Do not blaspheme, lest you be judged! Not long ago, a loud international scandal involving the accusation of slander against the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk ended happily. The reason for bringing this accusation was an interview that the writer gave to a Swiss newspaper in February 2005, where he noted the facts of the murder of about a million Armenians in Turkey in 1915 and thirty thousand Kurds in 1984.

Tony Jadt. After the war: the history of Europe since 1945. (Tony Judt. Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. Penguin Press, 2005. Pages: 960) In an article written at the beginning of the Cold War, Reimon Aron said: “In our time - and this is true for individual citizens and states - a defining, fateful choice can only be global, more precisely - geographical.

This is not the point that the president, for more than three hours, speaking to the collective journalist of the Russian Federation, summed up some results and made statements regarding the future. The bottom line is that the new political science has begun. Very simple: for most topics involved in the president, there were a large number of different versions, assumptions, hypotheses, fictions, etc.

From the editor. Our regular contributor Mikhail Budaragin was among the journalists invited to Vladimir Putin’s big press conference. Below is his account of the event. The recent “big” press conference of Vladimir Putin is another (although far from the first) reason to think about what challenges the Russian government faces today. And another reason to try to understand which of the challenges she is ready to answer, and which she does not even want to keep in mind.

It’s cold, although it swings from an unexpected thaw to wild frost and back. For what? Because it's winter. The extremely conservative thinker Konstantin Leontiev stated more than a hundred years ago: Russia must be frozen, otherwise all sorts of bastards will begin to decompose it, starting from the head and ending with the tail. In my opinion, Leontiev himself was a so-so person.