Liberal values in the mentality of Russians / Boris Kapustin, Igor Klyamkin -- Dramatic confrontation of democracy and liberalism in old and new Russia / Igor Pantin -- Left movements in post-authoritarian society / Kiva Maidanik -- "Centrism" in Russian politics / Oleg Vitte -- Spontaneity and civilization: two factors in Russia's fate / Vladimir Kantor -- National and state interests of Russia / Leonid Abalkin -- Political culture of Russia: continuity of epochs / Dmitry Gudimenko -- The problem of occidentophilism: today's outlook / Alexander Volodin -- Change of civilizations and the historical fates of Russia -- A tendency to economic reintegration in the CIS / Vadim Kirichenko.