But how could she help — by teaching students, by advising the government? She already taught at the public administration department of the Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Her students gratefully absorbed her lessons about reason, kindness, and integrity, graduated, joined the civil service — and then proceeded to do exactly the things she told them not to do. Sowing the reasonable, the kind, and the eternal simply doesn’t work in Russia.
Take, for example, the widely admired Ekaterina Schulmann. She has repeatedly said that when, for whatever reason, Russia’s war and dictatorship finally end, she stands rea
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