The economic crisis did not strengthen power in Russia. The experience of many countries shows that during the crisis, citizens tend to expect more from the government than in a calm time, and agree to delegate more authority to the government. On the other hand, the Putin model was based on the concentration of money in the hands of the federal center: with this money, the consent of the elites to reduce their role was bought.

Very soon, a new domestic blockbuster, a Russian-Swedish action movie (having,, however, Hong Kong origin), with a fair amount of a share of a comedic element-“hot news”, starts at the box office. However, for observers and a certain caste of people, which one domestic publicist dubbed “dog handlers”, the show took place just the other day.

From the editorial office. This is the end of the text of George Knabe, published some time ago on RJ. * * * Last 2008, exactly 40 years have been performed since the Sorbonne events of May 1968. Many press organs, publications in the field of politics and culture in Russia and abroad celebrated these decades as expiring, but in themselves a historically unified, albeit dual period.

In India, of course, there is a layer of intellectuals, which can be compared with the Russian intelligentsia. However, I would share these two concepts. In my opinion, the concept of “intelligentsia” refers to people involved in modern professions as teachers, doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc. And the social class of intellectuals is only part of the intelligentsia.

“ State corporations have become the instrument that made it possible to realize the needs of many strategic sectors of the economy in state investigations against the background of the state’s inability to be an effective investor, as well as qualified to dispose of invested funds .” These are the words of Sergey Chemezov, the head of Rostechnologies - one of the seven Russian state corporations. It is clear that the head of the state corporation cannot be objective.

Maximilian Rybel, almost forty years ago, published the works of Marx and Engels, dedicated to the “Russian issue”, admitted that the authors of these texts are very consistent: “ From the beginning of their career (at first as radical democrats, later as revolutionary communists) and, until the end of his life, Marx and Engels fought on Russian absolutism, indulging in this struggle with passion, not without reason called Russophobia ”(Marx/Engels: Die Russische Kommune.