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Kolesnikov: TV coverage showed media circus ahead of longest-ever message, but president trod familiar ground; massive spending plans, nuclear saber rattling put spectators to sleep.
The year 2023 has seen a noticeable intensification of Russian-North Korean interaction, confirmed by the active exchange of mutual visits. In summer 2023, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu visited Pyongyang; in September, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Vladivostok and met with Russian President Vladimir Putin; and in October, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov went to the DPRK.
Zavadskaya: Navalny’s murder ‘great human tragedy’ that marks major turning point for the Russian regime; Navalny and his team have built a ‘structural frame’ for a new political system; people must not now ‘give up,’ be silent.
Gozman on Navalny: ‘Victory was ultimately his’; ‘he proved himself worthy’ of democratic cause, ‘retained a dignity unknown to many.’
Sapozhnikov: Hype surrounding Carlson’s visit result of Russia’s isolation after Ukraine war, represents Russia’s yearning for ties with West.
The State Duma has unanimously adopted the “Law on Amendments to the Criminal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code Concerning Liability for Crimes Against the Security Interests of the Russian Federation.”
Presidents of China, Russia agree to further bilateral ties in phone call.
REALISTS believe that human nature is inherently flawed (the legacy of Hobbes’s anthropological pessimism and, on an even deeper level, the legacy of the Christian idea of the Fall, or lapsus in Latin) and cannot be fundamentally corrected, which means that selfishness, predation, and violence are impossible to eradicate. This leads to the conclusion that man (who, according to Hobbes, is a wolf to another man) can only be restrained and regulated by means of a strong state. The state is inevitable and is the bearer of supreme sovereignty. At the same time, the predatory and egoistic nature of man is projected onto the state; therefore, the nation-state has its own interests. These interests take into account only their own state, while the will to violence and greed mean war is always a possibility. Realists believe that this has always been and always will be.
NG: Presidential election is designed to show that the leftist electorate is miniscule after government’s crackdown on political space.
NG: Medvedev being used to float radical goals for Ukraine war with public.