There is an opinion according to which sport as a mass spectacle channels potential aggression. It is possible that someone has a sewer. And in some it clearly excites. It depends, so to speak. Sewage, as you know, also does not always behave flawlessly. It happens that it gets clogged. It happens at the national level as well.

The sad circumstance is that representatives of the “reluctant art” are reacting more and more nervously and aggressively to certain phenomena or events that exist or arise in a special socio-cultural space called “contemporary art”, and if we call a spade a spade, then, directly say, the fundamentalist public, no longer particularly surprises anyone and even becomes a kind of specific routine these days.

Recently, some Russian commentators could detect notes of irritation at the way the Kremlin's current global role is assessed in the American media - and not only in the American ones.

Having read, almost to the point of intoxication, various news and comments about all sorts of sanctions and anti-sanctions, about all sorts of Olympic doping stories, about hacker penetration into other people's elections, as well as about symmetrical and asymmetrical responses and other realities and phantoms of our current foreign policy life, for some reason I...

At the end of the 70s, among artists and writers close to me, several words arose that ironically denoted some features of the discourse that existed among artists and writers who were not very close to me. These words were uttered quite often, they were always pronounced with specific, slightly contemptuous intonations and were considered then (and in essence were) a killer argument in the sluggish, but not abating polemics between those who... But here, excuse me, I feel certain difficulties.

My nephew, who has been living in New York for quite some time, recently wrote on his Facebook page: “I almost never write about politics here, but today I was interested in one piece of news on the Internet, namely, about the naming of a square next to the embassy after Boris Nemtsov Russia in Washington. It was not the news itself that interested me, but the reaction of the Russian authorities, who offendedly promised a symmetrical response. What's the answer? For what?

During one of my recent ritual runs on Facebook, I came across a question that required, if not a categorically unambiguous answer, then at least an enthusiastic discussion. The question was: “Can the Holocaust be the object of jokes, anecdotes and humor?” These or similar questions have become quite common in our time. I didn’t find anything new for myself in this either, but for some reason I gave an answer that inevitably grew into a side thread of the general conversation.

Does it make sense to spread obviously unpopular ideas, and, if so, how exactly should this be done?

In 2001–2002, Argentina's economy was hit by a severe crisis: a third of families in the suburbs of Buenos Aires fell below the poverty line, and the painful abandonment of the national currency's convertibility, combined with a financial crisis and a default on government debt, undermined the confidence of domestic and foreign investors.

With this publication we continue the series of materials, which are individual articles from the collection “The Great Revival: What the Victory of Capitalism over Communism Taught Us,” prepared by A. Oslund and S. Dyankov based on the materials of the conference held on their initiative in Budapest in May 2014. The collection has already been published in English, and the entire collection will be published in Russian later this year.

There is a common misconception that people who support free markets also support everything big business does. Nothing could be further from the truth. I firmly believe that people should seek to satisfy their own interests in a competitive capitalist system, and therefore have no right to judge a businessman who tries to obtain special privileges for his company from the government.

The round table, organized by the Higher School of Economics together with the Liberal Mission Foundation, was dedicated to the global changes that the global economic crisis can bring about. What might the future of the international financial system look like? How will the global system of international relations develop? Will Russia be able to overcome its imperial instincts and integrate into the system of European states?

[139] About studying history [ Lecture given at the inauguration of the professorship at Cambridge, June 11, 1895 ] Gentlemen, students, colleagues! Today I think back to the time before mid-century, when I was reading history in Edinburgh and longing to go to Cambridge University. I then applied to three colleges, and, I have to admit, all three rejected me.

De la liberte des anciens comparee a celle des modernes. Lecture given at the Royal Athenaeum. Paris, 1819 [1] Gentlemen, I'm going to show you some of the differences between the two types of freedom. These differences have so far remained unnoticed, or at least very little attention has been paid to them. The first of the freedoms was so dear to the ancient peoples who professed it; possession of the second seems especially valuable to modern nations.

[104] Historical Sketch of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania from its Origin; in terms of dealing with the various aspects of the disputes which have arisen from time to time between the governors of Pennsylvania and the assemblies. Compiled based on original documents Those who are willing to give up basic freedom for the sake of short-term safety, deserve neither freedom nor security.