From the editor. "Russian Journal" publishes the texts of speeches at a round table about the future - "Utopia and the authors of the future", which was held on June 13 as part of the fourth Moscow International Open Book Festival. The round table was organized by Russian Journal, Liberty.ru and Pushkin magazine. * * * I can hardly say anything about utopias, but I can say a few words about the future and the problems that we, as authors of the future, will have to face.

Yesterday, in the cinema club of the Russian magazine, the movie was watched by Dushan Makaveeva "VR: Mysteries of the organism" (1971), dedicated to Freudo-Marxist Wilhelm Reich and the sexual revolution of the late 1960s. By a fateful coincidence, he could not take part in the discussion of yesterday’s film, although my parameters gave me all the rights to this. But I can’t be silent, like a Leo Tolstoy and I can’t compete with the principles, like Nina Andreeva.

The presenters of some analytical programs complain that when it comes to the problem of Iran, the interest of the audience drops sharply, and people switch the TV to other channels. At first glance, Iran seems to be something very distant, incomprehensible, slurred, difficult to distinguish from homonymically similar Iraq. But, like any inattentive look, this look is very dangerous.

Review: Maslov S. S. collective farm Russia. The history and life of collective farms. Meaning for agriculture, peasantry, state. Nature, evolution and future. M.: Science, 2007. 302 p.

From the editorial office. The Russian Journal publishes the texts of performances at a round table about the future - “Utopia and the authors of the future”, which was held on June 13 as part of the fourth Moscow International Open Book Festival. The round table was organized by the "Russian magazine", "Liberti.ru" and the magazine "Pushkin". * * * I would like to polemize with the thesis of Konstantin Krylov.

Regulation on the international competition of emigrant poets Under the motto: "Emigration is a drop of the blood of the nation taken for analysis." * * * Dear poets! Friends and colleagues! As you all understand perfectly, not a single competition, including ours, is an absolutely objective assessment of your talents. However, the organizing committee and the jury of the competition with your help will try to do everything possible for the most objective attitude to your works.

From the editorial office. The State Department of the United States published its annual report " Trafficking in Persons Report ", devoting it to the slave trade. Who, how not Hillary Clinton to react to the event is best? * * * In 2001, twenty -year -old Oksana Rancheva left her house in Russia for the sake of, as she then believed, work as a translator in Cyprus.

From the editorial office. The Russian Journal publishes the texts of performances at a round table about the future - “Utopia and the authors of the future”, which was held on June 13 as part of the fourth Moscow International Open Book Festival. The round table was organized by the "Russian magazine", "Liberti.ru" and the magazine "Pushkin". * * * The penultimate speaker finally sounded the word “secularism”, which was indicated in the discussion program.

I want to report to the readers of Vedomosti about how events developed after the publication three months ago, dedicated to the activities of the Suslov of our days - Vladislav Surkov. This experience can be considered as an experiment designed to find out what is happening after you speak in print with the open criticism of a senior administration official.