Is the comparison of the Russian regime with fascism justified? The attack on Ukraine put the regime of Vladimir Putin to new challenges. First of all, to the need to justify aggression and, accordingly, to the need for a deeper and more expressive study and processing of those ideologies, cliches and narratives that justified its course in recent years. Full -scale military aggression against a neighboring country from these ideologies and narratives did not flow in any way.

The results of surveys about the attitude of Russians to the war were caused by acute discussions: some see in them the proof of the imperial-Militarian spirit that reigning in Russia, others, on the contrary, declare them irrelevant in wartime conditions. Re: Russia analyzed all available data on the attitude to war, collected by both large sociological centers and independent Pollster teams, the main arguments of the unfolding discussion and the results of survey experiments.

Why are energy wars inevitable and what will the energy wars lead to? Western countries are tensely looking for ways to organize an oil and gas embargo against Russia. However, in addition to the lack of real consent, even in relation to the oil embargo, in general, the answer to the question of how to deprive Russia of income from oil and gas exports is completely not obvious. It is not enough simply “political will”, as it seems to many.