The current initiative of Sergei Shoigu and the comrades on the introduction of a law punishing a criminal manner, the denial of the victory of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War, at first glance, looks anecdotal. After all, even the most ardent Russophobes never dared to say that it was not the Soviet Union, but Germany, in the Second World War. It is interesting whether the United Russia will be able to find at least one person who would affirm this.

From the editorial office. On the night of April 27, the head of the capital's Department of Internal Affairs of Tsaritsyno, Major Denis Evsyukov, made a massacre in the Moscow supermarket. This news stirred the Russian public space. We asked to evaluate and comment on public resonance to the famous left thinker Boris Kagarlitsky. * * * Russian magazine: How do you feel about the hype that has risen and does not subside around Major Evsyukov?

From the editorial office. In April of this year, the RG was visited by an outstanding British political philosopher, a professor of Cambridge University, a representative of the Cambridge School of History of Political Thought, John Dunn. Taking this opportunity, we talked with the professor of this about this - about urgent problems of modern political theory and, of course, learned from the British thinker about his attitude to the Russian tradition of political thinking.

From the editorial office. Very close to May 9 - a special holiday for Russia ... Everyone will be celebrated on this day ... or rest - who is in the country, and who and the TV at home calmly watch. And on TV they will show films. Of course, patriotic content. And, by the way, the Russian magazine just recently discussed this topic quite recently. Returning to the topic, we will build up the problem again, now focusing on a separate aspect of film patriotism - military cinema.

Review of: Dokins Richard, God as an illusion / Per. from English. N. Smelkova. - M.: Publishing House of Hummingbirds, 2008. - 560 p. (The publication was prepared with the support of the Dmitry Zimin Foundation "Dynasty") * * * Two hundred kilometers from London, on the banks of the Severn River, there is an old English town - Schusbury. On February 12, 1809, here, in the family of Dr. Robert Warren Darwin, the fifth of his children was born-the son of Charles.