Vladislav Surkov published an article in which he tried to predict the future of the Russian Federation in the changed historical realities after 2014. He believes that at that time the epic journey of Russians to the West ended, after which the inhabitants of the country have to live for 100-300 years in conditions of geopolitical loneliness. However, this does not mean that Russia will be completely isolated from the outside world. Over the past 400 years, Russian rulers have tried various ways of "Westernization," but each attempt ended in failure.

"For four centuries Russia went to the East and four centuries to the West. Neither there nor there is not rooted. Both roads are passed. Now the ideologies of the third way, the third type of civilization, the third world, the third Rome will be in demand, "Surkov writes in the magazine" Russia in Global Politics "in the article" The Loneliness of the Half-Blood (14+) ". According to him, what happened in 2014 was inevitable. "With the external similarity of Russian and European cultural models, they have different software and unequal connectors. Formed in the general system, they are not given, "- said the presidential aide. Our state, in his opinion, is a kind of "half-breed", which united the East and West at the same time, and which will always be its own among strangers and strangers among its. "Russia is a west-eastern half-blooded country. With its two-headed statehood, hybrid mentality, intercontinental territory, bipolar history, it is, as it should be half-baked, charismatic, talented, beautiful and lonely, ". He remembered the famous saying of the Russian Emperor Alexander III that Russia has only two ally - the army and the navy, and offers this "lucid metaphor of geopolitical loneliness", finally, to accept both fate. However, he immediately expanded the list of allies: "workers and teachers, oil and gas, the creative estate and patriotically minded bots, General Moroz and the archistrategos Michael. The meaning of this will not change: we are our own allies ". Surkov notes that the quality of the forthcoming loneliness can be chosen at our discretion - either "the vegetation of the bean in the outskirts" or "the lonely loneliness of the leader". In any scenario - this does not mean complete isolation, as well as unlimited openness. Russia will "communicate" with other civilizations, trade with them, attract investments, compete and cooperate, fight with them, because war is also a "way of communication," warns the assistant to the head of state. Finished his essay Surkov quote from the composition Oxxxymiron, the hero who is interested in when, finally, the thorns end and the stars begin.

"It will be interesting. And the stars will be, "- promises Surkov. It is noteworthy that his article came out after the US Ministry of Finance unveiled a new anti-Russian sanctions list on April 6, which included domestic top managers, businessmen, officials and a number of companies. Earlier today it was reported that US sanctions negatively hit the Russian stock market, along with the indices of the exchanges, the ruble's exchange rate against the world currencies.