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“I learned that the chairman of the Duma Committee for the Development of Civil Society, Yana Lantratova, as well as Moskalkova, representing A Just Russia, can apply for the place of Tatyana Moskalkova, who is leaving the post of Commissioner for Human Rights at the end of April...
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“On April 12, Hungary will hold parliamentary elections, the result of which is not a foregone conclusion: polls give a majority to the opposition, and experts say long-time Prime Minister Viktor Orban may lose...
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“I recently briefly mentioned the French revolutions, and now another opportunity presented itself to touch on this topic...
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“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...
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“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...
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“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...
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“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...
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Vasily wrote this text by February 27, but due to the slowness of the censorship, it only arrived now...
Political Violence in the History of Russia
"The newest - unfolding literally before our eyes - political history of Russia consists, to our common misfortune, of political violence as well. One can argue about the chronology and name various dates when the 'herbivorous' regime turned into a harsh dictatorship, but political murders have always
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“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...
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