August 19-21, 1991, with each passing year, become an increasingly mythologized distant past. The current authorities generally prefer not to recall them at all, even though many of their representatives would never have reached their current heights without those historic days. A whole generation has already grown up that simply does not remember. And those who do remember are increasingly critical of these events. They say, well, what was achieved? Was it worth it? Believe me – it was.

#1991 #Augustputsch #gkchp #Gorbachev #democracy #Yeltsin #History #personalexperience #society #aftertheUSSR #protests #revolution #Russia

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In June, Russian opposition figures led by Ilya Yashin created the Peaceful Russia party in Berlin, which stands against the war and Vladimir Putin. But its vision of the country’s future largely reproduces the same centralized model of power that the opposition itself usually criticizes

#democracy #IlyaYashin #mokvocentrism #opposition #partybuilding #Putin #Regions #Russia

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A week ago, Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party suffered a crushing defeat in parliamentary elections. Thus ended the Viktor Orbán era. For 16 years in power, he assumed that the benefits of close ties with Moscow would always outweigh the image costs. In reality, Hungarian voters wanted not only low prices for gasoline and gas, but also a European identity.

#Analytics #Hungary #ViktorOrban #VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #democracy #DonaldTrump #EuropeanUnion #Voters #KajaCallas #MarineLePin #society #parliamentaryelections #rightandleft

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In ancient times, it took the Jews forty years to mentally overcome slavery and enter the Promised Land. How long will it take us to overcome the Soviet past?

#AlexanderMen #AlexanderSolzhenitsyn #AndreiSakharov #Bible #BorisYeltsin #Germany #state #democracy #Jews #WestandEast #ImmanuelKant #KoradAstiauer #Nazism #Restructuring #aftertheUSSR #Orthodoxy #slavery #reformsinRussia #freedom #ThirdReich

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There are women in the country ready to change politics and society. But mostly, only those who do not challenge the system make it into power. Dissenters are pushed out of politics or subjected to repression.

#activizi #AnnaPolitkovskaya #ValentinaMatvienko #ValentinaTereshkova #power #state #democracy #dictatorship #Europeanvalues #women #patriarchy #Putin #repressions #Russia #feminism #essay

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Today marks two years since the death of Alexei Navalny. On the eve of the anniversary, five countries (the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Germany, and the Netherlands) issued an official statement that several independent laboratories had confirmed his poisoning with an extremely toxic substance—in essence, a chemical weapon. Only the Russian authorities had both the means and the motive to use it in the polar colony. On the anniversary of Navalny’s murder, the editorial team of «Most.Media» publishes a polemical essay by our reader I.B. from Russia. The anonymity requested by the author is necessary: the Russian authorities continue political repression against Navalny’s supporters even after his death.

#democracy #dictatorship #discussion #historicalmemory #Bulk #opposition #aftertheUSSR #BeautifulRussiaoftheFuture #Putin #householdtype #repressions #Russia #Sakharov #freedom #thick #themurderofAlexeiNavalny #FBK #Christianity #essay

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Last week, the «Russian Volunteer Corps» finally published its program and ideological doctrine. «Finally»—because this nationalist formation, which switched sides to Ukraine in February 2022, has long called on the Russian opposition to unite. Of course, by default—under the banners of the RVC. In short, hopes for a proper evolution of Russian nationalists have not come true.

#WarinUkraine #demography #democracy #discussion #Institute #ideology #Nazism #new #opposition #rightandleft #reformsofthe1990s #Russia #Russiannationalists #Russianmilitarycorps #ThirdReich #LaborandCapital #fascism

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Sociologist Lev Gudkov has been studying public attitudes in Russia since the time of Perestroika. In the late 1980s, he worked at the All-Union Center for the Study of Public Opinion, from which he left in the early 2000s along with Yuri Levada’s team. From 2006 to 2021, Gudkov headed the Levada Center—the largest independent organization conducting sociological surveys in Russia—and then became its scientific director. Both the Levada Center and Gudkov himself have been designated as foreign agents by the Russian Ministry of Justice. Drawing on years of sociological surveys of post-Soviet society and the historical experience of countries that went through fascism in the 20th century, we spoke with the renowned researcher about the most likely scenario for Russia’s future.

#future #WarinUkraine #state #degradation #democracy #dictatorship #europe #lifeintheUSSR #west #interview #LevadaCenter #society #afterPutin #forecast #reforms #Russia #socialsphere #sociology #futurology #Economy

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The new prime minister of the country, appointed by President Emmanuel Macron, suddenly turned out to be the very same person who resigned from the same position three days before the appointment.

#Analytics #democracy #pensionreform #governmentcrisis #rightandleft #protests #France #EmmanuelMacron

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Already as president, de Gaulle liked to say that he was the only politician defending France's interests because he was criticized by both the left and the right. There is some truth to this.

#20thcentury #WorldWarII #elections #democracy #europe #west #historicalmyth #History #conservatism #republic #resistance #France #CharlesdeGaulle

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In August 1975, in Helsinki, 35 countries from Europe and North America, from the USSR and the USA to Malta and Luxembourg, signed the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE). This treaty became the pinnacle of the détente period (a policy of easing international tensions), when the West and the Soviet bloc tried to implement the principle of «peaceful coexistence» at least on one continent.

#Brezhnev #East #democracy #dictatorship #diplomacy #west #History #aftertheUSSR #humanrightsactivists #Putin #Russia #Sakharov #HelsinkiAccords

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Right-wing populism is not a universal ideology, and everything beyond anti-globalist and anti-immigrant sentiments is subject to tactical moves that have their local characteristics depending on the local agenda. Yet, it is possible to highlight the reasons for the successes of right-wing populists using the example of Marine Le Pen's party in France.

#Analytics #WarinUkraine #elections #democracy #europe #JeanMarieLePen #MarineLePin #society #rights #Putin #ultraright #France

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Last week, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation declared the non-existent «International Satanists Movement» extremist. It's surprising that a phenomenon of Western pop culture like satanism still causes moral panic among Russian authorities.

#America #VladimirPutin #authorities #East #TheStateDuma #democracy #dictatorship #west #moralpanic #popculture #religion #RonaldReagan #Russia #Satanism #Christianity

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In 2023, when the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation declared the non-existent «International LGBT Social Movement» an extremist organization, the Russian queer community finally went underground. For distributing any content mentioning LGBT, you can receive a hefty fine or even a criminal case. Stores stopped selling books with stories about same-sex love, online cinemas are deleting series and films with queer characters, and the social network VKontakte blocks search queries about LGBT. Queer people who agreed to talk about ways to preserve their identity under these conditions were forced to hide even for phone interviews—in friends’ apartments, or even in the forest.‍

#state #democracy #dictatorship #queer #LGBT #personalexperience #politicalrepressions #humanrights #Russia #sex

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American politician and diplomat Henry Kissinger would have turned 102 today (considering he lived to 100, this is quite a realistic assumption). His name is firmly associated with the concepts of «shuttle diplomacy» and Realpolitik. For his efforts to end the Vietnam War in 1973, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Despite being one of the architects of U.S. foreign policy aimed against the USSR during the Cold War, he later often spoke sympathetically about Russia, justified its foreign policy actions, and met with. Kissinger’s ideological legacy is especially interesting in light of the Russia-Ukraine war and Donald Trump’s attempts to stop it.

#Analytics #VladimirZelensky #VladimirPutin #war #WorldEconomicForum #HenryKissinger #democracy #JoeBiden #dictatorship #diplomacy #DonaldTrump #China #Russia #SovietUnion #SteveBannon #Ukraine

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Negotiations between Ukraine and Russia are scheduled for May 15 in Istanbul, actively promoted by US President Donald Trump. According to political scientist and geographer Dmitry Oreshkin (the Russian Ministry of Justice considers him a foreign agent), important matters that have already changed the course of events around the war remain in the shadows of these talks. ‍

#democracy #dictatorship #interview #war

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