School of hypocrisy. Valery Panyushkin on the Russian state’s demographic policy [Spektr.press]

24 November 2023 by Valery Panyushkin Source: Spektr.press By speaking out against abortions and asserting that a ban on them would improve the country’s demographic status “like waving a magic…

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Signs of decrepitude. Valery Panyushkin on the new “Naval Cadets” and other Russian anachronisms

10 November 2023 By Valery Panyushkin Source: Spektr.Press Can you imagine an action film in which the dashing swordsmen who are the main heroes are well past 60 while the…

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‘The old house’ – Valery Panyushkin on those who have left and those who have stayed behind

Photo: Wilson Center 28 October 2023 by Valery Panyushkin Source: Spektr.Press Sad circumstances (the serious illness of my father) forced me not so long ago to return to Moscow which…

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