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Editor's note
Nice to meet you again! Summer vacations are over, and we are commencing into the new business year. If you like to subscribe to our journal for next year 2009, you can find all necessary information on the inside front cover. I highly appreciate your reflections, questions and articles. Together we become stronger! The main point of our concern remains the same: investigation of culture as way of life that is our present facing the future.
In the previous summer issue we presented a collection of analytic materials about the situation and perspectives of Russian higher education as the specific factor of the development of Russian intellectual strength. In this new issue, we touch theatre — it is a place for entertainment, consolation and education as well. The topic is very great, definitely, and the editor of the section Mikhail Nemtsev sharpens the problem by an energetic statement: for the vast majority of Russians “theatre” as such does not exist. Yet, if we live without theatre, do we miss anything by it?
We continue several publication projects. In this line we have an interview about dynasties, their meaning for life along with stories about dynasty studies. New articles about Waldorf seminar on health and pedagogic – this time we speak about the specificity of the 2nd seven years period in human life. Moreover, we have a story from the Great Patriotic War period (look Efim Rezvan’s “Five-Ended Star on the Quran”). I believe we also may offer more interesting pages.
By the way, do you remember your first theatre impressions? In my memory appears remembrance of “Rigoletto” by Verdi and funny self-made “Cinderella-style” shoes from school play…
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