From the editorial office. John Mirshaimer (born in 1947) is an American political scientist, historian. One of the leading foreign policy experts, professor of political sciences at the University of Chicago, is considered an unspoken intellectual leader in the movement of realists in the United States.

RG: What new threats of global security are possible in connection with the current economic crisis? A.S.: The crisis, more than ever, revealed the interdependence of the modern world, the fact that the state of affairs in one country from now inevitably affects the situation in another. I would like to give one example. During the Russian-Georgian war last summer, relations between Russia, the European Union and the United States were noticeably cooled.

The thought that I once prescribed with a small demon, namely, that Russian modernization is non -alternative both by methods and consequences - if you look from the 17th, gradually seizes the masses. Recently, the Levaki Buzgalin, the Seminar "Russia, which we lost", held the non -alternativeness of methods. As a result, it turned out that it was the very one that they lost that that was found in the 91st.

Any crisis, first of all, means a reassessment of values. What was valued will become unlevant, which was not valued - suddenly become valuable. We still do not know what will fall in price, what will increase, although we can assume. One thing is clear, “as before” it will never be. Attempts to return to the previous system, when "everything was good", or attempts to adapt to changes, will lead to disaster.

The middle class has a political potential that is extremely absurd to ignore. Historically, the middle class behaved differently. During the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte, the middle class actually supported him until the last moment. There were cases when the middle class was implacable in relation to the current government. A striking example is February 1917 in Russia, when it turned out that the Nicholas II regime has no support.

From the editorial office. The twelfth issue “RG is the theme of the week” over the past year, dedicated to national crisis management models, caused a serious discussion among intellectuals of not only domestic, but also Western ones. We return to this discussion and give the floor to the professor of the University of Emory, the invited professor of Harvard University, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Eurasian Network of Political Studies (ESPI) Thomas F. Remington.

The weekend ended, and with them the action to which more than 30 million people were focused. We are talking about the Oscar ceremony, which many call the moment of unity of all the inhabitants of the Earth - after all, art, as one of the current sovereigns of the Golden Figure stated, " in any manifestation, was and will always be our universal language of communication ." It is characteristic that these words do not belong to some American actress, but Spanka-Penelope Cruz.

The article by Boris Mezhuev “Chronicle of the failed climax” tells of some mysterious oddities, accompanying the promised continuation of the cult “perestroika” of the film “Assa”. It seems that the main problem here is not external, but internal. Sergei Soloviev is still a too creative figure to just remove the sequel fashionable in the postmodern era (or maybe even ordered by the expectants of the new “thaw”).