History Training is a book that provides absolutely no answers or definitive understanding. Every word, every thought is controversial. And not only for the reader - for Gefter, his words are controversial at the moment of utterance. They are pronounced not to answer questions, but to pose questions. It is known that a correctly posed question is half the solution. But - half. The other half is not in the book.

From the editorial office. In the office of the Public Opinion Foundation, in the room of sociologists, there is a board on which there is a single sheet. List of surnames, near each - "Zarukki". This is a chronicle of the bets concluded between the FOM specialists regarding the future results of certain surveys.

Experiment with the Unified State Exam: it cannot be continued Sergey Volkov Date of publication: October 18, 2004 What is happening now with the experiment to introduce the Unified Exam can most accurately be described by the phrase in the title. The state just has to put the last comma in it. Every year there are fewer and fewer doubts about where exactly it will be installed.

The Ukrainian campaign as a battle for Moscow Date of publication: October 18, 2004 Ukrainian elections: positional analysis Based on materials from Ukrainian and Russian Internet media (September - first half of October 2004) From the editor. There are still many days left before voting in the presidential elections in Ukraine.

Seine, etc. Issue 204 Review of current online events and publications Tatyana Danilova Date of publication: October 18, 2004 Google is growing into the world's largest advertising broker: contextual advertising was introduced here first into web search results, then into GMail mail. Since last week, contextual advertising began to run on local computers. Another way to put it is that the world has been blessed with hard drive search, DesktopSearch, from Google.

What is happening now with an experiment on the introduction of a single exam , more precisely, it can be designated by a phrase carried out in the heading. The state remains to put the last comma in it. The doubts of exactly where it will be set, it remains less and less every year. The experiment draws into its orbit more and more participants, huge funds are invested in its conduct, little by little, not washing, so the whole system of education begins to build under the exam .

Self -government of fictions or a system of real places? In the yard, the reform of local self -government. The unit of the Soviet administrative-territorial division that was once created for the standardized centralized administration, is about to elevate to a special branch of power, in addition to the federal and the authorities of the constituent entities of the Federation. All according to the standard Western sample.

Paradoxes of local government Vladimir Kagansky Date of publication: October 18, 2004 Fictional self-government or system of real places? Local government reform is on the way. The units of the Soviet administrative-territorial division, once created for the most standardized centralized management, are about to be elevated to a special branch of government, in addition to the federal and the authorities of the federal subjects. Everything is according to the standard Western model.

Google grows up in the world's largest advertising broker: contextual advertising here was first introduced into the results of a web post, then in Gmail mail. Since last week, contextual advertising began to be driven on local computers. This can be stated in a different way: the world is granted to the Search for the Desktopsearch hard drive from Google. The search is really good, even if it works only with a narrow set of files, does not see folders of folders and ...

What's behind the ratings numbers? Ivan Klimov Date of publication: October 18, 2004 From the editor. In the office of the Public Opinion Foundation, in the room of sociologists, there is a board on which hangs a single piece of paper. A list of surnames, with “notches” next to each one. This is a chronicle of bets made between FOM specialists regarding the future results of certain surveys.