


Putinism itself is built on an ideology of all ideologies at once: liberalism, nationalism, conservatism Orthodox tradition an "anti-hegemonic" foreign policy.

Russia "had seen so many worlds flick through in such blistering progression- from communism to perestroika to shock therapy to penury to oligarchy to mafia state to mega-rich - its new heroes left with a sense that life is just one glittering masquerade, where every role and any position or belief is mutable". But what Pomerantsev describes is a period of constant flux. "Stability" was one of the watchwords of the 2000s in Russia, supposed to convey a sense of calm after the upheavals of the 1990s.
