Congratulations on the anniversary of a great friend of our journal, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Rector of MGIMO, Anatoly TORKUNOV! Besides his highest level of professionalism as a historian and political scientist, and his charisma that has allowed him to become an outstanding leader and lead the entire large team at MGIMO, he possesses a selfless willingness to help. We remember that during a difficult moment for 'Polis', he saved the journal. MGIMO is a co-founder of the journal, and we prepared issue No. 5 of 'Polis' specifically for the Rector's anniversary. Here we publish the opening dialogue between MGIMO professors and members of the Editorial Board of the journal, Tatiana Alexeeva and Marina Lebedeva, titled 'International Political Thought: Challenges and Renewal'. The authors highlight Anatoly Vasilyevich's contribution to structuring the fields of international political research in Russia. The title of the article by A.V. Torkunov himself is 'Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence in the Transformation of the Political World'. We wish Anatoly Vasilyevich strength, health, new ideas, articles, and books!

 “Polis” journal congratulates Mikhail CHERNYSH on his 70th anniversary, an outstanding sociologist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, director of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who is one of the cofounders of our journal. We appreciated most highly his organizational talent, sociological imagination, life experience, scientific insight, and creative courage, as well as his exceptional human qualities. Wish an unflagging spirit, tireless energy, and inexhaustible curiosity, bright scientific ideas and original contributions to the development of domestic sociology.

 No. 4 – 2025 is published. Theme of the issue: USA and Europe – unions, regimes and coalitions in the circumstances of global transformations.