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This article examines changes in Russia’s politics of memory at the turn of the 2020s, the balance of forces between mnemonic actors, external conditions, and internal modalities of the struggle for political use of the historical past.

Pollster: Paradoxically, Russian war supporters don’t identify with ruling elites

Several recent incidents involving larger families during travel have highlighted the need for China to adapt to a different demographic after dropping its one-child policy.

Yelena Koneva, founder of and researcher at the ExtremeScan polling agency, tells Republic why the escalation of military events in Russia will lead Russian society to reject the war.

Adaptation strategies to such traumatic events as military conflicts are largely determined by assessments of these events. The purpose of this article is to describe the similarities and differences in the adaptation strategies of supporters and opponents of the Special Military Operation (SMO) in Ukraine.

Kurilla: Russians urgently need discussion on how regime reshaped their lives with Ukraine war

Gubin: In rage at Putin’s bestial war in Ukraine, Westerners embrace worst Russian vices: hate-filled irrationality, placing of collective guilt.

The metaverse makes inroads in China.

The Standard Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese, launched in 2004, is now in its fourth edition. The latest edition incorporates about 1,000 new phrases reflecting changes in China’s socioeconomic landscapes compared with its last revision eight years ago.

This article analyzes some aspects of civilizationism as a trend in the self-positioning strategies of several Asian states, notably China and India, as well as some other countries. Close attention is paid to the concept of the civilization state (CS), as distinct from the nation state (NS), where the former reveals the specific characteristics of the major non-Western states.