Any force majeure is always a good reason to reconsider the agenda and do work on mistakes. And the double terrorist attack in the Moscow metro was also a shock, a “bloody wake” from a lethargic sleep, into which the country has plunged recently. However, it is understandable. After the last major attack by terrorists in Beslan, about six years old, and many believed that everything was already over.

From the editorial office. Richard Sakva is a British historian and political scientist, a professor of Russian and European politics at the school of international relations of the University of Kent (Great Britain), the author of a number of monographs in modern history of Russia, including the monograph “The Quality of Freedom: Khodorkovsky, Putin and the Yukos Affair”.

Now you no longer need to be a large -wound analyst and insider to note the radical political processes that are going in the country. The administration, which two years before the end of the presidency of Dmitry Medvedev, is still called “new”, conducts a significant liberalization of the political system, or rather, the country's political climate. The “political climate” for the Russian public is traditionally more important than the political system - nothing can be done here.

Terror, especially with mass victims in the capital and the use of suicide bombers, is, by definition, a means of political communication. Even when it does not have a clearly expressed form of blackmail, i.e. when so -called The "requirements" of the organizers are not announced. This abstract can even enhance the communicative effect, since the object of the attack is not the other actions of the state, but the very fact of its existence.

His surname is translated as "the son of sin." And indeed, sins on him were unmeasured. Leadership of mass repressions. Torture Genocide. For any of them, any court guarantees the death penalty. It seems that the carrier of all these vices was an absolute evil. In fact, everything was much worse. Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria was well aware that he was doing an wrong business. He even tried to minimize violence.

Terrorist acts are addressed not only to power. They are addressed to everyone and personally to me. This thought, at first glance, came to me as soon as I found out that I could not quickly get to the subway from the south-west of Moscow to the Institute of Philosophy at the Volkhonka, where I had to give a lecture to students. I understood that my problems would not be compared with others and that nothing would happen from if I miss this lecture.