This article was originally published on Mikhail Zygar’s Substack, The Last Pioneer. On Dec. 16, the Russian Supreme Court issued what was perhaps the most widely discussed ruling in its history. More than 170,000 people watched the court hearing live. And the session ended in a surprising way: Larisa Dolina — the most talked-about figure in Russia over the past month, a well-known pop singer and the most hated person in the country — lost the case. Yet the court case concerned nothing more than the property rights to her apartment. In the public discourse, this everyday domestic issue turned out to be far more important than the ongoing war against Ukraine, the negotiations between Kremlin representatives and Donald Trump’s team, the new sanctions, the corruption scandal in Ukraine or any other international news.
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