The perestroika announced by Gorbachev and the – also opaque meaning – change by Obama although designed to solve problems of very different societies and economies but still have parallel features. Both can be associated with forced reforms: with an obvious result concerning perestroika but with hardly a beginning of Obama's change.

According to the article launching our new column the systemic change in Hungary made a historic turn-point changing the character of theatre life. It appeared as the object of aesthetics but also as an aspect of the structured complexity of theatre and society.

The essay is surfing the troubled waters of contemporary Russian culture, teaching us the "totalitarian" approach, also in the fields of film and music that faces a young system critical journal in Russia day by day. We should not be surprised if parallels can be made to the situation in Hungary.