Thanks. I write mainly in Russian, about SF, books, science, culture, and politics, but for the last two years, since the Russian brutal decoupling from the EU began, also frequently in English. I left Russia long ago, but I'm still interested in matters concerning Eastern Europe as a whole, where a new bleeding wound emerged to trouble both EU and Russia for the foreseeable future. My heart lies heavy with constant grief and guilt under the weight of all what is happening, and its imminent consequences. To better understand my political and cultural views, sample https://medium.com/p/57fe887f3898

Despite this, some folks here consider me pro-Putin paid troll because of unorthodox position, approximately equicritical, so to speak, to Putin, Zelensky, and Biden administration. (I’d like to remind them that in China’s Warring States era, which I consider good enough template of modern turbulence, there were more than a couple of contenders, each to their own understanding of the common good to strive for Under Heaven, ands Qin’s victory happened not only due to its efficiency, however cruel, but because of internal struggles across the plain and import of Fa chia’s antihumane state management ideas to Qin.)

You are warned.