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Michel Eltchaninoff: In the head of Vladimir Putin
Russia. Beginning of January 2014 High officials, regional governors, leaders of the United Russia party receive a special New Year's gift from the presidential administration: philosophical works! Our tasks by Ivan Ilyin, The Philosophy of Inequality by Nikolay Berdyaev, The Justification of Good by Vladimir Solovyov, works of Russian thinkers of the 19th and 20th centuries. If Gogol were alive, he would have described these officials, regular guests of fashionable restaurants and limousines, how night after night they spell out pages full of cryptic guesses and pull their hair from their heads in deep sleep. The president himself recently quoted the same authors in his most important speeches, so it was necessary to understand what he meant. The most persistent among them found strange-sounding formulas in those books and sensed a certain agreement between the epochs.
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