26 March 2022 A few thoughts, not drawn from books (from my Vkontakte feed) by Viktor Kogan-Yasny Russia’s church tradition, enveloped in Soviet education and a post-Soviet matrix of pronounced…
26 March 2022 Some Reflections by Viktor Kogan-Yasny There are people who hate freedom in all its forms, and freedom of choice in particular. For them, any choice is merely…
21 March 2022 by Viktor Kogan-Yasny The Donbas has been a bleeding wound in Ukraine and Europe as a whole for eight years of brutal violence. What has happened is…
16 March 2022 by Viktor Kogan-Yasny, writer, political and civil society activist and commentator, advisor to the chair of the Yabloko party In Soviet times, the collective West proceeded from…
16 March 2022 by Viktor Kogan-Yasny, writer, political and civil society activist and commentator, advisor to the chair of the Yabloko party Analysing surveys of public opinion in a dictatorship…
5 March 2022 by Viktor Kogan-Yasny, writer, political and civil society activist and commentator, advisor to the chair of the Yabloko party * On Putin What is Putin doing in…
19 December 2021 by Viktor Kogan-Yasny Romantic nationalism, in which the people and the state are ascribed individuality and a soul in addition to a range of other peculiar features,…
26 June 2021 by Viktor Kogan-Yasny In 1953, my parents lost the opportunity to live and work in Kharkov because of my grandfather’s arrest in the so-called 'Doctors’ Plot' (my…
27 June 2021 by Viktor Kogan-Yasny The question that came up in Geneva, for me, is a very real one. When tension grows, grows and grows, it becomes practically inevitable…
1 December 2020 By Viktor Kogan-Yasny Russian history of the previous and current century has been marked by immaturity: the inability (and lack of need) to see that the world…