Evgenia Kovda
@EvgeniaKovda
Nefarious Russian, ex-Muscovite
got word that our nefarious russian foot soldiers are out there spreading the anti-suburb gospel. when you speak the truth like @EvgeniaKovda, the truth takes on its own life... nefariousrussians.com/p/the-suburbs
After spending almost a month back home in moscow it’s clear to me that Pelevin is one of the few writers who captures the surreal paradoxical quality of this place unlike Sorokin. Because Pelevin is not a lib.
Weird how counter cultural marginal sentiment has been pushed into the mainstream in russia and thus stripped of its authenticity. Basically what Limonov said and did 35 years ago in his “bunker” is now the dominant culture..wonder what he’d do if he was young now.
Watched the other day a great play by a young russian playwright that satirizes europeans with their ikea catalogues and sitcom like simplistic ideas about love and relationship. Colonial mindset is receding here!
Karaganov’s new “code of a russian citizen” is hilarious! He came up with a new ideology that should be taught in schools and one of its points is that Russia should build “people’s capitalism” — where private property is sacred but conspicuous consumption is outlawed.…
What’s the main ideas behind the American experiment? Democracy? Why are people proud to be American? I notice that people are starting to be proud Russians here in an abstract sort of way as dwellers of the historical Russian empire. And it’s obv a very undemocratic sentiment —…
In moscow what makes one feel that there is actually a war is that gps basically doesn’t work in many parts of the city to protect it from drone attacks.