Kamil Galeev: The media and the academia are obsessed with the unimportant.

Western discourse in Russia is mostly a projection of Western intellectuals. They project their fears, of course. But also their hopes and dreams

Being the King’s Philosopher, a brain behind the tyrant, has been a wet dream of intellectuals at least since the days of Plato.

The King is in no need of a “philosopher”. What the King needs is a jester.