OPINION Yevgeny Prigozhin's futile and unsuccessful rebellion: Nikolay Svanidze on the military coup's failure 26 June 2023 Nikolai Svanidze Historian, journalist, public figure According to Svanidze, although the rebellion lasted less than a day, due its fighters' preparation and experience it had the potential to seize control over the entire southern region of Russia.

Opinions Prigozhin's rebellion: meaningless and unsuccessful. Nikolai Svanidze about the failure of a military coup 25 June 2023 Nikolai Svanidze Historian, journalist and public figure The rebellion of Yevgeny Prigozhin lasted less than a day, however, according to the historian and journalist Nikolai Svanidze, he could easily subjugate the entire Russian south - thanks to the preparation and experience of his fighters.

Opinions Council for the rights of one person. Nikolai Svanidze about how Putin repeats the mistakes of Nicholas II 22 Novmber 2022 Nikolai Svanidze Historian, journalist and public figure Last week, Vladimir Putin excluded from the Council of Human Rights, journalist Nikolai Svanidze, human rights activist Igor Kalyapin and director of the Owl information and analytical center Alexander Verkhovsky.

OPINION One Man's Rights Council. Nikolai Svanidze on how Putin is repeating the mistakes of Nicholas II 22 November 2022 Nikolai Svanidze Historian, journalist, public figure Last week, Vladimir Putin expelled journalist Nikolai Svanidze, human rights activist Igor Kalyapin and director of the Sova Information and Analytic Center Alexander Verkhovsky from the Human Rights Council.

OPINION Not a tsar, but a man. Nikolai Svanidze on how Russia failed to embrace Gorbachev’s gift of freedom 1 September 2022 Nikolai Svanidze Historian, journalist, public figure Mikhail Gorbachev was the last of the twentieth century’s prominent politicians to pass. And he took that century with him. Now that page has finally been turned. One can argue about the scale of Gorbachev's personality, but what should we use to measure it? There is no such device.

Opinions Not a king, but a man. Nikolai Svanidze about how Russia could not accept the freedom given to her by Gorbachev 31 August 2022 Nikolai Svanidze Historian, journalist and public figure Mikhail Gorbachev left the last of the major politicians of the twentieth century. And he took this century with him. Now this page is finally inverted. You can argue about the scale of Gorbachev’s personality, but how to measure this scale? There is no such compass.

OPINION Ordinary FasciZm, or the Triumph of Violence: On the culture of totalitarian malice and the origins of Putin's regime 5 April 2022 Nikolai Svanidze Historian, journalist, public figure When the heavy-hanging chains fall and the smoke clears, an opportunity will present itself to approach the unfolding catastrophe from a historical perspective in a level-headed, scholarly manner.

Opinions Ordinary fascizm.

Maybe someday and even soon we will recall the outgoing 2021 year with sad nostalgia: after all there is no war, life is still everydayly stable. But now we say goodbye to him completely without regrets. I don’t remember anything good. The pandemic began earlier, but somehow strengthened. It seems that the repression did not begin now, but they became more massive and somewhat unhealthy. What has definitely changed is the stylistic of the regime, apparently, he has reached milk-school ripeness.

In society The results of the year. Stability virus January 2, 2021 Nikolai Svanidze If we talk about the main events of the year, then there were three. Covid-19 pandemic, adoption of amendments to the constitution and poisoning of Alexei Navalny. Of course, there were two more events very significant for Russia - the not -ended revolution in Belarus and the election of the US president, but they require a separate conversation.

In society "If only there was no war" January 9, 2020 Nikolai Svanidze The year brought two opposite, although interconnected trends. On the one hand, if in Leninsky, activation, revitalization of social life is noticeable in the "bottoms". Young people, primarily a student, were clearly tired of passively observing what is happening in the country.

In society The results of the year. How to stay? January 7, 2019 Nikolai Svanidze The year 2018, if you survey it from the proud height of the Kremlin towers, started successfully, with the convincing and easy victory of Vladimir Putin in the next election. But he finished dreary and quite hopeless. The ratings go down, not fast, but systematically. In fact, we are talking only about one, main rating. There is no need to talk about the rest, both personal and institutional.

In society The last to whom else the power was listened December 8, 2018 Nikolai Svanidze Lyudmila Mikhailovna Alekseeva died. At the 92nd year of life in the 15th clinical hospital in Moscow. A couple of days before the death, she seemed to be better, transferred from resuscitation to a regular ward. And some hope appeared. But so. Fragile, small, she was a real fighter, a warrior, when it concerned her beliefs.

D. Peskov told us about the symbiosis of the two Putins. In principle, the splitting of the first person, if it is too large-scale and diverse for one physical medium, is not a new phenomenon, fully mastered by world culture from the Holy Scriptures to the book of the Strugatsky brothers “Monday begins on Saturday.” But this case, of course, is closer to the Book of Books.

In society The results of the year. It won't be better January 2, 2018 Nikolai Svanidze According to the Levadovsk survey, the relative majority of Russians believe that the main Russian event of the year took place in Syria. From which we can conclude that the propaganda state machine works regularly and all the conversations that it loses efficiency does not have real grounds.