From the editorial office. Conversation of the editorial office of the "Russian magazine" with Samu Em Charp Om , director Russian programs of the Center for American Progress S ). This center some time ago prepared a report for the Obama administration, which is a presentation of a strategy for US policy in relations and Russia . * * * Russian magazine: Dear Mr. Charap, to what extent is the political regime of the Putin -Medvedev tandem based on a consensus in Russian society?

Past early elections in the Republic of Moldova, after April events, are forced to attract attention again. The situation in the voting results is repeated almost exactly the opposite.

Vladimir Moshegov made an angry rebuke to the late Huntington, who dared to assume the existence of a certain Orthodox civilization. Like, Huntington said about the “Orthodox civilization”, we agreed - and began, along with Patriarch Kirill, to create a clerical republic with the Russian Orthodox Church instead of the CPSU. Huntington was mistaken, of course, in many ways.

There was a word in the beginning, and God had a word, and God was a word Gospels from John (John 1; 1) “Damn it, what would I have done after that with the one who was the first to make God!” Hang it little on a bitter aspen. - There would be no civilization at all if they had not made God invented ... And there would be no cognac. But you still have to take cognac. F.

The Communist Party of Moldova received fewer votes in extraordinary parliamentary elections than in the three previous elections to parliament and will not be able, as previous 8 years, to elect the president and form the government. At least, independently, without the participation of those political forces for which Bucharest is more significant than the opinions of Russia, Ukraine and other partners of Moldova in the CIS.

On July 3, the OSCE parliamentary Assembly in its Vilnius resolution completely equalized the roles of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany in the unleashing of World War II. At the same time, Nazi crimes were equal to the crimes of Stalinism. The resolution also calls on to make on August 23 in the afternoon of memory to all the victims of Stalinism and Nazism. It was on this day, in 1939, that the USSR and Germany signed a non -aggression pact.

From the editor. Not long ago, a critical article by Vladimir Mozhegov about Samuel Huntington and his thesis about “Orthodox civilization” was published on the pages of Russian Journal. RJ brings to the attention of readers the text of Huntington himself, reflecting on what the clash of civilizations could mean for Russia. This material represents the abstract of his speech at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry, which took place in January 1995.

While I was a little absent in Russia, the American sociological service of The Pew Research published the results of the annual global public opinion poll, according to which (who would have thought!) It once again turned out that the image of the United States is improving, and the rating of the image of Russia (or what other crap) again rolled over the edge of the table, or got into the net, or flew out Fields.