To Admit Guilt For Nonexistent Crimes Is

The Right To Private Property Meant At The Same Time The Right And Duty To Be Personally Concerned About Your Own Well-being, To Be Personally Concerned About Your Family's Income, To Be Personally Concerned About Your Future. This Is Hard Work.

It's A Very Erroneous Strategy To Try To Push The Russian Opposition To Unite. First Of All, The Opposition Is Addressing Different Parts Of Russian Society That Have Differing Points Of View. And Besides, A United Opposition Is A Nice Big Target That The Authorities Have A Much Easier Time Fighting. And Besides, Resisting An Authoritarian Regime With An Authoritarian Opposition Merely Means That, In The Event Of Victory, You're Just Doing Yet Another Round Of The Same Old, Same Old.

Part Of The People Here Are Interested In The Same Thing That Putin Is Interested In: Putin Wants To Have America As An Enemy. Part Of Americans Want To Have Russia As An Enemy. It's Advantageous. The Other Part Of The People Are Just Ordinary People. And These People Project Onto Big Objects The Kind Of Relations That They Have With Small Objects In Their Everyday Lives.

My Parents Were Muscovites. They Worked At The Kaliber Factory.

People Expect Some Kinds Of Decisions From Putin That Will Help Them See Their Own Future. A Significant Part Of The People That He Relies On Are Quite Content With Him Telling Them That Nothing Is Going To Change. But That Part Of The Elite That Does Want To See Some Changes And Improvements Are Going To Expect Him To, In His Next Term, Bring Russia Back Into The Club Of The Great Powers.