appropriation- and self- appropriation, what what to do with that, what the russian historian oleksandr yanovtive of odessa, called the russian pendulum. he said that in russia, of course, there were attempts to normalize russia, you know, make some reforms it is a normal european state, and this attempt was very much a problem. these attempts did not last very long, and after that came an even more terrible and severe reaction to the authoritarian regimes. you know, as one of the ukrainian philosophers said, and now little is known, that the history of russia is like this, you know, endless madness with short light intervals, that's the thing about putin, about yeltsin, eggs on a funny face, everyone knows it, you know, he can say anything in any circumstances only to be liked here, but if you abstract from his personality, it is very important because we must understand that maybe the soviet union was called russia, ukraine only followed him because russia left the soviet union and this was the result whether or not i accompanied the struggle between the yeltsins and gorbachev, the egg woul