Paul Goble
Staunton, Nov. 5 – When Aleksandr Kharichev, head of the Presidential Administration’s sector which monitors social processes and who serves as the Kremlin’s senior in-house sociologists published an article which among other things suggested that Russia now faces the challenge of a potential civil war, that was quickly picked up to the exclusion of all else he said.
But in an article for the second issue of the new Russian Academy of Economics and State Service journal The Government, Kharichev pointed to five other challenges he says Moscow is currently facing and must address to prevent disastrous outcomes (ehorussia.com/new/node/33600).
In addition to the possibility of a civil war, the Kremlin sociologist says, Russia faces he potential “loss of political, territorial and cultural sovereignty, depopulation, loss of public trust in the government, and the collapse of the political system, as well as ‘dehumanization’ and the transformation of Russians into ‘consumer subjects.’”
His suggestion that Russia faces the possibility of a civil war guaranteed that his words would attract widespread attention, but these other challenges both singly and collectively are likely a more important part of his message to the Russian political elite generally and Vladimir Putin personally.
The second issue of the journal containing his article has been published but not yet posted on its website and comments on it have depended on the readings by those with access to that (t.me/agentstvonews/12580 and vedomosti.ru/society/articles/2025/11/05/1152177-chinovnik-kremlya-sformuliroval-spisok-vizovov).
When the second issue is posted, a more thorough commentary will be possible; but his article also has the effect of calling attention to this new publication; and a brief perusal of its first issue which has been posted suggest it is one that those who follow Russian politics will want to read regularly. For the first issue, see runivers.ru/gal/today.php?ID=643816.
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