While ordinary Russians are being denied the opportunity to obtain visas to the EU, sanctions are being lifted from two emblematic figures of Putin’s Russia. The negative consequences of this decision are clear. But are there any positive ones? 

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Desperate pleas from Wildberries owners and sellers to the government are provoking a sluggish and chaotic response. And it seems the issue is not just a banal lack of money.

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Despite its predictability, Mamdani’s campaign unsurprisingly attracted massive international attention. This marks the peak of political activism for Generation Z, which literally carried the 34-year-old regional legislator into the New York mayor’s residence. Despite last year’s predictions of the imminent demise of wokism, radical progressives are gradually returning to the agenda.

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At the highest level of Russian power, there is almost no renewal. Many elite members have been waiting for a major reshuffle for over 10 years, but it still hasn’t happened.

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Following the column by commentator Tatyana Rybakova «The War Won. Why Putin Decided to ‘Squeeze’ the Economy» on «Most,» a discussion arose with economist Nikolay Kulbaka. Their conversation quickly went beyond the text’s topic. Moreover, the interlocutors decided to continue the discussion after the publication of the Russian Federation’s draft budget. For now, they debated whether a course toward Stalin-type industrialization has been taken and whether such economic policy is possible in Russia’s current realities.

#AnnaTsivileva #business #VladimirPutin #war #militaryindustrialcomplex #state #discussion #capitalism #KirillDmitriev #nationalization #society #oligarchs #redistributionofproperty #Russia #LaborandCapital #Ukraine #chaebols #elites

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