The removal of Lenin’s Tomb could provide investors a sense that Russia is trying to break with its communist past. This is bound to attract media attention. Since September of 2008, the main story in the West is how the financial meltdown has led to the abandonment for some long held free market principles in the West.

On the 1st of October the UN Security Council is gathering to once again discuss the proposed sanctions on Iran. Most of the previous meetings regarding the issue of Iran’s nuclear program have been a complete failure, since Russia and China preferred to stick to diplomacy. This session of the UNSC, however, may have a less expected outcome.

The situation around the American anti-missile system in Europe is strikingly reminiscent of that with Reagan’s “Zero Option”, when in 1981 the plan for deploying missiles itself became a subject for bargaining between the two superpowers. At that time the USSR was offered to remove the SS-20 missiles from its European part in exchange for nothing – the USA scrapping plans to install Pershing II missiles.

President Dmitry Medvedev, in a clear bid to separate himself from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, on Tuesday outlined a manifesto of change for Russia that is deeply critical of the system Mr. Putin has created. Mr. Medvedev also said he could run again for the presidency in 2012, when Mr. Putin would be allowed under Russia's constitution to retake the job. "I don't exclude anything," Mr. Medvedev told the Valdai club, a group of international and domestic academics and journalists

In a way the USA has won the world hegemony some politicians like to talk about - it seems not only Americans, but the whole world is going to vote on November 4^th.   Hardly anything else, apart from the recent military action in Caucasus and the financial crisis, receives as much attention in the mass media, as the presidential race between McCaine and Obama. The Big Day is nearing, but who gets the prize is still not clear.

Let ’ s say we didn ’ t use to vote . Let’s say – elections are not in our tradition. After letting pass our election at ease Russian students suddenly fell for new American President Battle pretty seriously.

On August 6^th the Georgian forces wiped out Tshinvali, the capitol of South Ossetia. That’s all there is to it. What’s left are ruins, Russian peacekeepers killed and more than 2 thousand innocent lives lost. Hearing this I went straightly to the CNN web page and what did I see on the World news? – NOTHING.

Present day Russia and what it was in the 1990s have recently been thoroughly compared. And until the last few years Russia’s public opinion was likely to criticize the first period of post-Soviet existence and praise the present state of affaires. Now we often come across such ideas that there were some positive moments (who would have thought?) during the Lihie 90s in Russia, what used to occupy a central position but now have been driven away from the main scene.

They say, that Russia is losing the West. That Russia suffers from the absence of friends among other countries. They say that it's a problem. I don't really think, that the problem of "loosing the West" is a business of one man, of one russian politician. The grounds are different, and it's silly to think, that once someone pushed the button - and at once we became a lot of enemies and we lost the West.

This question does really worry Russian people. Maybe at first sight it's unlikely to say whether our civilians are interested in politics or not. Why? Because of the part we played in this life. Every time something happens in Russian politics’ world, we learn it from TV news or newspapers. Nobody ever asks us about our opinion. Then how can we suppose the future of our country?