SKETCH OF THE FUTURE

Over the past twenty years, a rigid vertical power structure has been built in Russia. The lives of the regions are completely subordinated to the center, which sucks them dry. Is this really true?

How do we perceive ourselves – as residents of a larger country, a region, a city? Is national identity, for example, important to us?

The Russian constitution prohibits ideology, but this hasn't prevented propaganda and the substitution of values. What can be done to eliminate this vast and well-oiled propaganda machine in the future? And most importantly, how can society be protected from its resurgence? And is it only a matter of the media?

Personal data collection and leaks, electronic surveillance, and data breaches have become an everyday reality, according to The Insider data journalist Dada Lindell and Mikhail Klimarev, executive director of the Internet Defense Society.

Do we need lustration after the current Russian regime collapses? Lustration is considered one of the important tools to ensure that the new society, the country building democracy, does not return to its authoritarian past. Lustration has many supporters. And many opponents.

How realistic is it to bring war criminals to justice? Who will determine their guilt and punishment, and how? How can we ensure that punishment does not degenerate into arbitrariness, revenge, and terror? Where will the trial take place, and where will the convicted serve their sentences? Can criminals be tried in absentia? If someone does not survive to trial, can they be sentenced posthumously?