Character: Boris Strugatsky

For a true nationalist, the most important things are details, formalities, signs, the shape of your great-grandfather's ear, an archival record ... He loves to talk about selfless love for his people, but this is some kind of strange and scary love, smoothly and insensitively turning into hatred for a foreign people. And if "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel", then nationalism is his first and favorite refuge.

The famous writer Boris Strugatsky said in an interview with "Novaya Gazeta":
- In the eyes of large numbers of people Putin is the last hope that we all finally "settled". Salaries will be issued on time and they are great. That pensions will not be below the subsistence level. That thieves will go to jail. That the street in the evening you can go without fear. That Russia will revive as a great power... It is the last hope of millions of people who first had faith in the Communists, then the Democrats and in all of these Zhirinovsky, Zyuganov - all. Remained the last hope - good king. Good, strong, powerful and sensible. And all this hope focused on Putin...