POLIS Contents ¹ 6 - 2006



PRESENTING THIS ISSUE
Editorial Introduction. Presenting This Issuep.5

THE THEME OF THE ISSUE: MENTAL MAP OF RUSSIA
Oslon A.A. Megapolls for Russia’s Population (The “Georating” Project)p.6
Kertman G.L. Moscow Anomalies: an Excursion through the “Georating”p.24
Bavin P.S. Social Geography of Xenophobia and Tolerancep.37

PROBLEMS AND JUDGMENTS
Solovyov A.I. Transcellular Structures as Form of Construction and Source of Self-Development of the Statep.59
Kholodkovsky K.G. The Left vs. the Right Wingers Opposition: Anachronism or Change of Coordinates?p.81
Yefremenko D.V. Democracy and Ecological Risk Communication as Problems of Environmental Politicsp.97

INTERPRETATIONS
Semenenko I.S., Lapkin V.V., Pantin V.I. Russia’s Image in the West: Dialectics of Ideas in the Context of the World Development (By Way of Posing the Problem)p.110
Chernyavsky Ye.B. Caspian Antinomiesp.125

RUSSIA TODAY
Barsukova S.Yu. The Power and Business: New Rules of the Gamep.135
Kynev A.V. Political Parties in Russian Regions: a View in the Light of the Regional Electoral Reformp.145

REFLECTING ON MATTERS IN PRINT
Kazantzev A.A. Schools and Sects in Political Thought of Modern Russia (Marginal Notes to The Thinking Russia Book of Collected Works)p.161
Blyakher L.Ye. The Burden of Reflection, or A Revolution which Never Took Place...p.173
Meleshkina Ye.Yu. Political Parties in the Post-Soviet Space: an Essay of Collective Researchp.178