After the victory of the far right in the parliamentary elections in Saxony-Anhalt, special representative of the President of the Russian Federation Kirill Dmitriev wrote on his X: "I look forward to jointly building a great future together with ‘AfD’ — Germany’s most popular party".

On the weekend, Russian news agencies enthusiastically reported the emergence of a new oil province in Russia. Rosneft head Igor Sechin even compared the commissioning of the Vostok Oil project in Taimyr with the discovery of West Siberian oil in Soviet times. Let’s find out whether this is true.

How did it happen that in a country where anti-fascist rhetoric permeates everything, a semi-fascist party wins the 2026 elections? Why does this rhetoric no longer work?

Exactly 35 years ago, the central authorities allowed Sverdlovsk enthusiasts to print their own francs. Today, the Ural Republic is associated with this exotic currency, whose project seriously influenced all Russian politics of the 1990s.