From the editorial office: historian and publicist Vyacheslav Gameunov, one of the few who in the 70-80s predicted the collapse of the USSR. Then, in his attempts to predict the future of the country, he designed a number of scenarios for the development of the Soviet Union. Each of them ended in the collapse of the country, but no one then heard his calls to think about the issue of the integrity of the state.

One of the most important issues of Russian politics - what course to conduct in relation to Ukraine? Not in the coming year or two, but for decades ahead. We will say more, which direction in which Russian-Ukrainian relations will turn into will be a test for the state maturity of the new Russia, it, we are not afraid of this word, a historical exam. Therefore, it is necessary to discuss their prospects seriously and honestly.

Obama was impeccably chosen a day to strike “heavy artillery”. According to the American press, the call to John Edwards from the Supporting Support of Barack Obama sounded on the day of the announcement of the results of the primaries in the state of West Virginia, on which Hillary Clinton won with more than two times a gear.

The time to which the publications of the A-I magazine were devoted, thanks to them, it can not be considered completely, but only partially "lost." And this despite the fact that not all episodes were remembered. I want to share some of them. When the first A-I numbers appeared in New York, two “authorities” appeared in it- mosquito and melamid ( km ), the only (besides Brodsky, Baryshnikov, etc.) representatives of the “imaginary East”, who established relations with the “imaginary West”.

“This is Moscow, here everything is the other way around!” - the heroes of the feature film “Flint” wisely noted. Moscow is not only a city where you can make a lot of money by climbing the corporate career ladder. Moscow is a city that provokes furious protest. A protest, albeit seething in the heads, fists and hearts of not very many, but striving to burn to the ground everything that is possible.