Just recently, President Dmitry Medvedev spoke about Russia as a ‘young country’, citing that it is only 20 years old. The reactive squall of angry screams has shown the president what bad memory young nations tend to have.
Russia is witnessing a change in the direction of its ideological debates – partly because old goals have been exhausted, and partly because they have been reconsidered in the new context of Medvedev’s government.
Unfortunately, the starting point of this talk is Russia’s lack of professional discussion of its own democratic development. The moral disaster caused by the first-wave Democrats in the early 1990s made the word ‘democratic’ almost taboo, and our debates started to be conducted in technocratic or ideological lingo.
