Alexey Kushch

By Alexey Kushch Several conclusions regarding recent political developments: The issue of war and peace is becoming a political tool for segmenting the electorate and subsequently consolidating several core voter groups. This will become a dividing line similar to those that once existed over language, foreign-policy orientation, and so on. In other words, political strategists have found a new way to segment society into electoral groups.

By Alexey Kushch On “pro-Russian parties” in the EU. The very framing of the issue is somewhat illogical, yet this discourse frequently appears in our information space. In reality, Marine Le Pen, as the leader of the National Rally, and Alice Weidel, as the leader of the AfD, have never been pro-Russian politicians, just as Merz and Macron are not purely pro-Ukrainian politicians. They are all, first and foremost, pro-German or pro-French politicians.

By Alexey Kushch Russia is launching a continuous stream of drones at Kyiv. This tactic of destruction could be described as a kind of infernal “Moscow Air Express.” The logistics system of the Kyiv metropolitan region is being systematically disrupted. There are no ready-made algorithms for rapidly restoring it. One obvious solution is to decentralise logistics, but this would increase transport and logistics mark-ups in the price of goods by at least 20–30%.