Today there are exactly five terrorist attacks that happened in Beslan. Considering the events in Beslan in September 2004 from the heights of the past years, you can find two important aspects that largely predetermine the development of the situation in the Caucasus and the attitude to them among ordinary Russians and the authorities. Firstly, despite all the tragedy and monstrousness of the attack in Beslan, he did not become for Russia those that would rally it into a single whole.

Sixty years after the end of World War II, the main intellectual efforts of mankind should be aimed at understanding , and not at condemnation , including such phenomena as Stalinism and Nazi National Socialism. Even the most good accusations should be based on scientific arguments. And you need to make an effort to adjust the simplified “black and white” picture of that time.

The results of the elections to the lower house of Japan's parliament on Sunday, August 30, turned out to be both predictable and sensational.

Religious science has carried out a difficult loss. On August 28, Alexander Nikolaevich Krasnikov died in the afternoon. Doctor of Philosophy, author of the fundamental dissertation "Methodology of Western religious studies of the second half of the XIX-XX centuries", associate professor of the Faculty of Faculty of Moscow State University, co-editor of the magazine "Religious".

Yesterday, on August 31, in the Press Center of Interfax, in preparation for the conference "Modern State and Global Security", the Briefing "State and Democracy in the new political season" was held.

Part two. LLC "Mauthausen" The idea of ​​creating a “new location” of the SS in Upper Austria was voiced by the opinionfuhrer of this department by Heinrich Himler in a speech at the stadium in Linz on March 22, 1938, that is, ten days after the failed Anschlus. In order to fulfill the wishes of his boss, the leadership of the SS in Berlin at the end of April 1938, a limited liability society (German. GmbH) called “German embankments and quarries” (German Dest) was created.

Ernst Nolte - a German historian and philosopher, born in 1923 and managed to learn from Martin Heidegger himself, gained international recognition and universal fame thanks to the book “Fascism in his era”, in which he defended the idea of ​​“generic fascism”. According to NOLT, fascism is not just one of the totalitarian regimes, but a special phenomenon, a reaction to technological progress and political changes.