Russian reality today discovers the confrontation of two logicians. One of them structures the world with the help of categories of benefit and needs and justifies the strategy of distrust and short -term minimization of costs. She warns any unification outside the situational coalitions and prescribes lobbying for private interests (“influence power”).

From the editor. Today in Russia the prospects for a possible constitutional reform are being actively discussed. about what discussions around the constitutional structure took place in Russia during the convening of the Constituent Assembly, and whether parallels can be drawn between those times and the present .

From the editorial office. The Russian Journal turned to Tatyana Stanovaya , the head of the analytical department of the Center for Political Technologies, with questions about what course will most likely choose Vladimir Putin after the victory in the March elections? Will he go to inclusion in the government of current oppositionists? Will the “movement of December 10” be held as a holistic political phenomenon until the summer of 2012? How realistic is constitutional reform today?