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Putin: Birth and Rebirth
Today turns 73. He intends to live—that is, to rule—until the end of his days, though it’s not yet clear whether they will be his own or yours. And if you want to drink champagne to the repose of his soul (in which, admittedly, there are doubts), you’ll have to wait another twenty or thirty years. And I’m not being ironic. I’m talking about a sensible life strategy.
#VladimirPutin #state #dictatorship #DmitryKiselev #DmitryMedvedev #YevgenyPrigogine #kgb #MargaritaSimonyan #Bulk #society #aftertheUSSR #freedom #SergeyKiriyenko #Emigration
«Israel Could Not Fail to Respond on October 7. But What Will the Outcome Be?»
Another round of conflict in the Middle East drags on: Israel is losing allies and facing new accusations. Can a new initiative from Donald Trump bring the country an honorable peace in this context? How justified are the criticisms leveled against the Jewish state—genocide, occupation, and colonization of Palestinian lands? And does the State of Palestine even exist, as Western countries have been recognizing it one after another recently? On the second anniversary of the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel and the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, we try to understand this with Marianna Belenkaya, a journalist and Middle East expert, author of the Telegram channel «Falafelnaya.»
#October72023 #Analytics #antiSemitism #MiddleEast #war #DonaldTrump #Israel #interview #Palestine #rightandleft #GazaStrip #TonyBlair #Hamas
«Away from Moscow! Give us Europe!» How Ukrainian authors revived national culture and perished in Stalinist repressions
The brief period of the rise of Ukrainian literature and art in the 1920s-30s is called the «Executed Renaissance.» The intellectual and creative atmosphere of those years was so enticing that emigrants fleeing the Civil War began moving to Ukraine. But the golden age ended as abruptly as it began. «Most.Media» recalls the tragic biographies of the participants in this movement.
#20thcentury #Holodomor #CivilWar #dictatorship #historicalmemory #History #literature #poetry #repressions #Sandarmokh #freedom #theUSSR #Stalinism #Ukraine #Kharkov #Emigration #language
«Trump, better take the Ural Federal District, we’ll pay you extra»
«Most.Media,» in collaboration with the magazine «Region.Expert,» launches a regular weekly review of events occurring in the fields of regional politics, economy, and culture. For many Russian media, as well as for free Russian-language publications outside Russia, this topic often still seems secondary and provincial. But such a snobbish-centralist approach has repeatedly failed — throughout various historical changes, Russia’s geographical borders have shifted, and many former provinces of the empire became independent countries. If we aim to look to the future, some promising trends need to be tracked and analyzed today.
#future #state #imperialism #society #opposition #aftertheUSSR #Regions #Russia #JuliaNavalnaya
Perestroika Spotlight. On the Death of Vitaly Korotich
In the early 1990s, Dmitry Gubin worked at the magazine «Ogonyok,» which was then headed by Korotich — and he has memories to share about the legendary editor who passed away this week.
#VitalyKorotich #journalism #historicalmemory #personalexperience #media #MikhailGorbachev #Restructuring #aftertheUSSR #Russia #USA #Ukraine #Emigration
Dissatisfaction with the Personnel Stalemate Grows Around Putin
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.
#AlexeyMiller #Analytics #VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #state #DmitryKozak #IgorSechin #career #MikhailFradkov #NikolayPatrushev #Russia #SergeyKiriyenko #elites
Tax burden on Russian citizens will rise to 65%. The reason — the war in Ukraine
The Ministry of Finance announced the initial budget parameters for 2026 and 2027-28, as well as changes in tax legislation that will help implement this budget. And this is a wartime budget.
#business #budget #WarinUkraine #state #minfin #Taxation #society #Russia #finance
Is Europe Ready to Confront Russia? NATO Countries’ Reactions to Provocations in Their Airspace Raise Doubts
An effective way to stop Russian military provocations could be NATO’s shift to a proactive strategy. So that it’s not European countries fearing the arrival of Russian drones or fighter jets, but rather Russia itself fearing unexpected «visits» on its own territory. Ukraine has already shown how this is done, reaching Russian military and energy facilities thousands of kilometers from its borders with its drones. But will there be politicians in Europe willing to declare their intent to fundamentally dismantle the aggressive empire threatening the entire free world?
#WarinUkraine #drones #EuropeanUnion #LeagueofNations #MargaretThatcher #NATO #UN #aftertheSSPR #provocations #RonaldReagan #Russia #Estonia
«Put me back in prison!»: When patriotism turns into Stockholm syndrome
Dictatorships have a tendency to completely distort the phenomenon of patriotism. Natural human sympathies for the nature and culture of their country are replaced by demands for unconditional loyalty to the ruling regime. Saltykov-Shchedrin already noted this, reflecting on those who confuse the concepts of «Fatherland» and «Your Excellency.» Later, a grim Soviet joke appeared: when the state needs something from its citizens, it calls itself the «Motherland.» And always with a capital letter. Under such conditions, patriotism turns into a form of Stockholm syndrome, where hostages begin to sympathize with their captors.
#AlexeiNavalny #Belarus #state #citizenship #west #IlyaYashin #society #opposition #Patriotism #politicalprisoners #aftertheUSSR #repressions #Russia #Emigration #essay
«There will be no mass raids on migrants in Germany like in the USA»
The war in Ukraine and the related increase in military spending in Europe, inevitably accelerating inflation, are leading to anti-migrant sentiments and, consequently, to the growing popularity of the far-right in several European countries. In Germany, according to the latest August public opinion poll, the rating of the right-wing populist and pro-Russian party «Alternative for Germany» reached 26% (the ruling Christian Democratic Union is in second place with 24%). Meanwhile, Russian drones have started entering NATO countries. We discussed the situation in Europe with sociologist Igor Eidman (the Russian Ministry of Justice considers him a foreign agent).
#AlternativeforGermany #WarinUkraine #Germany #DonaldTrump #drones #interview #migrants #NATO #rightandleft #crime #provocations #forecast #Russia #USA #FriedrichMerz #Emigration
Nepal: In Eternal Expectation of a Benevolent King
In September 2025, protesters from Nepal unexpectedly became the heroes of the global media. The ruling coalition of Marxist-Leninists, social democrats, and their allies attempted to block social networks, which sparked the «Generation Z Revolution.» Within days, the cabinet fell, and the interim prime minister — former Supreme Court judge Sushila Karki, the first woman in her position — was elected by protest activists in a Discord chat group.
#Asia #CivilWar #History #monarchy #Nepal #rightandleft #protests
The Birth of a Propagandist. How TV Host Vladimir Solovyov Died to Journalism
It's hard to believe that Vladimir Solovyov was once a respected journalist known for being a courageous interlocutor. Today, he is one of the main mouthpieces of the war that Russia unleashed in Ukraine. At one time, I personally witnessed and, to some extent, was a victim of this metamorphosis.
#PussyRiot #VladimirSolovyov #WarinUkraine #ideology #personalexperience #propaganda #propagandist #protests #Putinism #Russia #PussyRiottrial #TV
«The Second Holocaust» or a Myth Against Israel? Is It True That the History of the Jewish State Began with Mass Killings and Deportations of Arabs
It cannot be said that before World War II, Palestinian Arabs unequivocally supported the expulsion of Jews back to Europe. Thousands of Muslims worked successfully at Jewish enterprises, rented land from Jews, traded with them, or simply coexisted peacefully with people of different faiths. The conditional point of no return can be marked as the summer of 1937.
#worldhistoryresonance #Israel #History #Agreementculture #mythology #Nakba #Palestine #parsing #holocaust
American-Style Rightness
Although the First Amendment, guaranteeing freedom of speech and the press, is still in effect in the USA and protects hundreds of prestigious editorial offices and thousands of talented journalists working in them, for some reason millions of Americans prefer to entrust their information services to very strange people. People who are either directly affiliated with a certain political movement and don’t even try to hide it, or simply lack any expertise in the matters in which citizens with the right to vote listen to them.
#youtube #America #DonaldTrump #theInternet #influencers #conservatives #youth #politicaltechnologies #rightandleft #rightturn #propaganda #socialnetwork #murderofCharlieKirk #essay
We All Look to Napoleons. Can the Deployment of a Military Contingent from the «Coalition of the Willing» Help Ukraine?
At the beginning of September, a meeting took place in Paris with representatives from 35 countries interested in the activities of the «Coalition of the Willing.» The essence of this peacekeeping idea, conceived six months ago, is to station troops from Ukraine's allied countries on its territory.
#Analytics #Belgium #WarinUkraine #Germany #europe #coalition #NATO #Russia #solidarity #Balticcountries #France
The Only European. Why Philosopher Merab Mamardashvili Did Not Emigrate from the USSR
According to Mamardashvili, a human being is merely the potential to become a person. Preserving the person within the human requires constant effort. The same goes for Europe: to remain European, one must make an effort and cannot relax. A year after Mamardashvili’s passing, American philosopher Francis Fukuyama would declare the end of history, and Europe would relax. But history will return.
#internalemigration #Georgia #europe #intelligentsia #JosephBrodsky #endofstory #counterculture #MerabMamardashvili #aftertheUSSR #freedom #philosophy #FrancisFukuyama #essay
«The Russian Military Economy Has Reached Its Peak. And It Seems That the Top Leadership Has Realized This»
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
Elixir of Power: From the Quest for the Holy Grail to Bioprinting Organs
Of course, technologies are not yet capable of fully replacing the charisma and intellect of a real person. Even the richest and most powerful are mortal. But what seemed like science fiction in the 20th century (cryogenically frozen «leaders,» endless organ transplants, supercomputers making state decisions) is gradually taking shape as a scientific project in the 21st century. Authoritarian immortality is now not only a metaphor but also a goal that commands significant resources.
#autocrats #immortality #biotechnology #VladimirPutin #state #dictatorship #China #Nazis #Russia #XiJinping #aging #ThirdReich #futurology
One Day at the Ministry of Culture in the Era of the «Special Military Operation»
On the walls here, you can see gigantic portraits of Putin, icons, and vinyl records of Vysotsky and Okudzhava (all in one office), lower-level employees are scolded with quotes from Pasternak and Zabolotsky, and TV host Ekaterina Andreeva gives advice on how to properly cope with the anger of superiors at a «Znanie» society lecture.
#WarinUkraine #state #women #lifeinRussia #career #Crimea #Kurskregion #mincult #patriarchy #Patriotism #aftertheUSSR #propaganda #reportage #svo #Officials
«People like him had little chance of surviving the 1930s»
«Most» columnist Dmitry Khmelnitsky has been trying for 50 years to reconstruct the life story of the outstanding artist Viktor Lobachev. All that is known about him so far is his name and the period of his work: the late 1930s.
#1930s #graphics #Zeitgeist #art #History #personalexperience #investigation #repressions #theUSSR #artists