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''Project Russia'' is a Russian nonfiction book series written during the first decade of the 21st century. The books have placed highly on bestseller lists in Russia, including the political booklist in the Moskva bookshop and the nonfiction list of probooks.ru, which combines sales information from the eight largest retailers and networks. These books discuss aspects of political, economic and ideological life in Russia and the world, and try to predict the future. As of 2011, four books have been published by EKSMO: # ''Project Russia'' (2005) # ''Project Russia, The Choice of the Way'' (2007) # ''Project Russia, The Third Millennium'' (2009) # ''Project Russia, The Great Idea'' (2010) ''Project Russia'' touched on social questions, saying that Russia faced collapse and needed a unifying idea. State structural problems in Russia were also analyzed, exploring the possibility that the Russian Federation might cease to exist. The authors of ''Project Russia'' predicted the financial crisis of 2007–08 in their 2005 book, describing the approaching unrest and analyzing its causes and the fall of the world order.〔''Project Russia''. Book 1, Preface: "Nowadays people behave like short-lived butterflies on a sinking ship. Because of its mental horizon no butterfly can comprehend the fact that the ship is sinking".〕 ==History== The first volume was published anonymously in 2005. It was delivered by the DHS delivery service (a federal mail service of the Russian government) to most governmental departments of the Russian Federation (the Federal Security Service, the Presidential Administration of Russia, the Attorney General's office, the Duma and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=?? )〕 and public figures, including film director Nikita Mikhalkov. As a result, the book was discussed in Russian political circles. In 2006, ''Project Russia'' was published by OLMA Press and Eksmo. The second, third and fourth volumes were published by Eksmo,〔 and the first edition of the third volume had a press run of one million copies. When ''The Third Millennium'' was published, advertisements in Kiev had Ukraine as part of Russia. Three days later, the advertisements were ordered to be removed by the Security Service of Ukraine. Mikhalkov said about ''Project Russia'': "This book is very serious, very serious. Moreover, this is its anonymity that reveals the seriousness and unwillingness to appear personally and desire to express opinion about what occurs, occurred and will occur. I think that this book was written by very serious, religious and educated people". Alexander Khinshtein, a State Duma representative and journalist, said: "I completely agree with the words given in the book about the dominance of the people of limited thinking in power. I don’t mind against monarchy, by the way we are living in the conditions not far from it".〔 ''Project Russia'' books were seen in the office of First Deputy Chief of the Russian Presidential Administration Vladislav Surkov. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Project Russia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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