That night the samurai decided... Intelligence services as a guarantor of Japanese interests Mikhail Falkov Publication date: January 11, 2003 The visit of the leader of the Land of the Rising Sun to Moscow, which began on January 9, is an extremely important event for Russian-Japanese relations. Since the middle of the last century, these relations have been viewed by both sides primarily in the context of territorial disagreements related to the Kuril Islands.

"In the religion from God"! A rare professor of medieval European University would have decided on such a statement. And if he decided, he would probably have lost the department, and in return would have been able to postpone plenty with representatives of the Inquisition. But, thank God, in the yard, not a gloomy Middle Ages, but an enlightened XXI century. And now a rare professor-religious, and maybe not a religious scholar, will not raise his vote in defense of religion.

In 1999, when justifying the need to switch to 12-year schooling, teachers were frightened by the “demographic factor” 1 : “According to forecasts, in 2011 there will be not 21 million students studying in schools, as now, but only 13 million, which could lead to a significant reduction in the teaching load of teachers, a reduction in schools and significant unemployment among teachers." In the final version of the text, “unemployment” was replaced by “socio-economic consequences.” However, it