Today's regime in Russia is in an intermediate state between mobilization and stagnation states; The regime, trying to maintain stability, simultaneously at the same time undermines it.

This opinion was expressed in an interview with the "Observer" by the Russian and American historian, art and culture theorist, philosopher, film critic, philologist, professor of New York University Mikhail Yampolsky.

"This is a regime that exists in constant attempts to maintain stability and at the same time endlessly this stability is undermining," "all the time something does not give them life," he said..

Yampolsky described two main types of authoritarian regimes - stagnation and mobilization. The latter "mobilizes the population all the time, all the time arranges any military adventures and stuff". He added that sometimes the regime of one type goes to the second type, as it was with the Stalin regime in the Soviet Union: from mobilization it turned into a "Brezhnev stagnation regime" that lasted long enough.

According to the expert, "the Russian regime is in an intermediate state". "On the one hand, this is a more or less rotting regime, which tries to avoid excesses. On the other hand, they always arrange some sort of destabilization within themselves, they keep climbing where they do not need to climb at all, and all the time they worsen the sanctions against themselves, reinforce the isolation, "he stated..

"There is something self-destructive in this behavior. And everything that happens after the conflict with Ukraine, is partly self-destructive, "- recognized Yampolsky.

The expert did not begin to voice a forecast on the longevity of the regime in Russia. At the same time, he remarked: "We always see that a regime that seems stable is in fact extremely unstable. There's always something going on. I do not have a feeling that this is some kind of solid rock ".

"The Communist regime, the Soviet Union seemed an absolutely firm stronghold.

No one could foresee that all this would crumble for several months. And then all this crumbled, "he recalled..

Full version of the interview with Mikhail Yampolsky read here.

As the "Observer" wrote, earlier the Russian publicist Alexander Nevzorov stated: the existing structure of power in Russia will inevitably collapse "due to its wild outdatedness, uselessness, authoritarianism and lack of demand in the world".

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