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The Work Within the Real
I’ve got a few submissions for the “novel” project I described here last month. I’m not quite sure what to do with them because I don’t yet know what…
Nikita Petrov
Jan 20
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Russia's Agents in the Dreamscape
Some years ago, I had a vivid two-punch dream, in which I felt I was being recruited into a Russian intelligence agency. I was lucid—that is, aware I…
Nikita Petrov
Jan 9
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December 2022
Let's Chat
You now can start your own threads on Psychopolitica's Substack Chat
Nikita Petrov
Dec 22, 2022
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Sketches for a Substack novel
This post is a further development of the idea I first described in Russia’s Psychotic Break. It started as a round-about way to process Russia’s war…
Nikita Petrov
Dec 13, 2022
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November 2022
A Pinch of DMT on a Tuesday
By way of an update: my idea for “a serialized epistolary novel of sorts“ that I described here last week has grown in my mind considerably, to the…
Nikita Petrov
Nov 28, 2022
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Russia's Psychotic Break
I have given up on writing a Russia/Ukraine op-ed for the NYT—I’m too close to the topic, my feelings on it too raw and my thoughts too hopeless and…
Nikita Petrov
Nov 21, 2022
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October 2022
The Whenever! Show
Jason Novak's latest project
Nikita Petrov
Oct 15, 2022
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Checking in with Jason Novak
Watch now (63 min) | Now that I’m settled, more or less, in Yerevan, I want to come back to my habit of having video calls with PsyPol’s paying…
Nikita Petrov
Oct 5, 2022
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Out of Russia
A day before Putin announced mobilization—a first for Russia since WW2—I was in a taxi. We made a turn from a sun-lit street into a darker one, and the…
Nikita Petrov
Oct 1, 2022
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September 2022
A Priest on a Train
I’m writing this on a train going from Moscow to St. Petersburg. For the first couple of hours, until we reached Vyshniy Volochok, a Christian Orthodox…
Nikita Petrov
Sep 18, 2022
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How Russian Convicts are Recruited to Fight in Ukraine
Plus, the new Russian military cathedral
Nikita Petrov
Sep 14, 2022
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A Taxi Ride
From today
Nikita Petrov
Sep 6, 2022
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