The full interview with Ekaterina Shulman in six parts
#shulman #guriev #tooclose

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Okay, timecodes:
00:00 Intro
01:42 Can Shulman ride a bike?
02:30 Birds that met Ekaterina
04:13 The whole truth about bullfinches
05:03 Why men dress poorly
06:30 Shulman in Berlin
07:07 "Before us, there should have been no life"
08:08 Nabokov's Berlin
11:00 Where else was Shulman going?
11:58 "You previously told me, to within a few hundred meters, where I was I live," and what Brodsky, Dickens, and Schiller have to do with it.
13:14 "We are all post-colonial people."
14:24 Who cooks the food?
15:06 Who suggested leaving?
17:24 What does Shulman constantly draw?
19:14 "Why do you think I have Asperger's?"
23:27 Why does Shulman talk so fast and sit so upright?
25:40 Why is she SO beloved?
27:13 Does Shulman feel like she's in her era, or was it better back then?
28:00 Why does Shulman study political science, not Nabokov?
30:40 Why political scientists can't predict anything?
32:28 Doctoral dissertation topic
34:35 Who disappointed you after February 24th?
35:15 "I hope they're not filming us," and whether men have access to the abyss.
36:10 It's better to be a woman.
42:31 Kurnikov or Naki.
43:37 What is the role of the co-host?
44:35 A sudden distraction with a squirrel, Onegin, Jane Austen, and Nabokov.
45:56 Return to the previous question.
46:42 Why the Russian opposition failed.
51:36 "People weren't sweeping their own yard"
52:50 "They'll go into law enforcement" and another bright future
54:22 Could things have gone differently
1:00:35 What happened to charity
1:01:12 Why are solitary pickets necessary
1:02:50 What happened to Lolita
1:04:50 What does Nabokov have in common with Jane Austen and Tolkien
1:10:42 The Stoics, the Hobbit, and Hitler
1:15:12 What the Internet will change
1:20:10 The surveillance and monitoring system
1:21:09 What is it like to live in Russia (and why)
1:22:02 Why don't you get divorced?
1:22:37 The Trolley Problem as a false moral choice
1:25:10 Robbers!
1:25:22 Is Shulman a political actor?
1:27:27 Is Steven Pinker's Long Peace Over?
1:35:20 Should We Have Dugouts?
1:40:08 What If You Never Return to Russia?
1:40:31 "Sitting on an Unpacked Suitcase"

In our conversation, we mentioned organizations that help people on the spectrum. Here are the links:
Anton is Here — https://antontut.ru/
"Vykhod" Foundation — https://autism.help/
Autism Problems Center — https://autismchallenge.ru/

The conversation also mentioned Shulman's conversation with @ryba_lotsman (Екатерина Шульман* о литературе, Толкине, ...) and @zygaro's conversation with Pinker. (“Никто не знает, каким будет ответ на прим...).

Acknowledgments:
Thanks to Alexander Murashev from @normpeople (here's his interview with Shulmann: Video), Evgraf Borezov from @EdimTV for their support and advice. And of course, thanks to @Ekaterina_Schulmann too.

Video: Nikita Pavlov https://nikitapavlov.com
Equipment: https://kit.co/nikitapavlov/interview...