Project "After" - 2023

“After” is one of the most important for the editorial office of Polit.ru projects. For almost two years now we have been talking with a variety of people - scientists, writers, political scientists, journalists, businessmen - about what it is after. Does Russia have a future? Where to look for your “not very terrible Russia of the future”? Well, yes, like this - “not very terrible”, we are modest realists, and not rampant optimists.

Among our guests were statesmen and critics of the regime, there were foreign agents, and some became foreign agents after we talked with them (but we hope - not because we talked with them). We do not close in ourselves, do not look for unconditional like -minded people. We are looking for those who have something to say.

Each conversation is valuable to us. And the holidays are just a great time to carefully re -read all the materials of the project “after”. Or revise - for those who are not trained in literacy or are simply lazy, there is a video.

More than thirty conversations took place in the year, and those below are not “top”, not “the best”. All the best. And these ten are just a demonstration of the wealth that we have accumulated.

Gleb Pavlovsky. "We must decide on the place, with the area of ​​the future." In February 2023, Gleb Olegovich Pavlovsky was gone. This is perhaps the last of his interviews. And the tribute of memory to a brilliant interlocutor, a serious thinker, a person who was able to live and think beautifully.

Vladimir Pastukhov (entered by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in the register of foreign agents). “We have no other way but to be“ political left -handed people ”. A slyly conceived recipe for real federalization for Russia.

Gleb Morev: “Culture always wins, and the state always turns out to be its ridiculous persecutor.” Perhaps an overly optimistic story about why, in a strategic perspective, any obscurantism is doomed.

Andrei Ignatiev: "The leader will appear on a white horse and the radiance of his charisma will transform reality." The battle of ideologists with pragmatists and the contours of future utopias.

Grigory Golosov: "Democratization is one of the most likely options for Russia in the medium term." Calm and balanced political science analysis that helps a little less afraid of tomorrow.

Svetlana Adonyeva: "Chaos and a new agreement." Sacred in the Soviet era and sacred now, the power of the "melodramatic modality" and the values ​​of the future.

Boris Kupriyanov: "The future is only in one - in thinking and doing." Do what you can and do not think about what will happen. There will be something.

"Ethos and pathos of modern war." The discussion of Vitaly Leibin and Pavel Shchelin about the value component of the "last argument of the kings."

Kirill Rogov (included by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in the register of foreign agents): "What will happen after Putin is happening today." There is no predetermination, and any changes are possible. Even changes for the better.

Dmitry Potapenko: "Vladimir Vladimirovich will rule the country for the next 15 years." Believe me, it's just fun. Well, in its own way.

And in the new year there will be new conversations. Look at the light.