At the invitation of the Russian Institute, the famous Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek will give a series of lectures in Moscow from March 5 to 8, 2007. By translating this article, posted on the website of InoSMI , one of the information sponsors of Žižek’s visit, Russian Journal introduces its readers to the current work of this author.

Modern Italian cinema is a product of a society that does not see itself from the outside. Italy imagines himself a blooming country, albeit with a somewhat archaic life lifestyle, but, in the general opinion, the monotony of life is the key to health. Our cinema has become unsurpassed by the ability to move away, forget about pressing problems.

Migrants living in Russia announced the creation of a new organization uniting citizens from 26 countries of the world - the "Federation of Migrants of Russia" (FMR). “Our main task is to combine disparate groups of foreign citizens who come to Russia to study and work,” said Majumder Muhammad Amin, chairman of the FMR Organizing Committee on Thursday. Most of the members of the organizing committee are Russian citizens.

The Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Fradkov today signed an order on the distribution of duties and powers between the first deputy prime ministers Sergey Ivanov and Dmitry Medvedev, as well as between Deputy Prime Ministers Alexander Zhukov and Sergey Naryshkin. Fradkov reported this, opening a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers.

The Prime Minister of Italy Romano Prodi filed a petition for resignation, foreign news agencies report. Today it was accepted by Italy President Georgio Napolitano. The reason for the decision of Prodi was the vote in the upper house of the Italian parliament, which did not approve the government’s resolution on foreign policy.

The President of the Russian Federation presented on Thursday in the Kremlin state awards and honorary titles to a large group of outstanding Russians. In total, 45 people received honorary titles and awards from the hands of Vladimir Putin. The title of Hero of the Russian Federation for the courage and heroism manifested in the test of aircraft was assigned to the test pilot of the open joint-stock company Aviation Complex named after Ilyushin Nikolai Kimov.

At the invitation of the " Russian Institute" from March 5 to March 8, 2007 in Moscow, a well -known Slovenian philosopher with the glory of Zizhek will perform with a lecture cycle. The translation of this article posted on the Inosmi website, one of the information sponsors of the Zizhek’s visit, “Russian Journal” introduces its readers to the current work of this author.

The entire anti-Soviet project since the 60s and, to a large extent, the current anti-Russian campaign rely on the inherent in the inherent feeling of dislike for the bureaucrat (official). The feeling is quite understandable, although normally controlled by the mind. It was excited, apparently, on the wave of a liberal-democratic anti-imperial movement in the nineteenth century, and then strengthened by Marxism.

Azerbaijan is not ready to join NATO, said the country's president Ilham Aliyev. “Today it is clear for NATO and for us,” he said in an interview with the German television and radio channel Deutsche Welle, the text of which is distributed through official channels in Baku.

One of the February evenings, the author was in Bilingu. The "bilingual" was atypical, an unusual tearful enthusiasm hung in it. It was even smoked beyond measure, although it was always smoked there, but not to the same extent. Not quite typical and rather homogeneous citizens went inside. As if some rally of a slightly mature scouts. Most of them had cameras with them, they carefully photographed each other - groups and separately.

Chapter 2. Ariadne's Thread Having started with the root Russian fault line of the New Age - the disputes between Westerners and Slavophiles , having examined in previous chapters the moments of the 1991 revolution and the decade of subsequent chaos, we, naturally, must give a similar analysis of the first half of the 2000s. After the surreal madness of the 1990s, Russia began to painfully come to its senses.

Veto is imposed on the law on the demolition of monuments in Estonia Olga Ilyina Estonian President Toomas Hendrick Ilves officially rejected the law “On the demolition of prohibited structures”, which allows the Parliament, which allows the monuments to the Soviet warriors, as not corresponding to the constitution, the presidential office said on Thursday. The head of state invited the parliament to reconsider this law and bring it into line with the constitution.

Georgy Obolduev. Poems. Poem / Comp. A.D. Blagininin; Prep. text of I.A. Akhmetyev; Entering. Art. V. Klotser. - M.: Virtual Gallery, 2006. 608 p. The circulation is 1000 copies. Georgy Obolduev (1998-1954) published during his lifetime only a few poems, for the most part in the newspapers of the North-Western region, where he served a link in 1934-1939.