Viktor Kogan-Yasny: Change is inevitable in Russia
19 - 25 April 2023 by Viktor Kogan Yasny A philosophy for Europe All issues concerning Ukraine should be considered in accordance with the principles of pan-European security and stability…
Viktor Kogan-Yasny: A person of principle is an advocate of peace
27 March 2023 Thoughts [16 February - 24 March 2023] by Viktor Kogan-Yasny 16 February 2023 Elena Georgievna Bonner was a kind person, at times outwardly severe in manner, but…
Viktor Kogan-Yasny: We shall see the triumph of insanity and cruelty
7 - 20 January 2023 by Viktor Kogan-Yasny A corporate state Everywhere (or almost everywhere) in the former USSR the model of a corporate state has come into being in…
Viktor Kogan-Yasny: Russians can be ‘divided’ into the ‘law-abiding’ and ‘freeloaders’
15 December 2022 by Viktor Kogan-Yasny In my opinion, apart from the most important things that are happening today when people are dying, when people are constantly suffering with no…
Viktor Kogan-Yasny: ‘There is no hiding from Russia as long as it exists’
13 November 2022 by Viktor Kogan-Yasny A Turning Point in the Development of Russian Society In Russia there is a whole series of obstacles in the way of the development…
Viktor Kogan-Yasny: A Civilizational Fracture
19 October 2022 by Viktor Kogan-Yasny Source: Relga A civilizational fracture is shaping up between various kinds of state-bureaucratic “fundamentalism” that we might characterize as the Z-state vs. the Euro-state.…
Viktor Kogan-Yasny: ‘The problem is global. And it will have to be dealt with globally.’
8 October 2022 by Viktor Kogan-Yasny From my archive I ask forgiveness, this is a rough sketch, a train of thought, superficial writing and not a professional analysis of interrelationships.…
Viktor Kogan-Yasny: Another ‘note in the margins’
3 June 2022 by Viktor Kogan-Yasny Source: Facebook For some reason, in terms of political philosophy, it’s as though official Ukraine and the Western world have succumbed to Bolshevik-Leninists with…
Viktor Kogan-Yasny: Russia’s church tradition essentially rejects humanism
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…
Viktor Kogan-Yasny: There are people who hate freedom in all its forms, and freedom of choice in particular.
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…