Perhaps there is probably no direct and unambiguous answer to the question of which in the post -Soviet space they want to see Russia. Any post -Soviet country will demonstrate a whole spectrum of completely different answers to this question - for the most part, depending on the place of the responding in the political and social hierarchy.

After watching the proposals of philosophy of American universities, one can find such courses as “philosophy of law”, “philosophy of art”, “philosophy of science”, “philosophy of religion” and many other objects that make up our world. This makes sense.

Of all the terrifying and deploying numbers that come from the world of newspapers - a sharp reduction in circulations, dizzying income falls, growing debts, financial losses - not one cuts off as an inexorable march of abbreviations and absorptions. According to the Paper blog data Cuts , newspapers lost 15.974 jobs in 2008 and another 10,000 seats in the first half of 2009.

The role of a missionary is the role of the eternal other, and, not only in the secular environment, but also among the church. The reason for this is rooted in the fact that the existence of a missionary passes, at the same time, in two worlds and two languages. A whole set of paradoxes is associated with this duality, which question the missionary’s figure and at the same time are the reason for its necessity.

If a few years ago it became known that a magazine about books comparable to “London Review of Books” or “New York Review of Books” would be published in Russia, one could laugh into the person who would put forward a similar proposal. Yes, it would be nice to build a stone bridge through a pond who argues. Yes, only where is the Russian semi -colonial intellectual life, and where are magazines about books.

Now Hunter Thompson seems to us a sort of heklberry Finn, stubbornly walking along a curve path of up to 68 years. It was a birth rebel, upbringing rebel and a rebel, as it is now customary to express it, "in life." In addition to the immoderate tasting of alcohol, psychotropic drugs and entering various bindings, which, as a rule, ended up the call of cops, the shark Hunt was still engaged in politics.

Our state from time to time is accepted to “educate” the entrepreneurial class. It requires him “social responsibility”, then “civilization”, then “disinterested philanthropy”, then suddenly calls to invest in the domestic economy, forgetting about the Swiss banks and Caribbean offshores. All this official rhetoric looks as unnatural as if a gray -haired colonel with military orders on his chest began to rant about the benefits of pacifism in the officer club.