Ivan Golunov's fight for freedom and the subsequent march demonstrated how quickly the vortex of collective action is now unwinding, when the most pressing and painful problems of society catch on to indignation - sociologist Ella Paneyakh Unprecedented wave The words “unprecedented wave of solidarity” last time I wrote, when readers on the Internet raised the necessary money in less than four days to save the New Times from an unfair fine.

The infrastructure of today's life itself changes relations between the state and people, according to sociologist Ella Paneye The development of Russian society is increasingly conflict with the degradation of the Russian state. So far, the state is in the offensive position, but society is increasingly starting to give back.

There is some gap between the ideas of our fellow citizens about good and evil and their behavior in real life. To some extent, actions depend on values, and in some-on interests and social pressure. Judging by research, residents of Russia quite share European values, but much less than in the West, take them into account when making decisions, according to the sociologist Ella Paneye, Associate Professor of the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg.

What is completely absent from the feed this time are people who ostentatiously post cats five times a day, having not yet been noticed as having a great passion for such online behavior. Or they indulge in arguments like “why do I care so much about the event that all my friends and acquaintances are now rejoicing or, on the contrary, freaking out? They break spears, spoil strange relationships with each other, they get nervous, but for me, the beautiful one, it’s so awesome...

Actually, I was going to write a feminist article. But the further the sex scandal around the most famous Moscow school unfolds, the more it becomes clear that this is not a story about sex. And not about gender. And not even primarily about gender. This is a story about school. About power, about trauma. About the trauma that almost everyone who spent the most vulnerable decade of their life bears within the framework set by the structure of the Soviet and post-Soviet school.

From the very beginning of the conversation about Putin’s sanctions against the nutritional needs of the population, some awkwardness is noticeable in the statements of that group of Internet users who could afford expensive and rare products that were inaccessible - and often not very interesting - to the average Russian.