For the project “After”, Ivan Davydov talked with political scientist Kirill Rogov* - whether the current situation was predetermined, about how liberalization can begin in Russia and who will begin it, and about what is the return to normality for us.

Leonid Chutko Polit.ru introduces readers to the books included in the long list of candidates for the 2023 Enlightenment Prize. Twenty books were selected from more than 130 nominated by various publishers. The short list for the Enlightener Prize will be announced before the end of September. The Portal publishing house presents Leonid Chutko’s book “No Strength.

Member of our project “After”, sociologist and publicist Nikolai Mitrokhin (entered by the Ministry of Justice in the register of foreign agents) writes : “The people are interested in why I have such attention to the Nazis (acting and former), while the Anti -Putin Front should be attached and all together in a single struggle move to a bright future. <...> In fact, I see three problems here: 1.

Member of our projects “After” and “Man and Power”, political scientist Grigory Golosov comments on the dispute of Alexei Navalny (included in the register of terrorists and extremists - Polit.ru) and Maxim Katz (entered into the register of foreign agents - Polit.ru): “I do not find the topic of coalition policy important in the current Russian situation.

Katerina Mikhaleva-Eger Polit.ru introduces readers with books included in the long list of applicants for the Enlightener Award of 2023. Twenty books of more than 130, put forward by various publishers, were selected into it. The short list of the Enlightener prize will be announced until the end of September.

An expert at the Center for Political Conjuncture, creator of the “Nepolitologist” project, Mikhail Karigyan writes : “The mood of Russians. Main Anxiety trend The level of anxiety in Russian society has been continuously decreasing since the beginning of September, reaching its minimum values ​​over the past year – 39 percentage points. However, it is difficult to talk about the sustainability of this trend. There are enough risk factors on the agenda.

Publicist Anatoly Nesmiyan writes about the position of Gazprom and the planned increase in gas prices in the domestic market: “Gazprom reported yesterday according to the indicators for the first half of the year. They are predictably worse than last year - both in extraction and export. About a quarter compared to last year. Which was also a failure. In total, it is expected that Gazprom’s income from gas sale in the previously previously European market this year will fall by 75 percent.

Philologist and culturologist Hasan Huseynov on the YouTube channel “About the country and the world” says : “The language is ready for people all the time. And one of these traps <...> the most terrible <...> is a trap of belonging to the great whole, to the great community, to the great history. This is a trap. This is not even the XIX century, if we talk about some stages, this is a completely different era. This is our time, so all the analogies do not work here.

Political scientist Alexei Makarkin writes : "1. For the authorities of Azerbaijan, the heads of the NKR are separatists who violated the legislation of the country. <...> The task of Ilham Aliyev is not only a complete dismantling of the statehood of the NKR, including the liquidation of institutions, <...> but also the arrest of those leaders who will be able to detain.

Politician Lev Schlosberg (entered by the Ministry of Justice in the register of foreign agents - Polit.ru) writes : “The agenda of the meeting of Aliyev and Pashinyan in Spain has not been publicly announced, but most likely, this will be the legal consolidation of the complete and final surrender of Nagorno -Karabakh and the unlimited refusal of Armenia to support it even after the liquidation. I believe that Aliyev will continue the pressure and require new concessions and guarantees.

The editor -in -chief of the Russian People's Line Anatoly Stepanov writes : “What is the untruthful and utopian of the theses of Surkov? First. Of course, in the West, in Europe, first of all, in Germany there are representatives of the elite who are unhappy with the course of the Scholyts and the EU leadership for the full subordination of the United States.

Mark Hannah , senior researcher at the Eurasia Group Foundation analytical center in Politico about why you can’t accept Ukraine in NATO: “ NATO exists in order to protect those countries that are already democratic, but it has not been created at all in order to engage in the promotion of democracy. Thus, Ukraine’s membership in NATO, contrary to common sense, will not help Kyiv become an even more democratic country.

Political scientist Abbas Gallamov (entered by the Ministry of Justice in the register of foreign agents - Polit.ru) writes : “Putin accepted <...> Kadyrov for the same purpose with which he showed the previously sensational video. Both really want to reproduce their favorite context: "I wanted to spit on your opinion." It seems to them that this is precisely the power. <...> The only problem is that this time they spit not only on the opinions of supporters of the opposition.

Telegram channel "Naive Politicalology" writes : “In the midst of“ good Russians ”, there was a belief that the potential defeat of the Kremlin in the Ukrainian conflict would bury Russian imperialism.

The book of an authoritative fashion expert Katerina Mikhaleva-Eger “ 350 years of modern fashion, or the social history of one everyday phenomenon ” radically changes the idea of ​​fashion as a banal change of styles. After all, this is the first integral presentation of the history of fashion as a special phenomenon of the Civilization of the West, woven into its chronicle from the Old Testament sources to neurobiological discoveries of the XXI century.