According to preliminary data in the current US Congress elections, the Democrats turned out to be leaders for the first time since 1994. However, in the Senate of the Democrats, the advantage turned out to be small - just one chair. The re -elected Senator Hilary Clinton, the wife of ex -president of the United States Bill Clinton, turned to her voters with the words: "The current election is the great victory of the Democrats." “I thank you all for support.

Today, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the headquarters of military intelligence - GRU. Here, the head of state held a meeting with the leading composition and veterans of domestic military intelligence. Putin instructed the Main intelligence department to pay increased attention to the issues of non -proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Russian Journal: Is it possible to raise the question of Russian political culture not only in terms of its specificity and identity, but through the definition of its universal features? Alexander Prokhanov: I think, in the Russian political culture, which originates in the Russian Middle Ages, and maybe before, the irrational component is very strong. It is difficult to express and often remains indescribable.

I. Being in the prime of life (and not having a keyboard), Samuel Johnson managed to write twelve thousand words a day. I doubt that in the Harry Frankfurt miniature book “About X ** not”, published last year Princeton University Press, will be many more than half of Johnson’s daily norm, but this did not stop her - to become a bestseller, as evidenced by the stacks of this book, modestly rushing near the cash register. All bookstores.

The concept of "empire", which is made into the name of the collection, the authors themselves are proposed to understand the most widely as possible - as everything related to Nabokov , from the features of poetics to advertising products operating the name of the writer and the heroes of his works.

The authorities and the opposition of Kyrgyzstan today have agreed on the project of the new Constitution of the republic. "After the adoption of the Constitution in Kyrgyzstan, there will actually be a parliamentary republic, and thereby we will put an end to the" family "management", the deputy of the parliament and one of the opposition leaders Azimbek Beknazarov told reporters on Wednesday.

From the editorial office: An article dedicated to the significant event in the life of the NBP leader Eduard Limonov came to the RG editor - the writer was born on November 7. Due to the fact that the editors do not have the opportunity to verify the reliability of the information set forth in the article, we have all responsibility for its maintenance on the author.

We have three holidays that Russians perceive primarily as an extraordinary weekend, often unexpected, because they rarely remember them - this is the Day of Russia (June 12), the Constitution Day (December 12) and, finally, the Day of National Unity, which we have celebrated the second time on November 4. The reasons for the appearance of the latter are as clear as its ideology is dark: it was necessary to create a new "Red Calendar Day" in exchange for November 7th.

The norm on the minimum turnout of voters for elections in the election legislation of the Russian Federation can be canceled. An amendment to the bill under consideration in the second reading, limiting the manifestation of extremism within the framework of election campaigns, was introduced by State Duma deputy Alexander Moskalet. The working group of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building on the change in electoral legislation approved such an proposal.

The line separating the banality from the truth is sometimes extremely thin. The idea that the Russian bureaucratic machine cannot work effectively without a “driver” balances on this face. The authorities, on the one hand, are mythologized, resists rationalization, on the other hand, it is personified to the limit, representing in the public consciousness in the form of a specific person endowed with higher, almost mystical abilities and exceptional prerogatives.

First of all, I want to congratulate all readers on the past holidays - anyone who likes what. Personally, I am much more likely, after all, the “red day of the calendar”, which we are trying to slowly slide: the fifth ace in the sleeve, actually, is also located close to quite legitimate maps. And the most noticeable network event of the last week was perhaps the most likely " Russian march ". Recently, I had television reigned on the second monitor connected to the computer through the tuner.

Watching the events in Kyrgyzstan, it is quite difficult to get rid of bewilderment: what are they? They were an “island of democracy”, then the “revolution of the tulips” was arranged, then they decided to “devour” her “children” ... I remember that in one Soviet film, the heroine Nonna Mordyukova complained about the changeable disposition of her roommate: “then he, and then, and then Rrrraz - and this!”.

The fashion magazine "Critical Mass" in the capital section ("Topic/Opera") places an interview with the fashionable director Dmitry Chernyakov.