With the end of the “Putin decade”, the period of ideological uncertainty is also completed, which to a large extent characterized the era. On the eve of a deep confrontation on key issues of Russian, not only politics - life structure. In this confrontation, the Kremlin “towers” ​​will be completely not important, and politicians will be forced to determine who they represent socially and ideologically. This does not mean that politicians will express the interests of classes or classes.

From the editorial office. Samuel Charap - Director of Russian Programs of the Center for American Progress. This center some time ago prepared a report for the Obama administration, which is a presentation of a strategy for the US policy against Russia. RG asked Samuel Charp with his vision of the results of the decade of Putin's stay in power. * * * Russian magazine: Dear Mr. Charap, in your opinion, the answer to the question is who IS Mr Putin ? - Today is the same as 10 years ago?

Since 1989, I really wanted and still could not watch Alexander and Kaidanovsky “Guest” based on two short stories of Borges at once - “Three versions of the betrayal of Judas” and “Gospel of Mark”. It seems that, along with the thesis of the same director of 1983, the "Garden" (along the "Garden of Distributing Paths") are the two only adaptations of Borges in our cinema.

Review of: Victor Berdinsky. Craft of a historian in Russia. M.: New Literary Review, 2009. 608 p. * * * Too often, Russian historians had to tear off the gaze from the book roots and think about what morality follows from everything that comes outside the window.

From the editorial office. Not so long ago, a discussion of the results of the decade from the day Vladimir Putin came to power took place on the pages of the “Russian magazine” . Today we give the floor to a foreign observer - Adrian Pabst, professor of political science of Kent University (Great Britain), and a representative of the intellectual movement of Red Tori . * * * From the very beginning of our narrative, it is worth emphasizing - for (cars) a portrait of Mr.

The cultural map of the European summer has not been changing its outlines for a long time. Franco -speaking world - at the festival in Avignon, English -speaking in Edinburgh, Germans in Salzburg. Like any division, this is more than conditional. Melomanians have no language problems, and operas still occupy the most important place at all festivals. And progress allows you to set credits in two languages ​​at once, what are the barriers here?

From the editorial office. Where does Europe end? What main difficulties interfere with the establishment of relations between Russia and the EU? Do the Euroiconitive of President Medvedev have prospects? RSA decided to ask about this from the Polish political scientist Alexander Smolyar, the head of the Foundation Stefan Batoria (Warsaw). * * * Russian magazine: Dear Mr.

In the USA, in the family estate of the Kennedy family, in Hayannis Port, President John Kennedy, Senator Edward Kennedy, died in Hayannis Port. His family announced the death of a 77-year-old senator: “ We have lost the uninhabited center of our family and the light of the joy of our family, but the inspiration of his faith, optimism and perseverance will always live in our hearts.