From the editorial office. The first round of elections of the President of Ukraine ended. As predicted by numerous experts, the head of the “Party of Regions” Viktor Yanukovych and Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko became the leaders. According to official information, the second round of elections should take place on February 7. Journalist Ruslan Kurbanov shared his vision of the results of the past Ukrainian elections with readers of the “Russian magazine”.

When communicating with a person in Ukraine, an underlying thought often appears: where does it come from? Donetsk? Kharkov? Kyiv? Or easier - from the east or from the west? Such a status of geography in Ukrainian politics, which will argue with Language. But this is not about the East and West, but about the Crimea Peninsula beloved by many of our compatriots.

Perversion, perversion (lat. Perversiō "turning") - deviation from the norm The year 2009 passed, and everyone who could already announced their lists of the main films of the past twelve months. And although it is too late to provide my own list, yet I would really like to share my thoughts with readers regarding the main cinematic works of the past year. At the same time, you should say a few words about the features of the name of the article.

Review of: Yu. I. Semenov. Political ("Asian") Method of production: the essence and place in the history of mankind and Russia. M.: The Center for New Publishing Technologies "Magic Key", 2008. 401 p. * * * Yuri Ivanovich Semenov is a well -known specialist in primitiveness. When I was a student, his book “How Humanity arose” [1] was included in historical faculties in the list of compulsory literature. Already in the 90s, it turned out that Yu. I.

What do bloggers need from Tatyana Dyachenko? Why are her memories published in a personal LiveJournal Devil, so popular? This can hardly be explained only by the fact that it was she who, as it is believed, was a drive belt between the wayward and alcohol -dependent Boris Yeltsin and the pool of the oligarchs, who ensured the victory of the “Russian Daragin” in the 1996 presidential election.

From the editorial office. The first round of elections of the President of Ukraine ended. As predicted by numerous experts, the head of the “Party of Regions” Viktor Yanukovych and Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko became the leaders. According to official information, the second round of elections should take place on February 7.

From the editorial office: January 19 came sad news. One of the most authoritative, but more importantly popular Americanists Anatoly Ivanovich Utkin did not become. However, it is known not only as the author of numerous works on the modern history of the United States of America, but also as a specialist in the history of Russia of the first half of the 20th century. The editors of the “Russian Journal” bring its condolences to the relatives and friends of Anatoly Ivanovich Utkin.

The creation of the North Caucasus Federal District, I think, is not ideal in terms of the terminological allocation of a difficult region into something separate from the image of the "South" of Russia. But this decision is understandable and explainable from the point of view of the desire to establish management of the complex sum of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

Aaron Zakharovich Steinberg (1891-1975), graduate of the University of Heidelberg (philosophical and law faculties), in 1919 he became a member of the Volfille Secretary-the free philosophical Academy [Association] (R.V. Ivanov-Raznik, K.A. Sunnerberg, Blok, Andrei Bely, K.S. Petrov-Vodkin and others). The history of Wolfila is one of the plots of the Steinberg memoir book, he dictated by him in the summer of 1971 (typewriter based on tape recordings is stored in the Jerusalem Archive).

Alexander Khloponin became the fifth or sixth figure, which, as the rumor claimed, began to consider the Kremlin as a representative of the president in the Caucasus. Immediately after Dmitry Medvedev’s voicing his initiative to introduce a post of Caucasus, experts and politicians rushed to guess who could become one. Vladimir Zhirinovsky suggested that Suleiman Kerimov or the now forgiven oligarch Mikhail Gutseriev could become this representative.

Despite the large share of the skepticism, which appeared in the media after the publication of information on the appointment of the former Krasnoyarsk governor “Main in the Caucasus”, Khloponin has a chance to at least somehow rectify the situation and even increase his own political capital. Chance - it is given only once Alexander Khloponin is not a specialist in the Caucasus, and it is unlikely that he had ever ever spent a significant amount of time in this region.

The first tour of the presidential elections in Ukraine did not bring anything unexpected. Predictable results were confirmed. In fact, the election campaign in Ukraine begins only now, after the first round. What has been before, in fact lasted the last few years. The main surprise that Tigipko is talking about a lot is, in fact, a surprise is not.