Aleksey Chadayev, member of the Public Chamber, deputy editor-in-chief of the Russian Journal, candidate of cultural studies "Russian Journal" : What is your general impression of the elections and the results obtained? Alexey Chadayev: Everything is according to “Putin’s plan.” Everything was as expected.

Editor's note: There are no official results of the elections held on December 2, so representatives of political parties refuse to comment in detail. In this situation, the expert community is mainly busy chewing on long-known political science truths. Then "Russian Journal" decided to ask representatives of the creative and scientific intelligentsia for their opinions on the election results and the elections themselves.

Eduard Shenderovich, Director of Strategic Development of the company "Soup" "Russian magazine" : The Russian Internet company "Soup" has become the new owner of the legendary Internet Devils of Livejournal. COM , especially popular among Russian bloggers. To whom it is beneficial: Live-users, owners of Livejourna L. com ? What is this acquisition related to?

V.V. KOLEVOV. Russian mentality in language and in the text. - St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg Oriental Studies, 2007. - 640 p. The circulation is 1000 copies. ISBN 978-5-85803-339-4 The book is a fundamental study of Russian mentality in the categories of language.

How can we win if it is easy to sell us? This simple line from the pop song may well serve as a brief description of the novel by Pavel Astakhov, whose artistic dignity is, of course, it is pointless, but it is worth paying close attention to ideological stories. After all, the author, probably, for a reason, received an order to lead the movement "for Putin". How did it happen that property rights in post -Soviet Russia turned out to be ghostly as a drawing in the sand?

What the events are good with the continuation - they manage to get bored without starting. However, this does not apply to events that once formerly pleasant in all respects. Like a book fair Non-Fiction. There are more and more fairs, less and less business, but the old train of a fashionable phenomenon with a flirty self -determination "intellectual" will stretch behind it for years. And then - Krupnyagi like AD marginem'a, charming St.

Maxim Grigoryev, President of the Institute for Research Problems of Democracy "Russian Journal": How can I comment on the statement of OSCE observers that the elections on December 2 in Russia were undemocratic, since there is no separation of powers in Russia, and state media are used to promote one of the parties? Maxim Grigoryev: The situation around this statement is quite simple. Such statements were expected, we did not even have any doubts that they would follow.

One of the most famous domestic translators of the Soviet leadership, Viktor Mikhailovich Superrev , the author of the book “My Language is My Friend”, gave an interview to “Russian Journal”. "Russian magazine": You are a witness, often the only, important political events, the backstage life of senior leadership. Surely a lot is not reflected in the book or your many interviews? Viktor Tuprev: What is not reflected? I cannot agree with this.

The elections have passed. We passed without surprises. And this is their main surprise. Everything turned out about the same as expected to forecasts of sociologists: with some not very significant nuances. Here, much can be analyzed and there are many nuances and the sociological picture of electoral addictions, and the used methods, and the fate of certain political forces and political movements.