German Sterligov receives guests in the village of Nizhne-Vasilievskoye, where he bought himself a chopped wooden house. He insists that we come to him in the early morning, and although the road is not at all distant, demands that we leave Moscow in two hours: “ Otherwise, you will be late. You are a woman! "Sterligov is known for not talking with journalists who wear trousers. Wet snow comes at night.

The struggle of writers for power is ridiculous, how funny the struggle of the eunuchs is for a place in the harem. There is no ideological meaning in it or bureaucratic power. In Soviet training films about civil defense, students of theater schools, working as statists, depicted victims of a nuclear-gas attack. Some of them then became an actor, but they did not stop being the statists in the school cinema.

From the editorial office. In early July, Barack Obama, the President of the United States, to Moscow should take a visit. In anticipation of this visit, the RG decided to turn to Modest Krerov and find out his vision of the prospects of Russian-American relations. Do we today rethink the results of the Cold War, how to interpret its end at all. Is America ready for the "reboot" of relations? What is standing at the Obama's upcoming visit?

Especially for the Russian magazine. Monologue Evgeny Gontmamer, head of the Center for Social Policy of the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a member of the Board of Incor (Institute of Modern Development), Professor GU-HSE * * * Today's crisis in my understanding in Russia began a long time ago - long before the moment when they started talking aloud. Let us recall the events of a ten -year ago, which we are commonly called default.

At the fracture of the eras, one curious thing always happens: the personal psychological features of the chief figure of this era, the system of his personality, as it were, are transformed into political reality and then separate from him, turning into a “style of the era”, “air of the era”.

The Putin style in this issue of Newsletter failed. On the one hand, the authors were so scattered to the sides that they did not argue, but feel too vast object. On the other hand, for each Putin is still hot and personally. It is easy to notice, like Evgeny Gontmamer , and Modest Kolrov , and Maxim Shevchenko involuntarily break into the memoir. (I consider this Putin's ability to impose a “factor of myself” to everyone, I consider it an important component of its Soft Power).

Graduates of Russian schools began to pass the exam. We will talk about what will come of it later - most likely in the fall, when it becomes clear how many young people will not receive certificates of maturity (they will not master two compulsory exams in the Russian language and mathematics; according to preliminary estimates, this is 100 thousand people).

In the text of Evgeny Gontmamer, fair reproaches in relation to power occupy a large place. He draws attention to the unrealized opportunities that the period of “obese years”, on the dominance in many directions of social development of the nomenclature and the bureaucratic apparatus, which, at best, does not cope and incompetent, and in the worst is obviously corruption. The almost insurmountable watershed between the position of Mr.

The text sent by Evgeny Gontmacher, apparently, was conceived as a polemic response to my intellectual investigation " Aesthetics of liberal sanitation ." The very first paragraph of the dough, where Putin’s words are quoted, “ an ideal option for the country would be a population of 500 million people are cited.” Thus, Mr.

The Great Muslim East is in the deepest and prolonged dream. The dream of his mind continues today to give birth to monsters, such as Arab dictators, fanatics-extremists and radicals-secretists. The viscosity of the consciousness of the traditional representative of this region, his immersion in the past, in the mythologized archaic do not allow today to talk about any prospects for modernization processes in this world. However, the East has not always been like that .