Fifteen years ago, only experts possessing fantasy could contrast Europe and the USA. During the Cold War, the Western world was one. On this unity, an effective confrontation between the Soviet bloc was based. However, the Cold War ended, and with the beginning of the new era, the differences between the segments of Western civilization, lying on different sides of the Atlantic Ocean, began to appear more and more noticeably.

One Zhu learned to catch dragons, I threw off my strength and money. It is a pity that in his whole life He never met a single one. B. Grebenshchikov The old Aesopova parable about the fox that did not get grapes is a classic example of an incorrect and wicked court, but not at all what the wise psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud came up with the fable of fable.

In the " Idolov Valley ", Mikhail Weller boasted loudly, very loudly that he, the first writer in the world (of course, not counting Homer), who conquered the right (or privilege? - these words have different meaning) to print his books without the intervention of the editor and the corrector. Actually, the "Valley of Idolov" became the first such book of Weller. Reading her, you see that no one edited it: as it was written, it went to print.

What is the question of the value status of Russian statehood? Is it a question that it is put to present, just as it is done in the market, an account for goods or a service? This would be so if we turned it outward, that is, they justified the claim of the Russian state to some rights in one form or another: for example, the right to be in the G -8 - on the grounds that we can convert into the cost of participation in this club of "fat cats".

Today, Milton Friedman (Milton Friedman) 93 years old. In 1976, he became the Laureate of the Nobel Prize in Economics. His monetarist ideas and theories about the need for complete market freedom over the past few decades have had a great influence on a number of outstanding political figures - from Margaret Thatcher to Ronald Reagan.

Russian magazine: In the reasoning of the state of higher education, a general place has already become a complaint to the critical situation of technical universities. No less frequent complaints that domestic technical universities cannot prepare modern experts - there is no laboratory base, there are no new technologies. And on the other hand, there is no request for graduates. What are you see all these problems and how to solve them?