"The Russian person is wide, I would narrow!" - Dreamed Mitya Karamazov. Why? Recently, I myself, not wanting it, became a member of the psychological experiment. Well, you seem to go to the couch of a psychoanalyst, close your eyes, and he will sprinkle you with the words: “wet”, “forward”, “transparency” - and you answer him: “beer”, “for the homeland”, “monopongation of diphtongic combinations” ... so that he makes a diagnosis: “Yes, my friend, it’s time to heal” ...

Russian nationalism was formed in the 1860s and 1870s in a situation of active confrontation and internal polemic not only, but not so much with the traditional imperial project, but in clashes on several main problematic points, where the composition of the warring parties and their programs were complex and diverse, not reduced to simple schemes.

For two months in a row I am following the development of an ugly scandal with Grant Wapers. I follow with irritation, sometimes turning into anger.

The habitual poster, caricature or documentary images, which are believed to provoke a political decision, have their own background, which explains a lot in the breakdowns and failures of visual “mobilization”.