The antimonopoly policy in the field of education was discussed at the next meeting of the Russian Public Council for the Development of Education. The audience talked about the lack of normal competition between educational institutions, about the non -rights of state and non -state schools and universities, that the procedure for accreditation of universities should be simplified and changed. And also about how the problem of poor -quality legal education can be solved.

In the world of real policy of India, public life has become an attractive profession, a game of power and a business, built on how to win the elections and be elected .

From the editorial office. In order to evaluate the Big deal proposed by Timofem Bordachev, we turned to Jeffrey Munkoff, an American energy specialist in Eurasia from the Council on International Relations, and the author of the Energy Security of Eurasia. * * * Russian magazine: Do you think that Russia and the European Union (EU) are ready to overcome mutual distrust and take a step towards the alliance?

Russian magazine: Dear Nikita Alexandrovich, what are the main forecasts about the global economic crisis now nominated? Is it to expect Russia to continue or improve the main macroeconomic indicators? Nikita Krichevsky: The current situation in the world economic economy leaves less and less hopes for a quick resumption of growth. For example, the IMF believes that this year the global GDP will decrease by one percent.

On Monday, the Independent Gazeta reported that the right business party established the new discussion club "February 19". Leonid Gozman was elected chairman of the club. The new party platform is called upon to supplement the “right business” existing in the “right business” and the “Stolypin Club”, which was inherited by Boris Titov, inherited by “business Russia”. Between the clubs, a division of the spheres of competence should occur.

On Sunday, April 26, elections were held for the post of mayor of Sochi. This seemingly ordinary event (in the end, in Russia several thousand municipalities in which any elections are held annually!) Nevertheless attracted the attention of the whole country. What is the matter? And the casket, as they say, just opened.

Review of: Didier Eribon. Michelle Foucault. M.: Young Guard, 2008, 384 p. * * * As the reviewer wrote in the newspaper Le Monde : “ This biography has only one irreparable drawback: that it is a biography ... ”. Even in France, such authoritative intellectual biographies, the link to which has become mandatory in all works on this topic, there are only two. One is “Michelle Foucault” Didier Eribon, the second is “Jacques Lacan” Elizabeth Rudesino [1] .

The “rebooting” of relations between Russia and the USA is partly a tactical move, partly a qualitatively new relationship . In order for relations to gain a new clear form, time is needed. The new administration is largely different from the previous one. Barack Obama sets a new tone in everything that he does. So the future has other horizons than they were, say, a year ago or even last summer during the Russian-Georgian conflict, to which Washington reacted extremely negatively.

From the editorial office: In order to evaluate the Big deal project proposed by Timothy, we turned to Arkady Moshes, the head of the Russia -EU program, the Finnish Institute of International Relations. * * * Russian magazine : How realistic is the project proposed by Timofei Bordachev?