"Russian Journal": How would you appreciate the phenomenon of "all -coordinating" parties, that is, parties, in any way trying to attract as much of the electorate as possible? Is populism characteristic of them? Richard Gunter: Indeed, all -clearing parties today are a widespread phenomenon. But it is unlikely that all of them have populism. If their leaders consider it necessary, then such parties in search of sympathy of voters can resort to this instrument, but it will hardly be decisive.

In addition to three books about Dunno and his friends, Nikolai Nosov (from the famous and reprinted) composed the story "Vitya Maleev at school and at home." Of course, it is impossible to compare the epic about Dunno and the school story of Nosov, despite the fact that they were composed by the same talented children's writer.

"Russian Journal": Is Catch -ll Party a characteristic phenomenon for the Western world? Gleb Musikhin: In my opinion, all -closed parties are not a phenomenon characteristic of the West . The latest elections in the United States have shown that citizens of this country make a choice on the basis of political and ideological preferences.

Review of the book: Taylor Ch. A Secular Age. Cambridge, Ma: Harvard University Press, 2007. 874 p. * * * Taylor formulates one of the main issues of his book as follows: “ Why, say, in 1500, unbelief in God was so difficult, while in 2000 this disbelief seems to us something obvious and even inevitable? ” (P. 25). And really, why? First of all, we find out how the author understands the essence of secularization.

"Russian Journal": Is it possible to say that today “Catch -ll Parties” - “Parties of the whole people” - are a characteristic phenomenon for the Western world? Sergey Peregudov: I think to translate the term "Catch -ll Parties" as a "party of the whole people" would not be very correct. The literal translation of "Catch-all" means "grab all." These are parties that strive to become parties for the whole people.

As you know, in politics it is often important not only what is being done, but for why this is something done. Already initially the initiative, nominated by President Dmitry Medvedev, by changing the term of powers of the president and parliament, was more than controversial. To a large extent precisely because its implementation was required to change the constitution.

Review of the book: Political theory in the XX century: Collection of articles / under. Ed. A. Pavlova. - M. Publishing House "Territory of the Future", 2008. (Series "University Library of Alexander Pogorelsky"). - 416 p. * * * In the fall of 2008, Russian publishers demonstrated increased interest in political theory: in addition to the reviewed collection, several more books were simultaneously published in which an attempt was made to reflect the political reflection of the 20th century.

The article was written in collaboration with Eric Pozner - an employee of the law school of the University of Chicago. * * * Supporters of the newly elected President Barack Obama hope that he will reject a skeptical attitude to international law, characteristic of the Bush administration, and will be in European law. As a result, the United States will cross allegedly more enlightened practice from abroad. However, in reality, Europe’s commitment to international law is pure rhetoric.

The head of one of the largest American insurance companies, American Inerneshnl Group, determined his salary for two years in the amount of one dollar and at the same time abandoned all bonuses and payments. All top managers of the company followed his example. They say that the "great initiative" is thrown into a number of other large American corporations.

As expected, the summit of twenty leading states of the world in Washington did not lead to any results. The participants agreed only on the creation of a permanent forum of financial stability - a new site for negotiations on international financial issues. The idea that sounded on the forum is to develop new rules for regulating financial markets and calculating risks in itself is good.