From the editorial office. Marat Gelman is a Russian art critic, publicist, political strategist, member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, founder of Marat Gelman Gallery, Director of the Center for Contemporary Art, Director of the Perm Museum of Contemporary Art. * * * Today we can say that in Russia a campaign for elections to the State Duma, and not for the presidential election, began . Of the presidential projects, only Skolkovo is one way or another aimed at the elections.

After the Russian President was preoccupied with the problem of domestic computer games, saying that they were “ are of great educational importance, and we can’t only rely on foreign developments all the time ”, giving an example the well-known domestic IL-2 Airmovik air system, his statement caused a noticeable gastronomic interest among interested parties.

From the editorial office. There are two eternal questions in Russia - "Who is to blame?" And "What to do?" We know, as you know, we have two troubles - fools and roads. But to the question "What to do?" There was no answer yet. However, it seems that certain shifts have been outlined in this direction. And they relate to the restructuring of the domestic economy, its transfer to innovative rails.

Today, May 24, 2010, Joseph Brodsky could turn 70 years old. This is even less than Anna Akhmatova was when he first came to her ... Among the most difficult and most hopeless deeds that can fall on a share of a writer, writing another apology to the great artist occupies one of the first places - it is easier to pretend that you do not love him.

What makes one or another education system successful? And what needs to be done to make it even better in 10 years? A report on this topic in the Higher School of Economics was made by Lord Michael Barber, senior partner of McKinji, a former assistant to the Prime Minister of Great Britain. The Lord tried to prove that all countries had about the same problems. However, this is not entirely true.

The day of the great Orthodox missionaries, the enlighteners of our ancestors of the Holy Equal -to -the -Apostles Cyril and Methodius, May 24, is the day of the namesake, that is, in other words, the name of the Holy Patriarch of Moscow and all of Rus' Cyril. He was tonsured into monasticism in honor of the Holy Equal -to -the -Apostles Cyril, the Enlightener of the Slavs, thanks to the mission of which the baptism of Rus' was then possible.