We publish the chapter from the publishing book “Social -Democratic Alternative” , written by three deputies of the State Duma from “Fair Russia” - Valery Zubov, Sergey Petrov and Alexei Chepa - and political scientist Alexei Makarkin. The book is devoted to opportunities for social democracy in modern Russia-including in connection with the problem of rooting this ideology in Russian history.

With approximately 25 million Russians remaining outside the RSFSR after the collapse of the Soviet Union, post-communist Russia had to develop a strategy aimed at protecting them from oppression and helping them preserve their ethnic and cultural identity. However, the Russian elites failed to do this, and there is plenty of evidence of this.

Who can say: Gudbay, America March 7, 2014, Oleg Kozlovsky On March 6, Barack Obama signed a decree on blocking the property involved in the situation in Ukraine. The decree provides for both the freezing of assets in the jurisdiction of the United States and the ban on entry for certain categories of persons. The list of the US Treasury should be made up, and it will probably be published.

In contrast to the Russian elite, which certainly didn’t worry about anything when, with infantile fervor, it chose some committee for the protection of rare amphorae from the Siberian Crane vultures as the author of a letter to the Nobel Committee. These unfortunate people have to knock on the keys - how to cross the Roki tunnel for Russian troops, swim across the Kerch Strait, or sell weapons to Hezbollah and Hamas through third countries.

“Putin bet on the crisis - and, perhaps, broke the whole bank,” Alexey Venediktov wrote the honest truth. Yes, he may have ripped it off. Perhaps even all of it. There are several possible forks here. And only one thing is absolutely guaranteed: that we will receive a candelabra on the head for all Putin’s tricks from Mother Clio. Those on whose behalf he swaggers.