The real clash of civilisations, maybe.
PS - were you invited? And present? In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
I got the same impression that neither side was sure what they were together for.
No, I'm not a blogger, just an occasional commenter. The ones invited were "tysyachneki" - mostly people on the Russian side of livejournal.com with at least of 1 thousand registered readers, half of them are journalists, the rest mostly writers and political consultants.
