In Ukraine, for many years, there has been an idea of ​​the CIS as a form of a "civilized divorce", which has already exhausted itself. This idea is supported by the country's leadership and is carried out not only and not so much through semantic argument as through intonation. In Ukrainian politics, as in politics, for example, Germany, many things are transmitted not by words or even with the eyes, but by “winking”.

Review of: Vasily Yern. Born in the USSR. M.: Ad Marginem, 2007. 240 p. * * * The translation of the book of the Romanian philosopher and critic of Vasily Ern "Born in the USSR" was published about a year ago. It is enough year to understand that in Russia the book is not destined to repeat the success of home publication (in Romania, the author was awarded two national awards for a successful debut and gained quite wide fame).

"Russian Journal": Yaroslav Viktorovich, of all organizations that are engaged in Russia in Russia, "Memorial" is the largest. In your opinion, when creating this organization, was the task of forming a national memory policy? Yaroslav Leontyev: Maybe literally in this formulation the task was not set. But, of course, it was implied, and I think that a de facto question so, of course, can be de facto.

Russia needs its own perpetuating program for the memory of the victims of the Holodomor. Kuban, Nizhny Volga, almost the entire North Caucasus, Altai, Omsk region were very much affected by the famine of the 1930s. The very fact of the development and implementation of such a program would clearly show that there was no genocide of the Ukrainian people, but there was genocide from the Bolsheviks of almost all the peoples of the Soviet Union, which could oppose the actions of the regime.

Back in the mid-1990s, assessing the origins of the “Asian economic miracle,” the famous American economist Paul Krugman noted: “Growth in Asia was more a matter of perspiration than inspiration—people putting more effort into work than crazy .

The White Gateks announced the creation of their own trade union. "The trade union of office and managerial personnel" - until recently, it was difficult to imagine such a phrase. The trade union has always been represented by a kind of working education that has at its disposal a sufficient number of helmets for knocking on the humpbacked bridge near the Government House.

As progressives, we can consider the new economic team of the elected President Obama from two points of view. Or he disappointed us, gathering a group working with Clinton - the very people who brought us the abolition of state control, which led to financial collapse; Financial conservatives, who in the 1990s considered the budget balance more important than the restoration of state institutions.

In the last decade, in the space of Russian geopolitical discourse, to one degree or another, the idea of ​​limitrophs as territories separating from each other large historically established ethnocultural regions - civilizations - is approved. In this regard, I would like to state my own view of the composition and structure of limitrophic (inter -civilizational) lands of the Old World.

The seventh congress of filmmakers was preceded by a long internal struggle. The powers of the chairman and the board of the UK, elected at the VI Congress and after it, expired in the fall of 2007, but all the attempts of filmmakers to find out the date of the new congress stumbled upon the wall of silence.