It is quite obvious that the results of the elections in Japan are the result of the crisis. In fact, Japanese voters are very conservative, only this time the critical attitude to the liberal-democratic party (LDPI) strongly increased. The fault of this is the irresponsibility of the party leadership to pensioners and the growth of unemployment among young people.

The main question with Iran, as Henry Kissinger noted, is whether Iran wants to be a nation or mission. In the case of President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, he is definitely a revolutionary mission. In the past three years, he himself announced this in the intriguing and at times eccentric public messages to America.

“... always in ambush, polite, but stubbornly, I am not in the herd and I am silent not in the choir. Lead all doors, speeches and reasons In my red tower in the center of the web ... " “... he is always ahead in scarlet silk on a pale horse We are knee -deep in the mud and throat in the fault And houses and bridges burn along our road I will be like you, you will be like him, we will be like everyone else ... " “... The time is gloomy. The holidays ended. Peace and peace ...

Today there is no longer a subject for discussion - the bottom of the crisis is passed or not. We not only reached the bottom, but also began to get out of it. According to the State Statistics Committee, for the second quarter of 2009, in relation to the first, industrial growth amounted to 7.4%. Two months ago, my colleagues in the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation wrote a letter to President Dmitry Medvedev.

Globalization is a process, not a certain result. And only in this sense does globalization continue. But the opposite effect is also observed - deglobalization . In the USA and in Europe, protectionist measures are strengthened in the field of trade, investment, immigration, as well as in regard to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The global economic crisis is still far from the end.

A funny topic that had to be written about; However, I can’t refuse to myself once again to think about such funny things. There is such a well -known fact: a person’s sexual behavior, unique and incomprehensible, as it seems to him, often depends on his social, class even coordinates, and - it changes in a strong way when we move from floor to floor.

From the editorial office. Not so long ago, from the lips of Russian ministers - Elvira Nabiullina and Alexei Kudrin - there were encouraging words that the Russian economy had passed the bottom of the crisis and that in the near future we could expect moderate growth. The Russian magazine asked Mikhail Leontyev, a well -known journalist and political scientist to comment on such statements.

In the Soviet consciousness, the word "operetta" was constantly replaced by the genre of musical comedy. And then: the stories of the counts, their mistresses and deceived, but such sneaking wives were terribly far from the realities of the Soviet people. The surviving rudiments of the former could still remember the past days. But what about the collective farmers, even among TVs, dudes and students of architectural, was there to all these Maritz, funny widows and bats?