Very few of us can do something without the feeling that it can be done and done good. So, I want to say several words on the possibility of building the Open society in Russia. I hope, that we understand, that the idea is not just to spend some money for education and science here in Russia, but to start a process, that will be going for a long time with the main aim to build a society with a different kind of mentalitet, different kind of relations. For me it was important to answer to myself if it is possible. We can hardly find a period in the history of Russia, when there was a society with a glance of openness.
Opposite examples are numerous.
No one can grow bananas in the Moscow region, it is not reasonable, they never grew here because it is too cold. Gentle plants, which need warm weather can't grow at the latitude of 56 degrees. I think it looks like a man, and at the beginning as a child. Everyone knows, that human childs a very different from the babies of wild animals. The last ones can defend themselves when they are only several weeks or months old.