“After” is one of the most important for the editorial office of Polit.ru projects. For almost two years now we have been talking with a variety of people - scientists, writers, political scientists, journalists, businessmen - about what it is after. Does Russia have a future? Where to look for your “not very terrible Russia of the future”? Well, yes, like this - “not very terrible”, we are modest realists, and not rampant optimists.