The subject of the issue is “Russia is ill: doctors and diagnosticians”. There are many who are willing to give diagnosis, both inside and outside of Russia. Where does such a desire stem from? Who has the right to be a diagnostician? What does "healthy society" mean? These and other questions are answered by the following experts: Bernard-Henri Lévy – a French philosopher, and political journalist; Thomas Szasz – a leading activist of the anti-psychiatric movement; Talal Asad – a professor at the New York University; Vladislav Inozemtsev – an economist and political scientist; Mikhail Fedorov – Chairman of the Council on Assisting the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights Institutions under the President of the RF; Ella Pamfilova – a Russian public figure; Dmitry Butrin – the head of the department at the “Kommersant” newspaper.
Bernard-Henri Le'vy
THE TOTALITARIAN DESIRE “TO PROVIDE TREATMENT”
Dmitry Butrin
BIOLOGICAL METAPHORS FOR SOCIETY’S PROBLEMS ARE DANGEROUS
Andrey Fursov
INEVITABLE RADICALIZATION OF TREATMENT
Peter W. Schulze
LIBERAL POLICIES HAVE OUTLIVED THEIR PURPOSE
Mikhail Fedotov
THERAPY, NOT SURGERY
Ella Pamfilova
DESTALINIZATION IS A SPECIAL PURPOSE POLICY
Steven Marks
RUSSIA’S INFLUENCE ON THE WORLD IS NOTABLE
Fedor Girenok
RUSSIA’S PECULIAR AFFLICTION
Markku Kivinen
RUSSIA DOES NOT NEED TO BE CURED
Alexander Pavlov
THE ART OF NOT BEING A DOCTOR
Sergey Mitrofanov
ACTIVIST DEMOCRACY OF THE “DOCTOR BYCHKOV”
Michael Parenti
WHEN THE CURE IS WORSE THAN THE DISEASE
Vladislav Inozemtsev
DEMOCRACY IS A FORM OF LIFE IN MENTALLY SANE NATIONS
Thomas Szasz
DEMOCRACY IS A PSEUDONYM FOR “PHARMACRACY”
Paul Hollander
FROM “PURIFICATION OF THE WORLD” TO PERSONAL PATHOLOGY
Talal Asad
“INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY” IS A PROPAGANDA TOOL
Dipesh Chakrabarty
THE MULTICOLORED AND MULTICULTURAL ELITE