How Might the Violence in Ukraine Come to an End? - Spiegel
Me being rather melancholy (but not universally so) at the end of an article in DER SPIEGEL about the war's possible outcome (various scenarios) and the outcomes of these outcomes.
НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН, РАСПРОСТРАНЕН И (ИЛИ) НАПРАВЛЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ (НАИМЕНОВАНИЕ, ФАМИЛИЯ, ИМЯ ОТЧЕСТВО (ПРИ НАЛИЧИИ), СОДЕРЖАЩАЯСЯ В РЕЕСТР ИНОСТРАННЫХ АГЕНТОВ) ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА (НАИМЕНОВАНИЕ, ФАМИЛИЯ, ИМЯ, ОТЧЕСТВО (ПРИ НАЛИЧИИ), СОДЕРЖАЩАЯСЯ В РЕЕСТР ИНОСТРАННЫХ АГЕНТОВ)
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-year-after-putin-s-invasion-how-might-the-violence-in-ukraine-come-to-an-end-a-e01a431e-cb92-44f6-aed8-8fe538e27640
One is not really encouraged to insert literary quotes into political commentary - like, for example, this infinitely memorable phrase in Nabokov's later novel "a great breeze, ecstatic and clean, blowing away a lot of life's rot".
"Putin is 70 years old. Rumors have repeatedly made the rounds that he is suffering from cancer. But would Putinism disappear if the Russian leader were suddenly absent from the stage? Russian political scientist Ekaterina Schulmann, who works as a fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin, believes that even without Putin, "there would quite probably be an autocratic, resource-based government in Russia", since this was a likely outcome of a weak disinstutitionalised democracy of the 90s'. The war against Ukraine, however, may be Putin’s private obsession and only tolerated by the Russian elite out of opportunism. While the Ukrainian craze will probably end with the current generation of Security council elders, according to Schulmann, kleptocracy and personalisation of power may be harder to get rid of".
НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН, РАСПРОСТРАНЕН И (ИЛИ) НАПРАВЛЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ (НАИМЕНОВАНИЕ, ФАМИЛИЯ, ИМЯ ОТЧЕСТВО (ПРИ НАЛИЧИИ), СОДЕРЖАЩАЯСЯ В РЕЕСТР ИНОСТРАННЫХ АГЕНТОВ) ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА (НАИМЕНОВАНИЕ, ФАМИЛИЯ, ИМЯ, ОТЧЕСТВО (ПРИ НАЛИЧИИ), СОДЕРЖАЩАЯСЯ В РЕЕСТР ИНОСТРАННЫХ АГЕНТОВ)
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-year-after-putin-s-invasion-how-might-the-violence-in-ukraine-come-to-an-end-a-e01a431e-cb92-44f6-aed8-8fe538e27640
One is not really encouraged to insert literary quotes into political commentary - like, for example, this infinitely memorable phrase in Nabokov's later novel "a great breeze, ecstatic and clean, blowing away a lot of life's rot".
"Putin is 70 years old. Rumors have repeatedly made the rounds that he is suffering from cancer. But would Putinism disappear if the Russian leader were suddenly absent from the stage? Russian political scientist Ekaterina Schulmann, who works as a fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin, believes that even without Putin, "there would quite probably be an autocratic, resource-based government in Russia", since this was a likely outcome of a weak disinstutitionalised democracy of the 90s'. The war against Ukraine, however, may be Putin’s private obsession and only tolerated by the Russian elite out of opportunism. While the Ukrainian craze will probably end with the current generation of Security council elders, according to Schulmann, kleptocracy and personalisation of power may be harder to get rid of".