War gives rise to language - but now it is a language that does not fundamentally speak of a war. Or, more precisely, he excludes the war with clarification, always substituting in its place something else, as if more scientific, expert and, most importantly, not so terrible. Events in South Ossetia cannot be presented as the "internal business" of Russia. This is not an economic dispute and not a counter -terrorism operation.

The initial excitement around the news about the creation of a new faculty at Moscow State University, which arose after Kommersant published the article " Moscow State University ", has drove a little.

The Russian human rights community represented by the Commissioner for Human Rights Vladimir Lukin advocated the creation of an international tribunal for "responsible for mass killings in the conflict zone." The initiative, on the one hand, is good, because Saakashvili and his team, who untied the bloody war, must be judged and they must answer for the deed. And on the other hand - useless.