*** September 23: This text was written before the announcement of the [in]partial mobilization. Without agreeing, we left the content of the performance unchanged. The day became longer, and the unknown, freezing and forced relocation became even [it would seem much] closer, the distance decreased. From this simultaneous relevance and retrospect, we suggest looking at the text.

This article was published by us exactly twenty years ago in the Unified Art Rating publication. Directory. Issue 6. Nomination "Architects". - M.: ALEV-V, 2002, pp. 18-23. They said that this text caused a lot of noise, causing the righteous anger of the architectural authorities of the Russian capital. For some time, the article could be found on the Internet, but then it was deleted from the Internet without a trace. But this is not the most interesting thing.

On September 21 vladimir putin announced “partial mobilization” in the russian federation. Just like “special operation” is war, a “partial mobilization” is actually a random mobilization of everyone they can get, and it is called “partial” in order not to provoke panic. ​​​​​​​After fake referendums, on September 30, putin signed a decree about the annexation of Donetsk, Luhansk, Herson and Zaporizhzhia regions.

This is the text of the historical project “barmalei/partisans” - a team of journalists who decided that there are so many analogies and echoes between modern Russia and the events of the 20th century that why not make a media about it. If you have long wanted to understand the ideas of anarchism, now is the time for this, because in the era of military dictatorship, anarchism is becoming the most relevant political doctrine.

This is the text of the historical project “barmalei/partisans” - a team of journalists who decided that there are so many analogies and echoes between modern Russia and the events of the 20th century that why not make a media about it. Students very often act as the driving force behind uprisings in authoritarian countries - but if the dictatorship manages to survive, then they become its main victims.

This is an English translation from the Russian of our publication dated May 23, 2020 If you are more comfortable watching and listening to videos than reading this text, you are welcome to this link: https://youtu.be/m-1cxrdx1Qk The COVID-19 pandemic as a global precedent marked the horizons of the future with its new behavioral patterns and the know-hows that have already become conventional in terms of police implementation of top-notch technology that could be collectively referred to as

This is the text of the historical project “barmalei/partisans” - a team of journalists who decided that there are so many analogies and echoes between modern Russia and the events of the 20th century that why not make a media about it. All the abominations of the Russian regime that we face were already encountered in the dictatorships of the past.

This material was first published here on 05/23/2020 ↓ The COVID-19 pandemic, as a global precedent, has outlined the possible horizons of the future with its new behavioral models and already conventional know-how in terms of the police use of high technologies, collectively referred to as the “new normal” The Chinese experience of introducing a social rating system that monitors law-abidingness, honesty, and consumer behavior of citizens in government-controlled territories, the Moscow

This is the text of the historical project “barmalei/partisans” - a team of journalists who decided that there are so many analogies and echoes between modern Russia and the events of the 20th century that why not make a media about it. Fortunately for the citizens of their countries, any dictators are mortal, no matter how much they themselves sometimes want to convince themselves of the opposite.

Francisco Goya. Atropa. 1828-1830 This material was first published here on April 23, 2021. “As soon as writing and everything else that is necessary for city life have time to develop, again and again at the appointed time, streams fall from the heavens like a pestilence, leaving all of you only illiterate and unlearned. And you start all over again, as if you were just born, not knowing anything about what happened in ancient times." Plato.