On Monday, July 12, the Tagansky district court of the city of Moscow recognized the ex-director of the A.D. Museum Sakharov Yuri Samodurov and the ex-wizard of the latest trends of the Tretyakov Gallery Andrei Erofeev (brother of the writer Viktor Erofeev) guilty of insulting religious feelings. They were “injured” for organizing the exhibition “Forbidden Art - 2006”, which was held from March 7 to March 31, 2007 in a public center on an earthen shaft.

The trial of the curators of “forbidden art” posed two big questions: the boundaries of the artist’s self -expression and the boundaries of their permissible judicial persecution by the state. The decision of the court, although it did not satisfy many (curators, thank God, were not imprisoned, but were convicted under the political article for “inciting”, and not by civilian for “hooliganism”, as it would be more reasonable), in any case, leaves space for discussion.

From the editorial office. For the second year in a row, the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation has been holding a “hot line” for the exam. The observer of the “Russian magazine” asked the member of the Public Chamber Lyubov Dukhanin, how this “hot line” differs from last year, which issues more worry more and whether legal ways to combat the violations reported by the authors of the calls. * * * Lyubov Dukhanin: In the past and this year, we set two tasks for ourselves.

From the editorial office. Interview with the Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Education by the Doctor of Philosophy, corresponding member of the RAO Oleg Smolin (Communist Party faction), we owe primarily to French researchers of the reform of Russian education, its consequences in the long term; They agreed on the meeting.

From the editorial office. Nationalism in Russia has a fairly negative image, the result of which is the generally suspicious attitude of society towards those who position themselves as a nationalist. This is the heritage of the Soviet era when nationalism was identified with something dark and unpleasant, with something that prevented the "building of communism." However, with the collapse of the USSR, the situation in this area has not particularly changed.

Rosobrnadzor sums up the results of the first wave of the exam. This year, 878 thousand 664 graduates were handed over to a single state exam. This is 100 thousand less than last year. The exam was carried out in 14 subjects in all constituent entities of the Russian Federation and in 52 foreign states. 8,676 examination points worked.