“And what have I to do with it? Did I want this war or did I start it? " How those who do not oppose her criticize and justify the war

“At some point, almost everyone will be the opposition one way or another. You just have to survive before him. ” Sociologist Konstantin Haaza on the prospects of the third year of the war and the fifth sentence of Putin

“Let these devils see that we still follow what they are doing.” Electoral analyst Ivan Shukshin on how to build and read voting and falsifications in elections in Russia

“Traditional values ​​are what power wants to see Russians. But they are not like that and they don’t want to be like that. ” Social researcher Maxim Rudnev about what people really value in Russia

"Everything should not end at Navalny." Political scientist Margarita Zavadskaya about what will happen to the Russian regime, society and opposition after February 16, 2024

"Naropoutinism is a danger to Vladimir Putin today, since it turns it into an extra element of the structure he created." Political scientist Nikita Savin about why Putinism is not ideology and why it is good

“The existence of a large number of states for which economic interaction with Russia is acceptable - this is the altered world order.” Observer Alexander Baunov about the strategies of the world and war

“It is the end of ideology, the lack of ideology as a system allowed Putin to start and wage this war.” The Economist observer Arkady Ostrovsky about how the ideology of the Kremlin replaced aesthetics

"The thinning of the fabric of patience will not be expressed in protests, it will be expressed in the fatigue of the material." Ekaterina Shulman about the results of 2023 for the Russian ruling class

“The war still will not end in Russia! Anyway - there will be a collapse! " How the moods of Russians changed during the First World War - from patriotic anxiety to revolutionary fears

“The task of the textbook is not that everyone thinks as it is written. Enough that the majority thinks so. ” Historian, teacher Alexei Makarov about history textbooks and school indoctrination

"The idea of ​​the exchange of murders in the war for other crimes is, in general, wildness." Criminologist Vladimir Kudryavtsev about how war and crime are connected

“Even if in 1999 Yeltsin preferred Primakov to Putin, Russian democracy, most likely, would not have survived anyway.” Political scientist Maria Snegova about how the Soviet nomenclature won in Russia

“From the point of view of the survival of the regime, Putin’s decision to start a war was a huge adventure - and probably a mistake.” Sergey Guriev and Daniel Traisman about dictatorships of fear and dictators of deception

“In a situation of instability, more and more windows will appear, and the opposition is important not to blink them.” Political scientist Margarita Zavadskaya on the political consequences of June-2023