Letter
“Meritocracy and reality. On November 4, two changes took place in the gubernatorial corps: the heads of the Rostov and Tambov regions were replaced, with the latter headed by Evgeniy Pervyshov, a participant in the “Time of Heroes” personnel program...
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“The Dysfunctional State: The Case of Lebanon. I’m not going to make any substantive comments on the current round of conflict in the Middle East, but I still want to share one observation that is more of a theoretical nature...
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“From the courtroom. In mid-October, we began trials on the merits: prosecutors read out endless volumes of the criminal case...
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“Based on the results of the American elections. The US elections are over. We can say that a good political system is one where the coming to power of not even the best candidate (and in the last elections the probability of such an outcome was 100%) generally does not threaten its existence, because the system will digest him in any case, with greater or lesser costs for itself...
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“On November 7, on the anniversary of the October revolution, one thought came to mind: in 1917 Lenin called for turning the imperialist war into a civil war (and thus anti-imperialist); Now there are some who call the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine a civil war, but these statements are precisely an absolutely imperial narrative...
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“To the Day of National Unity. In many things one can see symbolic unity or unity of the people...
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“We look at the past year and see another year of war, a year of repression, a year of new victims of dictatorship...
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"1993 and economic determinism. 31 years ago, in October 1993, there was a forceful dissolution (aka execution) of the Supreme Council, which later allowed V. Pelevin to joke in “Generation P” about “the smoke of the fatherland is sweet and pleasant to us” and “Parliament” cigarettes...
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"Two freedoms. I read the book “One-Storey America” by I. Ilf and E. Petrov, and almost at the very end the following passage caught my eye: “From his country, he (the average American - my note) asks only one thing to leave him alone and not stop him from listening to the radio and going to the cinema...
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"Sizzling years! While in the pre-trial detention center, at different times I read several works relating to the turbulent beginning of the 20th century in Russia - the era of wars and revolutions: “Cursed Days” by I. Bunin, “St...
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“Exemplary, transparent, understandable and in accordance with the rules. Exactly so, according to Dmitry Peskov, elections were held in Russia on Single Voting Day...
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“At the beginning of August, the director of the Patriot park near Moscow, V. Akhmedov, was detained...