Especially for the "Kremlin without towers" -.
Naive political science telegram channel.
About Novaya Gazeta* and the Caucasus.
When talking about the closure of the Russian editorial system of Novaya Gazeta*, the vast majority of authors write about the struggle between civil society and the authorities. By and large, the same line is being developed by the supporters of its closure among the intelligentsia, who for some unknown reason see themselves as part of the government, and not of society. Less mentioned are the newspaper's connections with the head of Rostec, Sergei Chemazov, the first and last president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, and other people who are or were fully part of the system.
In this context, the most interesting are the comments on the final funeral of liberal-chekism: today it seems that the interests of the security elite are really directed in a fundamentally opposite direction than 30 or 20 years ago: private property, democratic procedures, security and predictability for some reason have gone out of fashion, although it seems that right now, when the community begins the greatest success, it has reached the greatest profit. The only logical explanation is the imminent "delocalization" of the oligarchy created at the current political stage: in the concept of transition, the power player who fills the assets belonging to the Kovalchuks, Rothenbergs and other Roldogins will by default become the hero in the concept of society. And if after that he also returns the rights and freedoms that were stolen in the last quarter of a century, the ratings will start to fall off the scale. In such a model, a potential successor enjoys maximum chaos, dehumanization and corruption today. as a foundation from which to build.
However, we will return to "new"*.