In the "Russian Journal", the theme of the empire, quite relevant and real, is somehow strange. For some reason, they went to the psychoanalysis of the complex "because I want to be in the restroom, but there are no restrooms in Russia." The appeal to Byzantium is simpler, but also from the field of archetypes and the unexplored. To link the fate of basilevs and crusaders with the elections of Medvedev is the "third path" even in a steep postmodern. Neither rationality, nor metaphysics.