness, maturity. Even age can be short. Millennium cannot, by definition. This word contains the strength of compressed time which had been already surmounted by mankind.
A daily newspaper, of course, does not represent all mankind. But it is mankind’s model. It is also a living organism, which is changing, forming, improving itself, except that in frames of the editorship, not the whole planet. That is why the 1000th issue is undeniably a significant milestone for a newspaper.
During this period, the newspaper has been developing according to its own editorial laws (some people left, leaving a part of their personality on its pages, others joined it, changing its view “in their own image and visage”), and to the laws concerning everybody. In any case, we tried to make each of our thousand issues more interesting than the one before, in each of them we intended to reflect life of our country, of the world, as completely as possible.
We can think that we succeeded in this, to some extent, out of the great number of letters that we receive every day from our readers. We can also judge on what has turned out badly by the readers’ audience reaction. And this reaction is often uneven.
However, this is the way it should to be, since only viewing a problem from different perspectives can demonstrate it objectively. The main thing is that through all the time of our existence our dialogue with the reader had never been interrupted. And when the reader had an opportunity to form for himself an idea of Den , we in our turn can picture our reader quite clearly.
He belongs to the elite. No, not to the elite stratum of society, but to the intellectual elite, to people who are not too lazy to meditate on political, economic, and cultural topics. It can be seen from the letters that (as a rule) our reader is an intelligent, easy-tempered, profound person, not indifferent to the problems of his fatherland. He is happy for our newspaper’s victories and points out our defects without hysteria or irritation. After all, who is perfect? Let’s take humanity — has it got rid of its defects completely?
However, we fight them, improving ourselves as far as we can. And if you, dear reader, are not bored with us, if we will peak your interest as we always have tried to do, let us set out together to the issues 1001, 1002, and so on.
Incidentally, subscription for the next year is in full swing. So, see you!
