And again about universal conscription Alexander Khramchikhin Publication date: April 29, 2004 The general Russian public is constantly frightened by various projects to abolish deferments from conscription into the Armed Forces. At the same time, however, in reality the number of deferments is only increasing; a little more than 10% of the contingent is now being drafted into the Russian army.

How much money do you need to be happy? Sergey Romashko Publication date: May 3, 2004 I don't really like talking about coincidences. Especially in our country, where all empty mysticism and various kinds of “not by chance” are doomed to success. But still, some coincidences look at least funny enough to remind us of quite serious things. ended At the very beginning of the month , the international conference on Afghanistan . Who paid attention to her? Almost no one.

Statistics , the noisy girl of ideology, has long since taken a fancy to Russia in 1913 . Crying about full bins of all kinds of cereals, she bashfully remained silent, meanwhile, about the cereal spectacles. And who in pre-revolutionary Russia counted these coupletists and tap dancers, shalmans and shantans per capita? The chief specialist in shower accounting, Mr.

The political media system: what will it look like? Public lecture SU-HSE, spring 2004 Gleb Pavlovsky Publication date: May 7, 2004 Today, political journalism , as is generally recognized by people of various views, is experiencing a severe crisis . How does it manifest itself? First, we, as a rule, do not receive information about what is happening from the political media . The press is regularly published, television is working, some names are being called.

Depth of field Leonid Ruzov Publication date: April 29, 2004 “ There was an error in the calculations...” - these words began Stanislav Lem’s story “Eden” . The spaceship of the earthlings, suffering a catastrophe on a distant planet, by the way, was equipped with a nuclear engine - this detail seemed self-evident. In the “Land of Crimson Clouds” written around the same time by the Strugatsky brothers, everything rides, swims and flies on atomic energy.

National Literature Championship Gennady Krasukhin Publication date: April 29, 2004 More recently, the new minister of the newly formed Ministry of Education and Science, Andrei Fursenko, stated that, in principle, he has a positive attitude towards the Unified State Exam and the final oral exam.

New special mission for Rodina? Alexander Myachin Publication date: April 29, 2004 On April 28 , the Board of Directors of NK YUKOS approved the list of candidates for the Board of Directors of the company, among which is the candidacy of State Duma deputy from the Rodina bloc, former head of the Central Bank Viktor Gerashchenko.

Politics and linguistic identity Maxim Artemyev Publication date: April 29, 2004 The discussion about “pidgin-Russian” raised by Mr. Nevzorov in “Russian Journal” seems very interesting and gives rise to thoughts broader than the possible “pidginization” of the Russian language. Isn't there a danger of the emergence of at least fourteen variants - according to the number of former Soviet sister republics - potential "pidgin Russian", or, more precisely, variants of the "great and powerful"?

Invited guest Publication date: May 4, 2004 The decision of the former head of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation to join the Board of Directors of NK YUKOS did not cause much confusion among observers. As Alexander Konovalov , president of the Institute for Strategic Assessments and Analysis, said in a commentary to RJ, this move could not but be agreed upon with the Kremlin. So everything is fine.

Relatively recently, the new minister of the newly educated Ministry of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko said that in principle, he was positively related to the USE and the final oral exam.