In the spring of this year, a group of scientists was notified of the achievement of their colleague, an employee of the University of California Knudsen, who published a description of a new variety of lichen bright orange. He was lucky enough to find him back in 2007 on the island of Santa Rosa (in California), but only in March 2009 he published materials, and also explained his choice of name - “ Caloplaca Obamae ” -“ Obama lichen ”!

Review of: Mikhail Mayatsky. Resort Europe. M.: Ad Marginem, 2009. 176 p. * * * The book of Mikhail Mayatsky “Resort Europe” is a collection of 19 small essays, written on occasion, sometimes directly, and sometimes quite conditionally connected by the theme of the “resort of Europe”.

This spring, a group of scientists was notified of the achievement of their colleague, an employee of the University of California, Knudsen, who published a description of a new variety of bright orange lichen. He was lucky enough to find it back in 2007 on Santa Rosa Island (in California), but it was only in March 2009 that he published materials and also explained his choice of name - “ Caloplaca obamae ” - “Obama lichen”!

From the editorial office. The Russian Journal represents the reader of an interview with Schmuel Eisenstadt - an outstanding Israeli sociologist, a sociology professor of a Jewish University in Jerusalem, Harvard and London School of Economics, a member of the American Academy of Science and Art and Israeli Academy of Sciences. * * * Russian magazine: Dear Mr. Eisenstadt, what political model were the Western, primarily American, politicians during the policy of the spread of democracy?

From the editorial office. The other day, during the Yaroslavl Forum, Vladislav Surkov again actualized the term "sovereign democracy." RG returns to the discussion about the sovereignty, begun by Vadim Tsymbursky, the most of the text of which is completely devoted to the analysis of the concept of “sovereign democracy”. The theses of Tsymbursky are disputed by the philosopher and political analyst Mikhail Remizov. The first part of the text of the Tsymburg. See here .

From the editorial office. On September 21, 2009, a discussion on the topic "Is the post -Curular world will take place in the" Russian Institute "?" On the eve of the discussion, the Russian Journal offers readers an article by one of the main participants in the upcoming discussion - Pavel Kostylev, senior researcher at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov.

From the editorial office. Continuation of a "dispute about sovereignty." The first part see here . * * * "Supreme" or "property"? Here, in such ordinary cases of recognition of the “variety of aspects”, could be completed. But this clearly would not correspond to the spirit of the article under discussion, which - we have already talked about this - is taking a radical solution to the problem under consideration. Or it is better to say - overcoming the problem in its former form.

Ro addressed me with questions that Medvedev could wish on his birthday. http://www.rus-obr.ru/opinions/4081 I said the following. Our president objectively became the center of socio-political transformations in the system, their main initiator.

An exclusive interview with Shmuel Eisenstadt was published on the Russian Journal. In this regard, I would like to say about this without exaggeration of several introductory words outstanding scientist. Israeli sociologist Shmuel Eisenstadt (born 1923, Warsaw) is considered one of the founders of a comparative analysis of civilizations. With his works, he made a major contribution to comparative cultural sociology.