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What Remains When Money Is Worth Nothing? A Reflection on Dignity and Real Value

17 May 2026 1 minute read 0 comments floc1960

I close my eyes and I can picture the scenes we keep hearing about across the Spanish-speaking world—from quiet provinces to crowded capitals. Hands full of paper. Banknotes that once promised a future, and now barely reach for the basics. And I’m no...

An economy on the rocks: how Russia lost 30 years and what to do

17 May 2026 4 minute read 4 comments Ship Shard

Zen blog post in Russianhttps://dzen.ru/a/af21RSIefiV4hqKS "Even an enemy wouldn't do that!" An economy in ruins: why we have become a country of couriers and how to break this circle. This publication is based on an analysis of data from 2026, repor...

Digital Exodus: How Russia is Losing its IT Future

17 May 2026 11 minute read 1 comment Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/afzsWFF-On7b0KGV "The Last Byte: Chronicles of the Digital Exodus." A one-way ticket for IT. May 2026 was the month when Moscow finally turned into the ruins of a digital empire. Not the ruins o...

Russians are preparing for the worst, because they no longer expect the best.

16 May 2026 5 minute read 1 comment Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/ad_f_IUyT2yYFG66 The future is not determined solely by poll numbers. It is created by our actions here and now. According to surveys from the CSP "Platforma" + "OnIn", "Map of Faith and Hope",...

Two voices in the void: Nigmatulin and Bonya on the crisis in Russia

16 May 2026 4 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/aeC_eAJQnG44gA36 Two voices, one alarm. We have reached a situation where the Kremlin publicly reacts to Victoria Boni's appeal, but does not comment on Dmitry Muratov's speeches or Robert Nigma...

One-way ticket: why the Russian IT business stopped "tolerating" and began evacuation

12 May 2026 9 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Zen blog post in Russianhttps://dzen.ru/a/afzT2cORJlFGmx-G "Finished off in a month." Why are even those who held out until the last, taking IT teams away from Russia with their families? May 2026. I just talked to a team leader I know from the Mosco...

They break illusions

12 May 2026 3 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/aeE8-ztE4GM3--33 4 films that break illusions. Documentaries, after which you can not dismiss. AFTER THAT, ROMANCE DIES. The list is as dark as possible — without heroes, without hope, without i...

Movies about propaganda and manipulation

11 May 2026 9 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/aftAyIA08Tr-8n1K The anatomy of political madness through the eyes of an idealist, satirist, and repentant technocrat. All three films are about one thing: a man against a soulless government. P...

Movies about politics and media manipulation

11 May 2026 8 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/afo0iRadCT2fdqBr FILMS WHERE EMOTIONS, NOT FACTS, CONTROL THE MASSES. Films where politics is like manipulation. 1. Cheating (Wag the Dog) (1997). How "realities" are created for society. Mecha...

Control, fear, deformation of people

9 May 2026 5 minute read 0 comments Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/aeIcHQSgOhZAJQi6 Dark films about control and hopelessness. Films that reveal the mechanism of control and fear that deform people. Power is almost always a choice between bad or very bad. If yo...