"Russian Journal": Dear Oleg Vyacheslavovich, what do you think, what fate awaits global stock markets due to the fact that the state actively joined the process of their regulation? Does this mean that the minimum state intervention in the market activity, which has become a standard approach to this issue since the time of Reagan, has already gone into the past? Oleg Vyugin : The current financial crisis, of course, was the reason for growing control of the markets by the state.

There is no need to pretend that the Chinese do not care about US power - be it "hard" or "soft" - that could make it difficult for China to move forward. Today it is difficult to find a political or diplomatic problem facing China that does not appear to the Chinese to have an American origin. So why is China reacting so calmly?

"Russian Journal" : Andrei Afanasevich, it is known that you are a supporter of the "technocratic approach" to solving many economic, defense and social problems. Can this approach be implemented in modern Russia? What are you talking about in your recently released work? Andrei Kokoshin : Today, we should rather talk about a certain “ neotehtekracy ”, which, of course, should play a significant role in the development and implementation of a number of areas of state policy.

The reality of modern Ukrainian foreign policy lies in the fact that Ukraine will develop, aiming at alliances and coalitions with the New Europe, with the Baltic countries, with the Eastern European states that previously entered the organization of the Warsaw Treaty. Thus, Ukraine will approach the American pole of Europe than to the Old European. And the problem here is not in NATO, and not in the European Union - the pro -American or progerman version of Ukrainian geopolitical development.

In this electoral year, any candidate from the Republican Party is forced to start his campaign, holding in his mind eight years of republican in the White House. This fact itself is already a desire to elect the Democrat as president.

"Russian Journal": Is it possible to predict the actions of Barack Obama and John McCain as US President? Martin van Creveld: To some extent, yes. Unless something really dramatic happens - like another 9/11 - the new US president will focus on economic problems. Obama will most likely try to increase government influence over big business and increase taxes on the richest part of American society. McCain will try to save capitalism without resorting to such radical measures.

"Le Figaro": sometimes fiction coincides with reality or surpasses it. So it happened this weekend: the President of the IMF Dominic Stross-Kan will have to give explanations in connection with the extramarital connection that took place. What do you think about this mixing of personal public? Does this case remind you of the case of Levinsky and Bill Clinton? Oliver Stone : Yes, of course. Dominic Stross -Kank is a person whom I have with great respect. I have known him for a long time ...

The growth of Russia's influence in the foreign policy arena put a false dilemma in front of it: either a demonstration of his newly acquired power of the great power, or focus on the formation of his foreign policy mission. These two components - strength and mission - should be interconnected. Only in this case, Russia will have a foreign policy strategy. And the creation of such a strategy is our main task, the Russian Federation proceeds to the embodiment.

There was something like a “inter-European” that extends from the Baltic Sea to the space between the Black and Caspian seas and even affects the parts of Central Asia (Kazakhstan) between the European community and Russia. This is the intrauropier is politically too heterogeneous, but economically and military terms too weak to perform the functions of regional organizing force on its own.

Today, the question of territories often becomes the reason for redevelopment of borders. I would call this the process of new feudalization when small mono -ethnic states arise. This is an obvious movement back, and the process of fragmentation of states goes in parallel with the processes of globalization. The solution to territorial problems is a complex and painful process. It is very important that the countries choose a civilized way of the decision.

Now we can say quite clearly: Europe simply does not have a common foreign policy strategy towards Russia. European identity is still built on an anti-Russian basis. A significant part of modern Europe is yesterday's satellites of Russia. Their European identity is anti-Russian from the very beginning. The EU's priority task is to adapt the political cultures and self-awareness of these peoples to the pan-European project.

When, as a parallel of today's total financial collapse, they slip me the great depression of 1929, I begin to doubt everything. The supporting elements of the then crisis were the collapse of the securities market. At that time, Germany refused to pay reparations, Great Britain and France ceased to repay debts, then a chain reaction began. In the fall of 1929, inflation came to agrarian and agrarian-industrial countries.

The current financial crisis is not just the largest crisis of the global era (which began in 1993), but also the largest since the great depression. This is a crisis of "free trade", because the last 16 years the United States essentially changed paper for industrial goods (labor) and energy. Some time ago, it turned out that too many dollars accumulated in the world system-this is exactly what the "bubble" pumped up.

Today, Ukraine is at a crossroads. She, in fact, is a split state. Western Ukraine, Eastern Ukraine and Crimea are relatively clearly distinguished. They are characterized by various foreign policy priorities. In the west of Ukraine, historically closer to Poland, pro -European and Pronatovsky views prevail today. The East for objective historical reasons is closer to Russia.

Only the lazy does not speak about the problem of raiding today. Even children in the sandbox play the raiders. And the joke about the “Wolf and the Red Red Riding Hood”, when the wolf caught the girl and declares the verdict: “Well, hat, you didn’t want to merge in friendly, then we will unfilly absorbed!”, Deliciped the illusions of even those who considered the raiders the “business orderlies”. During the development of this phenomenon in our country, at least three waves of raiders passed.