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Read more about the article Viktor Kogan-Yasny: Public opinion in a dictatorship: Crimea, the Constitution, etc.

Viktor Kogan-Yasny: Public opinion in a dictatorship: Crimea, the Constitution, etc.

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…

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Read more about the article Viktor Kogan-Yasny: “Doctor, you swear not like a miner, but like a shoemaker”

Viktor Kogan-Yasny: “Doctor, you swear not like a miner, but like a shoemaker”

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…

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Read more about the article Viktor Kogan-Yasny: Even a very small event in US-Russian relations today looks like a breakthrough

Viktor Kogan-Yasny: Even a very small event in US-Russian relations today looks like a breakthrough

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…

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Read more about the article Viktor Kogan-Yasny: “We were mistaken when we thought that the Communist utopia had been defeated by the desire for development and responsibility, that globalism had prevailed over self-isolation and suspicion, adulthood over infantilism.”

Viktor Kogan-Yasny: “We were mistaken when we thought that the Communist utopia had been defeated by the desire for development and responsibility, that globalism had prevailed over self-isolation and suspicion, adulthood over infantilism.”

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…

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