(chapters from the book Portrait Critique de la Russie: Essais Sur La Société Gothique , Trad. par by Nina Kehayan, Eds. De l'Aube, 2012, 240 pp.) 1. RF - the Republic of Feudalov? If we choose one word that writers and politicians, journalists and businessmen, activists of the Putin youth movement “Ours” and opposition leaders, intellectuals and human rights activists, will be characterized by Putin Russia today, this word will be the Middle Ages. Since the mid-2000s.