The problem of identity and national self-awareness began to be actively discussed in the 19th century in that intellectual environment that tried to transfer the German concept of national integrity and unity to domestic soil. The subsequent transformation of the idea of ​​unity into “nationalist dreams” is natural: renewed in Stalin’s time, this idea was finally formed during the period of stagnation in Russia, and today it is again being revised and intensified.

The growing economic growth, caused, however, to a greater extent by growing external rather than internal demand, gave rise to a number of problems about which nothing was heard for ten to fifteen years. One of them is called the labor problem. There is a shortage of it, and its lack is slowly slowing down further economic development. For now, this problem is being discussed calmly, since there is no sharp labor shortage yet.

For the first time during all the reign of Vladimir Putin, Britain accused him of authoritarianism. This is written today by the British edition of The Guardian. The British authorities fear that the process of democratization of society may stop, and even, perhaps, the country will begin to go back to the authoritarian. Nevertheless, the newspaper notes, Britain will continue to maintain cooperation with Russia.

The ABC Madrid newspaper received a letter that states that al-Qaeda will turn Spain into “Real Hell” if it does not immediately withdraw troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, RIA Novosti reports. The message is written in Arabic by hand. It was signed by a certain group called "Ansar al-Qaeda." It was this group that took responsibility for terrorist attacks committed in Madrid on March 11.

On Monday, the dollar added 3 kopecks, rising to 28.54 rubles, which was largely a reaction of the Russian foreign exchange market to the renewed growth of the American currency on the FOREX market. Today's trading opened at RUB 28.52. and during the day they passed quite calmly: transactions were made in the range of 28.5-28.5425 rubles. with relatively low player activity (the turnover of two ETS sessions by 11:30 did not exceed $100 million).

The massacre of CSKA and Spartak fans in the south-west of Moscow that happened last Sunday, despite its ordinariness, has no precedents. Clashes between groups associated with football clubs, unfortunately, have long become commonplace in and around stadiums, and until now have differed only in the number of those involved, the degree of cruelty and the number of seats torn away. However, the latest skirmish went far beyond the unwritten rules of fan wars. Let us recall how events developed.

** What to expect in the coming hours. Announcement of events ** In Moscow: April 5-11 - State Duma deputies will work in their constituencies. A joint meeting of the Commission of the General Council of the United Russia party on the formation of a market for affordable housing, the International Association of Housing Funds and regional participants in the mortgage market.

The price of May futures contracts for WTI brand oil during trading in the Electronic System of the New York Product Exchange (NYMEX) on Monday morning is $ 34.40 per barrel, which is $ 0.01 above the final value of Friday, Bloomberg reports. At the same time, on Friday, the price of May futures on WTI on NYMEX rose by $ 0.12 - to $ 34.39 per barrel. On the International Oil Exchange (IPE, London), the price of May Brent oil futures on Friday fell by $ 1.34 and amounted to $ 30.21 per barrel.

The governor of the Altai Territory was chosen by the artist of the conversational genre Mikhail Evdokimov. In the second round, he defeated the current governor Alexander Surikov, gaining about 50% of the vote against 46%. Seriously, no one has believed to today the Anschlag veteran like a similar success.

Speaking with the last word before the jury, the scientist Igor Sutyan, accused of treason, announced his innocence. This was reported by RIA Novosti by the lawyer of the defendant Boris Kuznetsov. According to the lawyer, the judge manipulates the opinion of the jury. Questions of the jury were compiled as follows: whether Sutyan transmitted any information and whether he received a reward for this. "Meanwhile, the question of whether this information is not posed by a state secret.

The jury recognized the Russian scientist Igor Sutyagin guilty of state treason in the form of espionage. According to RIA Novosti, the lawyer of the defendant Boris Kuznetsov, a majority vote (8 of 12), the jurors decided that the scientist did not deserve condescension. The discussion of the verdict will be held tomorrow, April 6, in the Moscow City Court. The prosecutor will ask the court to be sentenced to the scientist. Then the date of the sentence will be set, Kuznetsov said.

According to German journalists, the FSB of Russia knew about the upcoming capture of Nord-Ost back in the spring of 2002, the Gazeta reports. As Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten wrote on Saturday on Saturday, now the General Prosecutor's Office of the Federal Republic of Germany is conducting its own investigation of the circumstances associated with this terrorist attack.

The head of the US Civil Administration in Iraq, Paul Bremer, announced today the radical Shiite leader Muktad Sadra Out of the Law, ITAR-TASS reports. His group is accused of unleashing the past day of bloody clashes in four Iraqi cities. Today, supporters of Muktada Sadra captured the building of the administration of the city of Basra in the south of Iraq.

The offender, who captured hostages at the bank of the Spanish city of Alikant, released four of them. According to RIA Novosti, the attacker agreed to release three women. Another elderly woman was released about an hour ago. Recall, a few hours ago in the Spanish city of Alikant, an unknown criminal took hostage eight people. Threatening with a gun and a hand grenade, he demanded to give him cocaine, cigarettes and beer.

The seven priority tasks of the democratic movement in Russia are proposed by State Duma deputy Vladimir Ryzhkov in the article “April Theses of Liberalism”, published in today's issue of the newspaper “ Vedomosti ”. Firstly, the liberal leaders who are directly responsible for the mistakes of the 90s and therefore, to a large extent that have lost the trust of society, must recognize their responsibility and retreat into the background.