Putin spoke at the forum in St. Petersburg and said that we need a "national model of democracy and civil society." That is - we decided to go in the second circle. There was already “sovereign democracy” at its second term. This causes a dumb. How?! Just like that, brazenly, in the second circle? Moreover, in a new situation, when people already understand the price of this rhetoric well.

But the less satisfactory, the spread of the opposition are: there is always a risk that the presses on them will be gathering almost as much as the participants, and the success of the enterprise is measured by the activity of not only protesting, but also protective bodies. But such meetings have a more specific goal than the triumph of justice in the country of blue uniforms, and it is possible to check how personally and far you are ready to walk with the opposition march.

From the author. I met Oleg Kozlovsky in 2006 at the picket near the art. The story of the crippled soldier Sychev thundered, and we demanded the resignation of Sergey Ivanov, the then Minister of Defense. After a couple of years, there they dispersed the picket in support of Oleg, buried in the army for Medvedev’s elections. For many years, Kozlovsky became the leader in defense, drove the marches of disagreements, traveled through revolutions, he was regularly detained and arrested.

The appearance of the folklore saga of Alexander Grigorenko "Mabat" ("New World" No. 8, 2011) about the Nenets hero -lone in the short list of "Big Book" - the event, although expected (there were benevolent reviews of a number of critics), but still quite unusual. The following can be assumed: in connection with the accumulation of deep socio-cultures of shifts in European culture, the tragedy in modern realistic literature is impossible and therefore changes the genre frame.

The movement of the capitals of a state (if they took place) is a subject of study of not only political or historical geography, but also methageography - a special research region at the junction of science, literature, philosophy and art. Within the framework of metageography, the deep, ontological patterns of the movement of the capitals are studied and comprehended, associated with the specifics of the geographical imagination, manifested and manifesting itself in a certain territory.