PERESTROIKA INITIATED BY MIKHAIL SERGEEVICH GORBACHEV WAS, IN MY VIEW, A THIRD SERIOUS ATTEMPT TO OVERCOME THE INSTITUTIONAL TRAP CHARACTERISTIC FOR SEVERAL CENTURIES OF RUSSIAN HISTORY Alexander AUZAN - specially for Novaya "IN In Russia, everything changes in five years, but nothing changes in 200 years.” This coined formula of Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin outlined the symptoms of the tragic problem of Russian historical development.

PERESTROIKA INITIATED BY MIKHAIL SERGEEVICH GORBACHEV WAS, IN MY VIEW, A THIRD SERIOUS ATTEMPT TO OVERCOME THE INSTITUTIONAL TRAP CHARACTERISTIC FOR SEVERAL CENTURIES OF RUSSIAN HISTORY Alexander AUZAN - specially for Novaya “In Russia, everything changes in five years, but nothing changes in 200 years.” This coined formula of Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin outlined the symptoms of the tragic problem of Russian historical development.

Why did Mikhail Gorbachev decide not to imitate and false start, not to take the usual role of the leader of “stagnation,” but to take an extremely risky historical turn? And the risks, we admit now, were indeed very serious and led to serious consequences. Is it possible to consider that he accidentally found himself at the head of the country during this historical turn?

For 200 years, Russia has been divided by disputes between Westerners and Slavophiles, socialists and liberals over who the “Russian man” is: a community member or a developing personality, an individualist or a collectivist. We can now talk about some of the reasons for resolving this dispute.

The new social contract returns us to the usual rut, from which it takes a long time to crawl out, with a serious goal Alexander AUZAN, dean of the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University, spoke about the fate of the consumer society in post-Crimean Russia, the search for new values ​​and the horizon in which the social contract of 2014 operates. How long will the Russian authorities be able to pay all their bills by citing the fact that we are now a great power again?

The characters in the new NTV film exposing election observers gave comments to Novaya The next episode of the “Emergency” program, entitled “Master Class for Provocateurs,” was released at 19.40 on September 11 and was dedicated to a seminar for election observers, which took place on August 8 and 9 at the Izmailovo Hotel. Yasenevo municipal deputy Sergei Mendeleev and Lithuanian politician Mindaugas Lapinskas spoke at the seminar.