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The anatomy of the new fascist regime in Russia

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 06:26:33 GMT

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1060586X.2022.2062657
Maria Snegovaya & Kirill Petrov (2022) Long Soviet shadows: the nomenklatura ties of Putin elites, Post-Soviet Affairs, 38:4, 329-348, DOI: 10.1080/1060586X.2022.2062657

We find that the percentage of elite descendants from the Soviet nomenklatura, which during the Soviet times comprised only 1–3% of the population, remained quite stable between 2010 and 2020, constituting approximately 60% of Russia’s top ruling class. These findings, 30 years after the transition, signal a pronounced continuity between elites in the Soviet and Putin regimes.

Ironically, where elite change does occur in Putin’s system, it primarily happens through the influx of elite members with siloviki backgrounds. The nomenklatura and siloviki samples only partially intersect, and those with strictly nomenklatura ties significantly exceed the share of siloviki. In other words, Putin-era elites may be conceptualized as a mix of individuals with nomenklatura ties and siloviki backgrounds.

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Tue, 30 Nov 2021 06:57:17 GMT

In the Three Little Pigs tale, the brick house is a ~~non-exclusionary~~ non-rival good, which can be modeled as a distributive category.

BH x (Pig1 + Pig2 + Pig3) -> BHxPig1 + BHxPig2 + BHxPig3.

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Fri, 02 Apr 2021 03:26:52 GMT

5.1 = Arjun: O Krishna, Action is the process of doing something and Renunciation is rejection of something especially from action. Out of this two which one is better?

5.2 = Krishna: Both are really good.

-- Kishan Barai. “Bhagavad Gita Made Very Easy: Read & Understand Complete Bhagavad Gita in Short Time.”

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Wed, 06 Nov 2019 07:23:45 GMT

I'm having trouble imagining how an arrow can be a matrix.
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Need to work through a relevant example.

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