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…
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…
Viktor Kogan-Yasny: Thoughts in a troubled time
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…
Viktor Kogan-Yasny: On the Danger of War
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,…
Viktor Kogan-Yasny on Andrei Sakharov: “I hope that young people today will respect Sakharov, and not just themselves.”
21 May 2021 Speech at a Yabloko event organised in honour of Andrei Sakharov, marking his centenary by Viktor Kogan-Yasny I apologise if this is a bit of an excursion…
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…