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Garbuzov: Autocratic regimes build historical myths to legitimize themselves in people’s eyes.
This article examines changes in Russia’s politics of memory at the turn of the 2020s, the balance of forces between mnemonic actors, external conditions, and internal modalities of the struggle for political use of the historical past.
Pollster: Paradoxically, Russian war supporters don’t identify with ruling elites
Ukrainian Pollster: Passivity indicates Russians have learned to live with war.
Sova Center’s Verkhovsky: Russia’s political regime cannot change in the current situation.
Taratorin: Putin, Lukashenko talk economy, security as PMC Wagner sets up shop in Belarus.
NG: Prigozhin’s special post-coup status changes calculus of power struggles.
The Concept confirms our choice in favor of an independent development path. It stresses Russia’s role in maintaining the balance of power in international affairs, as well as its status as a unique nation and civilization and a vast Eurasian and Euro-Pacific power.
Even by the most conservative estimates, precious metals and diamonds worth over $100 million could have fallen under Yevgeny Prigozhin’s control….
Military expert and political analyst Yury Fyodorov: Putin has been weakened because he let rebellion happen, lost control of situation; neutrality of military, security personnel may mean they won’t kill Progozhin if ordered to.