From the editorial office. Thanks to the recent elections in the Republic of Moldova among domestic political experts, a discussion was once again flared up, lasting a long time, about Russia's policy regarding the CIS.

Twenty years ago, not only the Berlin wall collapsed, but also the citadel of ideology, which restrained the waves of subconscious superstitions and fears in society. What was 1989 for our compatriots? According to eyewitnesses, it was a time when it was possible to believe in anything. “ It was an explosion, it was a boom. Everything that could not be discussed was on the surface.

1 In 1989, the people, previously called the "Soviet", starred. The drift began a little earlier, around 1985, but it was a drift by unwinding an anchor chain. Until 1989, society itself could not affect the "agenda." His expectations poured into the forms created by the CPSU Central Committee.

Last fall (Solzhenitsyn just died) Natalya Dmitrievna, his widow, received a special prize “For Honor and Dignity” on a “big book”. She then said the right things: it is not known how the writer would react to this award, and although she is grateful, the honor and dignity-actually speaking, the natural manifestations of any person, and reward them with some special prizes is a little strange. And here Yuri Lyubimov climbed the stage. And he told two tales about Solzhenitsyn.

Who did not lay the last pants to redeem the Bukinist PSS Marx and Engels in 1980 in the tiny store, did not drag the ligaments of the books in the icy palms, did not load these packs in three trams of the Red-Zavod depot, did not arrange ice from the frost on the old grandfathers, did not fly to the cobble To dial water, warm tea (what coffee?!), I did not immediately reveal 46 volumes, then the manuscripts of Capital did not sit until the very early morning and completely happy did not walk on