In his book of correspondence with the noted French writer Michel Houellebecq, Public Enemies, the French journalist, activist and philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy wrote on present Russia: “Not only does this Russia inspire no desire in me, it fills me with horror. I’d go so far as to say that it frightens me because I see in it a possible destiny for the late-capitalist societies. Once upon a time, during your postwar ‘glory days,’ the middle class was terrorized by being told that Brezhnev’s communism was not an archaism restricted to distant societies but rather a picture of our own future. We were wrong: it was not communism but postcommunism, Putinism, that may be the testing ground for our future.” (Tęsti...)

Ką reikia daryti šiandien, kad greitai išgarsėtum? Akivaizdu – būti auka. Arba viešinti savo privatų gyvenimą. Arba taip bijoti, kad savo baime užkrėstum kitus. Arba nekęsti – taip stipriai, kad visi patikėtų, jog tavo neapykantos objektas sugriovė visų laimę ir gyvenimą. (Tęsti...)

The title of this writing is a paraphrase of the title of a famous novel. As we know, The Winter of Our Discontent is the title of John Steinbeck’s last novel, published in 1961. The title is a reference to the first two lines of William Shakespeare’s Richard III: “Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun of York.”(Tęsti...)