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Editor's note

The regular annual part of our fascinating and not simple journey through life has come to the end and the New Year 2007 is coming. Let’s congratulate each other! We haven’t avoided disappointment bitterness but we have survived. The gained experience allows us to make mistakes with more confidence and less losses. And it makes us put ourselves more and more questions.
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Nikolai Pryanishnikov
The appropriation of history
Elena Zelentsova
The creative city
Linda Moss
Arctic Roll? Cultural Industries and Tourism Development in Russian Karelia: can it succeed?
Denis Kuznetsov
Museums in the Northern Dimension
Ildiko Lehtinen
Cultural Heritage and Identity
Olga Fishman
Tthe Reciprocal Stereotypes: from the experience of the international exhibition project
Oleg Kardash
Sorovskie Lakes: we are looking for successors
Alexander Dolgin
New Economy of Culture
Local Societies’ Funds – a New Kind of Russian Charitable Foundations
Konstantin Grouzdev
Two Parts of the World

Editor's note

Editor’s note Recently I had a chance to be a witness of one discussion at the conference. A highly respected sociologist tried to damp conference participants’ ardour on the issue of the day that is financing of culture according to its final result. What does your agony about the standards and special programme figures mean, who of the powers that be are interested in the polemics about “result in culture” meaning? – he asked. The informal culture exists and it will exist without any reforms. And the official sphere of culture has got the state order to organize leisure of the population.
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Irina Prokhorova
Broad lands of my country, or We are living without feeling the country…
Nikolai Pryanishnikov
Oxymoron of sustainable development
Elena Zelentsova
Social and cultural projection in a northern city
Ekaterina Gandrabura
Creative Partnership
Nailya Allahverdieva
Out Video_06.The 3-d International Video-Art Festival in Public Places
Alexander Mozhaev
Procedures of conducting public services ad campaigns for central and local authorities
The materials of the round-table “City and Social Security” (the conclusion)
Tatiana Ishmuratova
What is the LES?
Alexander Popov, Mikhail Nemtsev
Patriotism – self-identity or Remain oneself

Editor's note

The Second International Forum of the 60th parallel cities that has just taken place in Surgut is the main subject of the June number of the magazine. Many participants of the held discussions and meetings defined the meaning of this event as the point of assembling. Strategies of development, sum of technologies and information about existing or prospective resources of northern cities and territories can be gradually put together in the overall picture of life and future region that has not existed yet as a received political subdivision.
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The materials of the round-table of Heads of cities, social and political figures and experts “The City and Social Security”
Georgy Vizgalov
Mangasee Returns
Galina Lapteva
About Identity Crisis and Cultural Raw Material
Nikolay Nikishin
The Man and Chukot
Alexander Toschev
The Decisive Choice
Anah Glinska
Igarka: the place of power

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The topic that is on the cover of the magazine is relevant as never before during the times of culture development. “Let’s look whom are we suggested as an ideal for our money?” we say as consumers. What are cultural codes and sign constructions with the help of which intellectual and spiritual growth of the nation is provided? As official producers of notorious culture we keep silence perplexedly in answer to this question since we in a majority were busy with the reproduction of customary cultural forms, no more.
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Vladimir Dukelsky
The cultural hero is at the crossroads.
Alexander Popov
The symbols of the future or the strategy for the finding oneself.
Alexander Shaburov
About fetishes, bugaboos and mutual unconsciousness in the domestic culture.
Nika Garkalina
The entrance after the third ring is permitted.
How can you find your hero.
Vyacheslav Glazychev
The bitter taste of wit.
Tatyana Gafar, Alexei Scherbin
LEONARDO’S LESSONS.
Efim Rezvan
Our treasures.
The winter festival Hyperboreya-2006.