Letters

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Dec 19, 2024

“In memory of A. T. Marchenko. After my arrest in June 2023, I was left with several unfinished cases, which well illustrate the saying “don’t leave for tomorrow what you can do today.” One of these things was plans to hold an event with comrades in the Yabloko party dedicated to the memory of the Soviet dissident Anatoly Tikhonovich Marchenko (1938-1986)...

Dec 16, 2024

“The tragedy of power. On December 8, I heard on the radio about the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria...

Dec 12, 2024

“Personalism and the Constitution (by December 12). Today is the 31st anniversary of the referendum in which the Russian constitution was adopted...

Dec 6, 2024

“Politics, beer, etc. At the beginning of October, the founding congress of the Beer Lovers Party was held in Moscow...

Dec 2, 2024

“Dear friends! It’s December, which means that Nochlezhka’s annual Mandarin Drink and Stew event is currently taking place...

Nov 28, 2024

“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...

Nov 25, 2024

“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...

Nov 20, 2024

“From the courtroom. In mid-October, we began trials on the merits: prosecutors read out endless volumes of the criminal case...

Nov 18, 2024

“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...

Nov 14, 2024

“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...

Nov 4, 2024

“To the Day of National Unity. In many things one can see symbolic unity or unity of the people...

Oct 30, 2024