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: The moral value lies in the preservation of life and of peace
7 November 2022 by Viktor Kogan Yasny On responsibility The public expression of sympathy for the victims of lawlessness is the right of each one of us, although there is…
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…
Viktor Kogan-Yasny: The Donbas has been a bleeding wound in Ukraine and Europe as a whole for eight years of brutal violence
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…
Viktor Kogan-Yasny: The West and the responsibility of all Russians for Russia’s sins
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…