Meanwhile: a little bit of me in a rather lengthy article in Financial Times on the change of New Year messaging for the Russian audiences. No rest for the wicked, not even on the New Year holidays, the traditional hibernation season. No paywall this time, so readable for free.
НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН, РАСПРОСТРАНЕН И (ИЛИ) НАПРАВЛЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ (НАИМЕНОВАНИЕ, ФАМИЛИЯ, ИМЯ ОТЧЕСТВО (ПРИ НАЛИЧИИ), СОДЕРЖАЩАЯСЯ В РЕЕСТР ИНОСТРАННЫХ АГЕНТОВ) ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА (НАИМЕНОВАНИЕ, ФАМИЛИЯ, ИМЯ, ОТЧЕСТВО (ПРИ НАЛИЧИИ), СОДЕРЖАЩАЯСЯ В РЕЕСТР ИНОСТРАННЫХ АГЕНТОВ)

https://www.ft.com/content/fb611530-d9b9-4338-addb-7ca6b914f959

"The president always presented himself as the “apostle of balance, the protector of the great equilibrium,” said Russian political scientist Ekaterina Schulmann, in a radio interview this week. “He always came out and told people that everything’s fine, sang them lullabies . . . communicating to them that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday.”
Putin’s New Year message on the other hand “sent a very evocative picture” that 2023 would be far from normal, Schulmann said".

https://users.livejournal.com/-niece/2260853.html