material: Rose Lux illustrations: Sofia Khananashvili Over the past few years (primarily at the instigation of economist Yanis Varoufakis), people are increasingly talking about “techno-feudalism” here and there. And if you think about how we rent a place, say, on Ozone, the association with land rented by a peasant is almost inevitable.

material: Fedya Otroshchenko illustrations: Sofia Khananashvili Today the Demagogue turns six years old. On this occasion, editor-in-chief Fedya Otroshchenko wrote a text about how a small student magazine, created during the pandemic, became a support during the war, a place for uniting people with similar views and interests, and most importantly, a source of joy. Thank you for staying with us! Without you there would be no magazine.

material: Demagogue illustrations: Sofia Khananashvili A few days ago a conference was held in Moscow on bookselling in Russia. The speakers spoke about the depressing situation of the book market: book prices are rising, buyers' salaries are falling, circulations have decreased by a quarter, and the number of bookstores in Russia is declining - now we are almost back to the figures of 2015.

material: Zinovy ​​Zinik illustrations: Sofia Khananashvili Any religious cult that borders on idolatry gives rise to its dissidents, dissidents and rebels.

material: Roman Polyakov illustrations: Sofia Khananashvili All episodes of Roman Polyakov's podcast about the history and culture of sex in modern Russia. This is a conversation about how the conversation about sex, intimacy and their cultural representation has changed. “We Had Sex” is a podcast about how the conversation about sex, intimacy and their cultural representation has changed in modern Russia. Podcast host Roma Polyakov, author of the Queerorama project.

material: Demagogue illustrations: Sofia Khananashvili Oksimiron’s concerts are being held all over the world, despite the accusations of grooming and sexualized violence that were voiced in Nastya Krasilnikova’s podcast “The Robber’s Daughter” and received wide publicity.

material: Sofia Khananashvili illustrations: Sofia Khananashvili Having finally recognized our millennialism, we decided to ask people about their hobbies and find something suitable for ourselves. For this purpose, the editors of Demagog magazine sent designer Sonya Khananashvili to interview one of the most famous bird observers, Alexander Borzenko.

material: Mark Lipovetsky illustrations: Sofia Khananashvili The publishing house “New Literary Review” is publishing a new book by Mark Lipovetsky, “The Soviet Trickster: The Cultural Heritage of Cynicism,” dedicated to popular characters of the Soviet era - from Julio Jurenito and Ostap Bender to Woland, Venichka and the heroes of Leonid Gaidai’s comedies. The trickster is the embodiment of the inextricable link between chaos and freedom: creative disorder and destructive self-will.

material: Rosa Lux, Maxim Slav illustrations: Sofia Khananashvili Since the beginning of the year, the level of trust in the Russian President has fallen by ten percentage points, showing the lowest values ​​since the beginning of the war. This news caused a stir, although the government's rating is still at extremely high levels.

material: Fedya Otroshchenko illustrations: Sofia Khananashvili Yesterday, April 21, Evgeny Kapyev, the head of the largest Russian publishing house Eksmo, as well as several other top managers of the company were detained and taken to the Investigative Committee. This is related to the “publishers case,” when in May 2025 a criminal case was opened against employees of Popcorn Books and Individuum for organizing the activities of an extremist organization and participating in it.

material: tony lashden illustrations: Sofia Khananashvili In April, the Myane Nyama publishing house published the book “On the Corner of Nezalezhnastsi” by Tony Lashden, a Belarusian writer and activist, founder of the feminist writing laboratory “Stretching”. This is a collection of stories about everyday life, which continues even against the backdrop of political and economic crises. Tony works with magic, mysticism and Belarusian folklore, but this time he adds humor to them.

material: Zinovy ​​Zinik illustrations: Sofia Khananashvili Following the hero of Zinovy ​​Zinik’s memoir novel “The Stolen Handwriting,” we continue to explore the world of underground Moscow in the late 1960s, getting to know new characters and the intricacies of connections between them.

material: Alexey Kruchkovsky illustrations: Sofia Khananashvili Poet Alexey Kruchkovsky, as part of his series of interviews with emigrated authors, spoke with Ilya Danishevsky, who recently published the books “Damocles Techno” and “The Bear and the Pendulum.” The writer talked about the art of computer games, books, cinema, moving and existing in other languages, inspiration and much more. The illustration uses a photograph of Sergei Bratkov — When did you realize yourself as a writer?

material: Varya Levontin illustrations: Sofia Khananashvili The modern culture of groupies—groupies who sleep with famous musicians—has its roots in two big phenomena of the 1960s: rock 'n' roll and second wave feminism. Sex then became associated with protest (“Make love, not war”): it’s not for nothing that when we talk about the sexual revolution, we first think of the Woodstock festival of 1969. Girls thus penetrated the male space of the rock scene, changing the history of music.

material: Fedya Otroshchenko illustrations: Sofia Khananashvili Since the beginning of this year, Demagogue has been receiving letters from Roskomnadzor, screenshots from well-wishers about how they write denunciations, Roskomnadzor’s responses to these well-wishers (thanks, but the magazine is already being checked), etc. After two days of blocking, we were able to restore our site and are preparing for new repressions.