First, in Borea, Valery Savchuk put the slogan introducing into thought: "Artist, remember that there was postmodernism!" Then Mikhail Epstein came from America, so remarkably proving that postmodernism died. And then these two thinkers came together at the same point of space. Mikhail Epstein - Russian philosopher, teacher of the University of Emory in Atlanta, believes that in the Russian language there are too many non -transitional verbs.

So, with the last sobs of the “liberal-conservative” discourse, our little Valhalla finally enters the new world under the bell alarm that accompanies the long funeral of the old world. Over the past decades, we have already experienced the death of history (Fukuyama), politics (the death of politics), music (J. Cage, “noise”), literature (the death of the author), painting (pop art and conceptualism).

Kustarev A. Nervous people: Essays on the intelligentsia. M.: Partnership of the scientific publications of KMK, 2006. “A citizen of intellectuals // did not like intellectuals,” wrote one poet, whose popularity, unfortunately, did not spread beyond the limits of the Litinsky dormitory, when students really lived in this hostel. And now about the intelligentsia has already begun to somehow reason. They say and write more and more about the elites.

Will the Central Asia be Islamist? Article one Archaicization of society as a way to smooth out social contradictions Many Russian experts say about social contradictions that are the nutrient environment of Islamic fundamentalism. Thus, the famous Russian Islamic scholars Professor Alexei Malashenko wrote about the leaders of the Central Asian countries in 2001: “The people in them were disappointed, they could not build a normal prosperous society anywhere.

Personnel rearrangements in Gazprom Alexander Leonidov Alexander Ryazanov today left the post of deputy chairman of the board of Gazprom. According to the press center of the company, acting as deputy chairman of the board, Valery Golubev, who previously held the position of member of the board of OJSC Gazprom, the head of the Department of Investment and Construction.

The Estonian Embassy takes place a picket Alisa Borisova The Estonian Embassy in Moscow is taking a protest against the intention of the Estonian authorities to dismantle the monuments to the fallen Soviet soldiers. The action is organized by the youth movement "ours". According to the organizers of the picket, an attempt to demolish monuments to the Soviet soldiers -liberators by the Estonian authorities - state vandalism.

Dictionary: "Commissioner" is a leader, leader, sensei, mentor, friend, comrade, teacher ... to delete unnecessary. "Club" is any small informal group, a team, including calling itself an edition, theater, party cell ... Continue for need. Preliminary installation Teenagers and boys are not preschool children and are generally not inclined to respect advance. But in information proximity, something bright appears from them: a voluntary team with incomprehensible, and therefore mysterious orders.

As noted in the press release for the government meeting posted on the official website of the Cabinet of Ministers, the agreement provides for simplifying the procedure and the procedure for issuing single visas up to three months, as well as multiple visas for certain categories of citizens.

The mission of the regional corporation The north -west is a special place in Russia, the assembly point of alternative scenarios for the development of the country, the dynamic and enterprising region, the guardian of historical heritage, the philanthropist and the cultural propulsion. The national statehood is undergoing a crisis that has a systemic nature today.

The teaching of Orthodox culture in the schools of most regions of Russia has already become an accomplished fact. The course, which describes the features of church life, retells the lives of saints and is called differently in each region, is already taught in dozens of constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Only according to the textbook "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" Alla Borodina, are carried out in more than twenty Russian regions.

Sociologist Yuri Levada died in Moscow Olga Ilyina In Moscow, at the age of 77, the famous Russian sociologist Yuri Levada, who headed the company Levada Center, died. The sociologist became bad with the heart right at work. He died today at about 15.00. Yuri Levada is a doctor of philosophical sciences, professor, author of numerous scientific articles on the theory and methodology of sociology, the sociology of religion, social anthropology, the author of the first USSR Courses for Sociology.

There is a suspicion that the old scheme for dividing the world into East and the West is out of place irrevocably. On a planetary scale, globalization mixed these two concepts in various relationships. "Western -East Wind" - as the poetic collection of E. Schwartz is called (St. Petersburg: Pushkin Fund, 1997). The eastern country in all parameters of Japan today is internally much closer to the countries of Western Europe and North America than to neighboring East Asia.

The Ukrainian branch of the Institute of CIS countries prepared a certificate of an attempt by V. Yushchenko to push the bill "On the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine", which enshrines the provision on "genocide of Ukrainians." Some excerpts from the bill resemble chapters from Orwell’s novel “1984”.

Almost 5 trillion. Rules will be spent in Russia in the next 10 years for the development, purchase and modernization of weapons, Sergey Ivanov said at a meeting of the leading staff with the participation of the president. On October 14, a state program was adopted for 2007-2015, the minister recalled.