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About a year ago, I was conversing with a demographics student at the Higher School of Economics who wants to work at Rosstat after his graduation. One of the things we discussed stuck out in my mind: "Wouldn't it be great if there was an Albion's Seed for Russia?" That is, an exhaustive ethnographic survey... Read More
In one of the recent posts on corruption, commentator AP wrote: Is this true? Seeing as how the Russian state doesn't release Unified State Exam (USE) results by region, probably due to PC considerations, at first this assertion might appear to be unanswerable. However, there is a way to get round the problem. (1) We... Read More
In most Russian bookstores, there is a bookshelf or two dedicated to so-called "patriotic literature" - reappraisals of Stalin against "liberal revisionism", overviews of Russia's secret super-weapons, the exploits of its special forces and Russian theo-philosophy. Much of it is (apparent) nonsense, but the economic crisis has forced me to reconsider one particular "patriotic" thesis... Read More
I am a blogger, thinker, and businessman in the SF Bay Area. I’m originally from Russia, spent many years in Britain, and studied at U.C. Berkeley.
One of my tenets is that ideologies tend to suck. As such, I hesitate about attaching labels to myself. That said, if it’s really necessary, I suppose “liberal-conservative neoreactionary” would be close enough.
Though I consider myself part of the Orthodox Church, my philosophy and spiritual views are more influenced by digital physics, Gnosticism, and Russian cosmism than anything specifically Judeo-Christian.