From the editorial office. February 1, 2011 marks the 80th anniversary of the birth of the first President of Russia Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin. The anniversary is already celebrated. In blogs, in the journalistic texts of Yeltsin, they remember with special feelings - albeit different - but always very bright. In memory of this state figure, RSA opens a discussion about the role of the first president in the formation of new Russia.

From the editorial office. February 1, 2011 marks the 80th anniversary of the birth of the first President of Russia Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin. The anniversary is already celebrated. In blogs, in the journalistic texts of Yeltsin, they remember with special feelings - albeit different - but always very bright. In memory of this state figure, RSA opens a discussion about the role of the first president in the formation of new Russia. * * * I never respected and never loved this person.

From the editorial office . On February 2, 2011, in the Moscow President-Othele, as part of the anniversary of the first president of Russia Boris Yeltsin, the Boris Yeltsin and New Russia conference was held. The Russian Journal publishes a fragment of the report of the President of the Effective Policy Fund Gleb Pavlovsky, which was read at this conference. * * * Only recently, Dmitry Medvedev spoke of Russia as a “young country”, which is only 20 years old.

From the editorial office. February 1, 2011 marks the 80th anniversary of the birth of the first President of Russia Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin. The anniversary is already celebrated. In blogs, in the journalistic texts of Yeltsin, they remember with special feelings - albeit different - but always very bright. In memory of this state figure, RSA opens a discussion about the role of the first president in the formation of new Russia.

The Russian ruling elite does not have a coherent concept of national policy, but there is a certain set of prejudices inherited since the Soviet era, and prejudices that make the state approach to the national sphere very contradictory. I will name only two main contradictions of the Soviet and Russian national policy. The first contradiction is between the idea of ​​a single political nation and the principle of the multinational state.