The expert of political and regional communications Ilya Ananyev writes : “The political regimes in which there is a gerontological aspect of the personality of the country, inevitably face the need for systemic confirmation of the correlation of their age with the possibility of a good physical form and demonstrating the signal to the elites and the population -“ I am in order and can rule the country.

The most interesting of our notes in the week: Journalist Maxim Trustlyubov is about personal responsibility : “ If you think that all decisions are made in the Kremlin, are now bad, but wait for good ones, then this is still a mistake, because it is not worth counting on it. Therefore, this point needs to be transferred, rather, to itself and decide with which picture of the world to live.

Political scientist Ilya Grashchenkov writes : “Political parties experience a crisis in Russia. According to sociologists, more than 60% of respondents believe that there is no political force representing their interests. Supporters of the authoritarian management system catch a hype on this sociology, urging them to abandon the elections and politics, and supporters of democracy are looking for thematic blocks that could interest voters. <...>. Political parties are generally not everywhere.

Andrei Iserov writes deputy dean of the faculty of humanitarian sciences “Higher School of Economics”: “The Caucasus is not the most huge space, but the connecting link between the two seas, forest and the steppe. This is an ancient land, it has always been an economic intersection. The steppes have always been a gate of invasions from the East, and some peoples of Dagestan are the descendants of these waves of invasions.

Journalist Alexander Baunov writes about the attitude of the Russian government to the Karabakh conflict: “It seems that the defeat of Karabakh is perceived by the Russian leadership for granted not only from the inability to change the course of events, but also because in its current coordinate system there is a certificate of correctness, and weakness is a sign of guilt. We must fight, become strong, or to be friends with strong.

Member of the Council for Human Rights under the President of the Russian Federation, editor -in -chief of REGNUM IA Marina Akhmedova writes : “What was there to write about the fact that the Parliament of Canada and Zelensky who was there welcomed the applause of the old Ukrainian Nazi, who served in the SS? A year and a half, a year ago it would have hurt me, and I would write something in the spirit - "They return!

Journalist Ben Hall writes in The Financial Times about a complex dilemma that is facing the leadership of Ukraine: “The probability of a long conflict sets a difficult task for Kyiv: how long will it have to wait before updating the mandate of the current political leadership? Is it necessary to show everyone their democracy and hold the parliamentary and presidential elections despite the difficulties related to maintaining security, logistics and the legality of all measures?

Political scientist Dmitry Mikhailichenko writes about how the Russians cope with the conflict between the government and society: “The outflow of the population and the departure from the conflict is a universal recipe for the development of Russian sociality: endless expanses made this care possible even when technologies did not allow mass migration quickly.

The most interesting of our notes in the week: Journalist Maxim Trustlyubov is about personal responsibility : “ If you think that all decisions are made in the Kremlin, are now bad, but you wait for good ones good, then this is all a mistake, because it is not worth counting on it. Therefore, this point needs to be transferred, rather, to itself and decide with which picture of the world to live.

Professor of the Royal College of London and a Russian policy specialist Sam Green writes in Foreign Affairs about what logic is behind the actions of Western countries regarding Russia: “The model on which the understanding of Russian politics was based on Western analysts and experts implied that if we deprive the Russian elites of their assets in the West, this would lead to a violation of the work of the political coordination system in Russia.

In the book of Paul Steinhardt “The impossibility of the second kind. Incredible searches for a new form of substance ”fascinating and accessible in the first person tells the story of an amazing scientific discovery.

The author of the podcast “This is the basis” Alexander Zamyatin writes why a guide to “Democracy, as in Switzerland” is problematic: ““ Direct democracy, as in Switzerland, ”is often mentioned as an ideal that we cannot achieve, but which we must strive for. Each time in a collision with this thought, something very confuses me. Now I realized that. Two things where the second is more interesting than the first. 1. The Swiss political system, of course, is not the ideal of democracy.

Journalist Anush Chakelyan writes in The New Statesman: “Russian peacekeepers had to hold the Lachin corridor opened , to defend Armenians and their legacy in Nagorno -Karabakh. Armenia, which managed to be in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, stayed for a long time “in the bitter-sweet bear hugs” of Moscow.

Economist Igor Lipsitz on the YouTube channel “Khodorkovsky Live ” (Mikhail Khodorkovsky was included in the register of foreign agents -Polit.ru) says : “It is necessary to open and see what is behind the words (Vladimir Putin - Polit.ru) is located. And then the picture is clarified that yes, some restoration occurred. The term recovery growth is used.

Polit.ru introduces readers with books included in the long list of applicants for the Enlightener. Transportation Award of 2023. The prize for the fourth time notes the best works of editors and translators of popular science literature into Russian. In total, twenty books were included in a long list. A short list of the Enlightener. Transportation Prize will be announced until the end of September.