This is a fragment of a large study conducted by the sociologists and anthropologists of the Laboratory of Public Sociology (in the register of “foreign Agents” in Russia. - Republic), from the very beginning of the Russian war with Ukraine, studying the attitude of Russians to the conflict (two earlier research can be read here and here , and here is an interview with one of the sociologists of the laboratory Oleg Zhuravlev).

This material (information) has been produced and (or) distributed by a foreign agent ⁠ Zheleznova M.M. or applies to the activities of the foreign ⁠ Agent M.M. Zheleznova 18+ About the election - So, the landscape: the war is going on for the third year and she is not visible, Vladimir Putin just won the elections with the Turkmen result and went for his fifth term, Alexei Navalny is dead. What do you think, seeing all this?

This material has been produced and widespread by a foreign agent ⁠ Zheleznova M.M. 18+ The presidential election-2024 in Russia beat records and turnouts, and the result of the winner-Vladimir Putin, who, according to the results of the vote on March 15-17, will become the President of Russia for the fifth time, this time won the elections with a completely Asian result of 87%. But, it seems, this time a record for falsifications was also broken: 22 million abnormalities, i.e.

This material has been produced and widespread by a foreign agent ⁠ Zheleznova M.M. 18+ “Traditional values” - this phrase over the past few years has become a universal explanation for the Russian authorities that “special path” by which it leads the country, and the need to “protect” them from the “threat” from the West - the on -duty justification of the next restriction of citizens' rights.

This material has been produced and widespread by a foreign agent ⁠ Zheleznova M.M. 18+ The death of the leader of the Russian opposition Alexei Navalny in the Polar Wolf colony, where he was serving a huge term for politically motivated sentences, shocked not only his closest associates and like -minded people, but everyone who would like to live in a wonderful Russia of the future - or at least just in normal.

This material has been produced and widespread by a foreign agent ⁠ Zheleznova M.M. 18+ Why is Putinism not ideology and where is the good news? How will it be described in textbooks in 20 years? Why argue about whether the current Russian regime has ideology or not? Why in Russia the future can be in demand by neoputinism and how can it look? And something more or less healthy from it can turn out?

The dove of the world in Banksy This is a summary of the report “Strategies of War and Peace”, read by a senior researcher at the Carnegie Berlin Center for the Study of Russia and Eurasia Alexander Baunov at the conference “ Country and Peace: Russian Realities-2023 ”, organized by the Media Project “ Country and Peace ”.

This is the summary of the report “Imitations as an ideology”, which the observer The Economist Arkady Ostrovsky read at the conference “ Country and Peace: Russian Realities-2023 ”, organized by the Media Project “ Country and Peace ”. This is the second report from this cycle, and the first, read by Ekaterina Schulman, can be found here.

This is a summary of the report “Russian ruling class in an emergency: a year later” that political scientist Ekaterina Shulman, an invited researcher at the Carnegie Berlin Center for the Study of Russia and Eurasia, read at the conference “ Country and Peace: Russian Realities-2023 ”, organized by the media project “ Country and Peace ”.

Victor Vasnetsov "Bogatyrsky Skok", 1914 Last week, one of the most important Russian book awards for non-fiction-a special “Politzosvet” award for the best work describing the socio-political process in Russia- received the book of 47-year-old historian Vladislav Aksenov “The War of Patriotisms. Propaganda and mass sentiments in Russia of the period of collapse of the empire, " published in the publishing house" New Literary Review "in 2023.

This material has been produced and widespread by a foreign agent ⁠ Zheleznova M.M. 18+ In the 2023–2024 academic year, the study of domestic history in high school of Russian schools should go on a new textbook, the authors of which are ex-minister Vladimir Medinsky and the rector of Mgimim Anatoly Torkunov.

This material has been produced and widespread by a foreign agent ⁠ Zheleznova M.M. 18+ He fought in Ukraine, returned home and killed a neighbor - such news looks frightening, but it seems that they are already stopping surprising. Does the war really make people cruel and aggressive? How are wars and crime related? Do I have to wait for a surge of violence after the return of the "new veterans" home? And if these "veterans" fell into the war from the colony by recruiting into PMCs?!

The question "How did it turn out that democracy in Russia has lost?" It is pointless, because in Russia democracy has never truly “won”. August 1991 events Global look Press <...> The question "How did it turn out that democracy in Russia has lost?" It is pointless, because in Russia democracy has never truly “won”. The Soviet Union broke up in 1991, but there was no real transition to democracy - the previous, communist, the system has not gone anywhere, only slightly changed externally.

Provided by the Boris Nemtsov Foundation. The Boris Nemtsov Foundation issued a Russian translation by the book of economist Sergei Guriev and political scientist Daniel Traisman “Dictators of Deception: a new face of tyranny in the 21st century” . Guriev and Traisman describe a new type of autocracy - informational, in which the dictator is not based on fear, but on deception, manipulation of information and propaganda, while more or less successfully depicting the democratic ruler.

This material has been produced and widespread by a foreign agent ⁠ Zheleznova M.M. 18+ Does an autocrat study on failed coups or not? How and when does the reign of autocrat-veteran usually end? How do his successors behave - do a thaw or frost? What to do if the similar experience of other countries is not too optimistic? Who can use the consequences of the poster of Prigozhin - for example, can special services find "New Putin"? And what can the Russian opposition do now?