From the editor of RG . I asked my old friend and mentor Dmitry Baram to tell about his very winding history of political beliefs over the past twenty years, which I turned out to be an involuntary witness. Dima was the creator and leader of the circle of Russian philosophy “Chronicler”, which has existed since October 1987 at the Department of the History of the Philosophy of the Peoples of the USSR Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University.

I read the article by Gleb Pavlovsky in the "Expert". Good article, many interesting thoughts. Some could also be developed. American politics now, of course, is skidding with terrible force. The main problem of America is the Cold War won, the United States does not know at all what to do with this wealth.

From the editorial office. Not so long ago, the text of Alexander Morozov appeared on the pages of the “Russian magazine” , in which it was about the need for the emergence of a new Medvedev majority. But what is the "Pro -Putin majority"? What is its nature? This is reflected by Vyacheslav Glazychev, General Director of the publishing house "Europe".

6800 authors. 5 annuals. "RG-workers' notebooks." "Newsletter". "Pushkin". Almost 7.2 million words. No, the monkeys were conceived not in the year of the monkey. But the monkey retained nature and carried through all the genetic crossroads, annually confirming the triumph of Darwin. Whatever the grimaces look like? Reloading, still the initial instincts took their own.

For the first time in Russian history, the figure of Putin realized a national consensus not in the utopia of revolutionary hopes, but in the practice of a sustainable institutionalized majority. But the experience of the twentieth century does not allow this majority to again hand over their sovereignty without conditions. The conditions set by Putin by the majority are institutional. Most monitors the continuation of the fight between institutes and substitutes.

Review of: David Green. Return to civil society. Social security without state participation. M.: New Publishing House, 2009. 220 p. * * * The ratio of the state and civil society is one of the fundamental problems of political theory and modern politics. Different political traditions give opposite answers to the question of where the state should end and the area of ​​liability of civil society should begin.

The two -day visit of Barack Obama to Moscow is recognized in America unsuccessful. This converges the publications of all directions: the flagship of the liberalism of the New York Times , the quotadel of neoconservatism The Weekly Standard , the outpost of the realism of The National Interest .

The tour of the owner of the real world glory of the dance theater from the modest German town of Wuppertal came for a very sad time for fans of new art forms and just the world community. Two weeks before the Moscow Chekhov festival, there was no brilliant Pina Baush.

American director Sam Reimi, who specializes in horror films and shot a trilogy about Spider -Man, created a new picture - “Take me to hell”. In this tape, everything is built on fears from which the dust was not cleaned for a long time more than seventy years ago, but these fears are deeply rooted in the collective unconscious viewer. The great depression of the 1930s shocked the foundations of the American state, giving up part of their citizens not just in a figure sense.