The editor -in -chief of one of the most popular radio stations in the country about why he is threatened with a resignation and what he will do if it happens Within seven days: the warning of the Roskomnadzor of the radio station and the Echo Moskvy site for the transfer of the battle for the Donetsk airport, the dismissal of the host of Alexander Poyshchev in violation of the editorial office and the statement of the chairman of the Board of Gazprom-Media Mikhail Lesin about your possible

KIF DARDEN, professor of the American University in Washington (USA): If the Russian economy continues to weaken - and its safety margin is small, then I am afraid that he (the Kremlin) did not translate the game to another field - where Russia is much more effective - to war.

KIF DARDEN, professor of American University: Putin, of course, underestimated the reaction of the West. He did not expect sanctions at all, and even more so did not expect Europe that Europe would join them. It seems to me that he also did not understand how much the Western economy and how these opportunities were used against him have.

"Black man! You are a preservation guest. This is a glory for a long time about you." I am furious, furious, and my cane flies directly to his face, to the nose .... . . . . . . . . . . . . ... a month has died, the dawn turns blue in the window. Oh, night! What are you, night, subserbing? I'm standing in the cylinder. There is no one with me. I am alone ... and a broken mirror ... November 14, 1925

The New Times managed to find a man who personally met Hitler when the “beer coup” has already borne fruit Edgar Feikhtwanger is a graduate of Cambridge, a professor of history at the University of Southampton, nephew and the only heir to one of the most famous German -speaking Jewish writers Lyon Feihtvanger. But for students he is “the same Jewish guy who lived next to Hitler” more than 80 years ago. How often did you see Adolf Hitler? I saw him face to face only once.

Tom Gomar, Director of the Center for the Study of Russia : Now we are on a new round of militaristic policy - on both sides. The EU previously talked about some risks for security in Europe, but now they realized that we are not talking about risks, but about direct threats - this led to an understanding of the need for active actions, including within the framework of NATO.

Negative attitude towards Russia and Putin in the world On November 5, Forbes magazine declared Vladimir Putin the most powerful person of 2014. On November 5, Forbes magazine declared Vladimir Putin the most powerful person of 2014. For the second year in a row, Putin went around this ranking of the American President Barack Obama and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Pope Francis took fourth place, the informal leader of the EU and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel - the fifth.

Tom Gomar, Director of the Center for the Study of Russia: Vladimir Putin wants three things: firstly, preserving his personal power. His second desire is to enter his name in history, to become one of the great Russian rulers. And finally, it is important for him that Russia receives international recognition as superpower: even the annexation of Crimea must, in its understanding, be perceived in the West as the actions of a strong country with which we must reckon.

Vladimir Gelman, Professor of the European University In St. Petersburg and Helsinki University: In the foreseeable future, the Kremlin will have to encounter a deterioration in the situation in the economy, on the one hand, and the strengthening of discontent in society - on the other. Therefore, the temptation is increasing to shift the responsibility for the situation on the now loyal "fellow travelers", at the same time accusing them of all sins.

Keith Darden, professor at American University: Putin certainly underestimated the reaction of the West. He did not expect sanctions at all, and even more so did not expect Europe to join them. It seems to me that he also did not understand how much power the Western economy had and how that power would be used against him.

Mark Kreimer, director of the Cold War of Harvard University : The Cold War, which lasted from about 1945 to 1989, was distinguished by two fundamental properties: a clash of two secular ideologies (Marxism-Leninism vs. Liberal democracy) and an extremely stratified structure of the world in which the United States and the USSR had the status of superpowers, and all other countries went more or less in the fairway of one or the other.

About what Putin looks like post -war Stalin, and what is not like Loneliness and distrust. Distrust as a cause of loneliness. And at the same time - as its consequence. There is no one to talk to - the bitter self -irony with the mention of Mahatma Gandhi sounded long before today's circumstances of absolute loneliness (“After the death of Mahatma Gandhi there is no one to talk to”, from the answers to the questions of Western journalists to the G8 summit, June 1, 2007).

Expert survey: before the annexation of Crimea, Putin was a member of the Eight and one of the most influential world leaders. After-Russia turned out to be excluded from the G-8, was under serious sanctions, and is on the verge of finance and economic crisis. Putin underestimated the possible reaction of the West to events in Ukraine or, on the contrary, deliberately chose confrontation? KIF DARDEN, professor of American University: Putin, of course, underestimated the reaction of the West.