Letters

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Mar 23, 2026

“I recently briefly mentioned the French revolutions, and now another opportunity presented itself to touch on this topic...

Mar 19, 2026

“Due to the intensive progress of my court hearings in February, I slightly missed the news related to the confiscation of the Sirena-Travel group of companies (estimated value of 35 billion rubles) from State Duma deputy Rifat Shaikhutdinov to the state...

Mar 16, 2026

“I just re-read one novel by V. Pelevin from the second half of the tenths. The novel is rubbish, but it made me think that a good game in the spirit of the times might be to determine the approximate year of publication of a book based on the footnotes found in it, informing about the bans: for example, in the Pelevin I read (edition 2023), in connection with Facebook, the ban of the Meta company is already mentioned, but the “LGBT movement” is not yet labeled in any way...

Mar 9, 2026

“I saw news reminiscent of the upcoming Duma elections this September that the federal part of the United Russia list will presumably be headed by five, which will include Dmitry Medvedev, Sergei Lavrov, the head physician of one of the Moscow hospitals Maryana Lysenko, the head of the Yunarmiya and combatant Vladimir Golovin and military correspondent Yevgeny Poddubny...

Mar 6, 2026

“February 25 marked the 70th anniversary of the debunking of Stalin’s personality cult at the 20th Congress of the CPSU, namely Khrushchev’s report “On the personality cult and its consequences.” Much can be said about the typology of political regimes and the criteria for separating democratic regimes from non-democratic ones...

Mar 4, 2026

Vasily wrote this text by February 27, but due to the slowness of the censorship, it only arrived now...

Mar 4, 2026

Political Violence in the History of Russia

Feb 24, 2026

“The onset of yet another, already the fourth anniversary of the start of the war, once again shows that neither side can win on the battlefield, while both are losing every day, literally sacrificing their future...

Feb 20, 2026

"Some time ago mentioned that I was able to familiarize myself with the book “Steep Route” by Evgenia Ginzburg...

Feb 9, 2026

“Back in the summer of 2025, in connection with the Iran-Israeli conflict, someone remembered the Iranian Shah Pahlavi dynasty...

Feb 4, 2026

“Last January, I already wrote that celebrating the New Year in a pre-trial detention center is gradually becoming a tradition...

Jan 31, 2026