About the emigration of Sergei Guriev

Sergey Guriev is the Chairman of the Council of the Dynasty Foundation, and it is difficult to overestimate the benefits that he brings in this position. I really hope that we will be able to arrange work at a distance.

Although Sergei, in his words, "has no complaints either against Vladimir Putin or Dmitry Medvedev," it seems to me that this is not entirely true. In any case, Sergei's departure is a very unambiguous expression of "trust" in the head of state and/or his ability to manage the situation, as well as a sign of further damage to the reputation of what we call "power." I have an assumption that one of the main reasons for the catastrophe of 1917 is precisely the loss of reputation by the government institutions during the reign of Tsar Nicholas II. Here and Rasputin, and state Orthodoxy, and the case of Beilis with the protocols of the Elders of Zion and the Black Hundreds. The disgust from the very concept of "power" was so great that even the arrival of highly worthy people (Prince Lvov, for example) did not save it, and the country submitted to adventurers who professed anti-values.

And so the country, without any hesitation, followed the people who unleashed terror against, first of all, those who were associated with the ruling elite, terror in which all segments of the population willingly participated, and someone from the former elite himself went to the service of his enemies , experiencing, perhaps, feelings and having, perhaps, motivation a little more understandable to me now ...