A lot of ideologized journalism, black and golden-pink legends containing fiction and truncated half-truths have been written about the Russian people. And we will try to tell the truth about the Russian mentality and the closely lying problem of the essence of Slavism: the truth is convex, voluminous, ambiguous about the specifics of Russian statehood and its difficult relations with the Russian people, about the real role of Orthodoxy in Russian life, as well as about the role of liberals, about some such controversial issues as the reasons for the victory of the Bolsheviks in 1917. We will also inform you about what awaits our mentality and people in the near future.