Russia 2011-2021: Life After Death
A fundamental difference between developments in Russia 20 years ago and in Central Europe and the Baltic countries is that Russia has never had a democratic revolution.
The driving force of change was the ruling nomenklatura, which conceived and implemented a plan to convert its absolute collective political power into huge financial power for its individual members.
All the golden dreams of the Communist Party and KGB nomenklatura, which launched perestroika in the mid-1980s, have come true by now. What have they achieved as a result of this 20-year period? The total concentration of political power, just as before, but with huge personal fortunes they could not even have imagined and a completely different lifestyle (in Moscow’s exclusive Rublyovka neighborhood, Courchevel, or Sardinia).
Most importantly, the rulers no longer have any social and historical responsibility. Now they do not need to howl in unison: "The purpose of our life is ordinary people’s happiness." They were sick of that hypocrisy. Now they repeat matter-of-factly that the purpose of their lives is "the continuation of market reforms" and "getting Russia off its knees," though none of them believes that or even knows what it means. The regime has promised the people to take "unpopular but necessary measures" for 20 (!) consecutive years of reform as it was implementing measures very popular among a handful of people and aimed at their personal enrichment.
The history of authoritarian regimes succeeding one another in Russia reveals a pattern – they do not die from external blows of fate or attacks by their opponents. They tend to die suddenly of a strange sort of internal disease – the irresistible existential disgust for themselves, their own exhaustion and what Sartre described as the nausea ( la nausée ) of existence.
Today we are witnessing the Putin regime, which paved the political space with asphalt, waste away from the same chronic disease. The simulacrum of a big ideological style, it could hardly avoid such a fate. In its short biography of one decade it went through all the classic stages of Soviet history only to become a vulgar parody of each of them.
The ruling corporation has no people or ideas, or even desires. For them Francis Fukuyama’s end of history came a long time ago. Time stands still in the viscous eternity and our original Eurasian pride – the vertically structured government – is about to collapse to form yet another black hole of Russian history for the third time in less than a century.
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Writing competition about emigration accepting entries [Ukraine ...
Students at Ukrainian universities are invited to participate in a writing competition on the future of migration in Ukraine.
The competition, open to both Ukraine nationals and foreign students, aims to provide young people an opportunity to express their opinions, thoughts and ideas about future of migration in Ukraine stimulating academic and creative discussions among students at universities.
The context for the competition: the population of Ukraine is shrinking and aging at the same pace as its Western European neighbors. In 1990 the population of Ukraine was 51 million, while in 2010 and according to the State Statistics Department it was 45.5 million, continuing to shrink by 0.8% per year, according to the World Bank. During the same period of time, the country has also witnessed considerable changes in its migration patterns.
The writing competition is supported by the International Organization for Migration (Mission in Ukraine). The entries include essays, articles and creative projects, including multimedia. Participants in the articles category must be journalism or communications majors.
Entries can be submitted in Ukrainian, Russian or English. Prizes include a laptop, cell phones and invitation to the International conference “The Future of Migration in Ukraine” that will take place in October, 2011.
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