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To isolate Russia is not in the west’s power or interest

2022-04-24T21:29:39.685Z

Treating the entire country as a geopolitical Chernobyl would be a strategic Ivan Krastev APRIL 23 2022

Ivan Krastev APRIL 23 2022

picture by © Ann Kiernan

The writer is chair of the Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, and permanent fellow at IWM.

As the world reeled from the shock of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, one question was left unanswered. On whose behalf was the war declared? Are the majority of Russians hostage to Vladimir Putin’s imperial ambitions, or is Russian society the equivalent of Putin writ large?

During the invasion’s first days, most Europeans leaned towards the hostage theory and expected ordinary Russians to voice their opposition. It took the revelation of the unfathomable atrocities in Bucha for public opinion to shift, reconceiving of Putin’s war as Russia’s war.

The Kremlin’s total media control and growing repression were seemingly no longer sufficient to explain, let alone justify, the silence of Russian society. Did Russians not know the truth about Bucha or did they do not want to know it? Many Europeans were outraged by the way the country’s citizens swallowed hard and shut their eyes to their army’s barbarism.

After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, an exclusion zone was created around the reactor that exploded. For Europeans and for the western political mind generally, Russia has become a geopolitical Chernobyl: a site of moral disaster, a place of danger to be sealed off. And so many Europeans today are dreaming about a world without Russia.

In their imagination the west no longer consumes Russia’s energy resources. Cultural contacts are severed and Europe’s borders are fortified. It would be as if Russia had disappeared. Even pathologically optimistic business leaders see little opportunity of reinvesting in Russian markets in the coming years. And while Putin remains in power, a significant easing of western sanctions appears a remote prospect.

Many western policymakers have already given up on the hope of change in Russia. Instead they focus on measures aimed at limiting the country’s ability to achieve its foreign policy objectives. But any attempt to seal off Russia would be very different from the west’s cold war policy of containment of the Soviet Union. As George Kennan conceived it, containment was predicated on an assumption that over time the Soviet regime was destined to collapse because of its internal contradictions. A Chernobyl-style isolation would assume that Russia can never change.

The cold war was rooted in a discourse in which the regime was to be blamed but the people declared innocent. The Soviet Union was depicted as a prison-house, and Soviet leaders were never recognised as legitimate representatives of their society.

In contrast to this idea of an evil regime and a repressed people in which change is still imaginable, a policy that seeks to create an “isolated Russian zone” unconsciously adopts a discourse in which Russia as a civilisation is immutable. There are myriad moral reasons why Russia should be ghettoised as a geopolitical Chernobyl. But treating Russia as a collective Putin will be a strategic blunder. Here is why.

First, this notion will primarily benefit the Russian leader. It unwittingly gives him the legitimacy to speak on behalf of the Russian people. Worse, it justifies his twisted narrative that the only Russia the west can tolerate is a weak or defeated one. If Russia is a geopolitical Chernobyl, the only reasonable strategy for any freedom-loving Russian is to bolt for the exits.

Second, an isolation strategy is probably self-defeating because it closes off interest in what is happening in Russia. It predicts that Russians’ failure to speak against the war means that the country will never change its attitude towards it. It will miss the fact that more than a few Russians support the war not because they support the regime but because they irrationally hope that the war will change the regime.

Opposition-minded people hope that a defeat for the Russian army in Ukraine will bring Putin down. Many of his supporters relish the destruction of the despised, Putin-enabled offshore elite. In the words of a famous rock singer, after the west seized the property of the oligarchs, Russians finally became “equal like in 1917”.

Third, to bet on a world without Russia is ultimately futile because the non-western world, which may not favour the Kremlin’s war, is hardly eager to isolate Russia. Many see the current barbarism as disgusting but not exceptional. They practice value-free realism. Many of the states that US president Joe Biden invited to his Summit for Democracy have not placed sanctions on Russia.

Russia’s military offensive in the Donbas only intensifies the clash between those who view the country as morally irreparable and those who see it as an unavoidable reality in global politics. The offensive will force European public opinion to choose between “the peace party” (those who insist that the west’s priority should be to stop hostilities as soon as who insist that the west’s priority should be to stop hostilities as soon as possible, even at the cost of major concessions from Ukraine) and “the justice party” (those who insist the priority should be to expel Russian troops from Ukrainian territory even at the cost of prolonged war).

Peace and justice do not rhyme in European history. Whether you call the invasion of Ukraine Putin’s war or Russians’ war is not a matter of taste but a strategic choice. It signals the west’s expectations about its relations with post-Putin Russia, whenever that arrives.

Ezdapps Acceleration Network

2019-11-21T15:32:57.272Z

Ezdapps (EasyDApps) - is an entire ecosystem for dApp startups, bundle of development framework, underlying public network and acceleration program, connected to existing blockchain acceleration infrastructure globally.

Ezdapps allows fast prototyping, low code development of unlimited dApps for any OS. The platform grew out of the Apla Blockchain project, which has been under development for three years. In other words, ezdapps is a practical application of what has been developed all this time.

Over the years, the Apla Blockchain has managed to collaborate with giants such as Huawei, Hewlett Packard, GazpromNeft, government agencies in Dubai, India and other lesser-known structures. Now is the time for mass adoption.

Apla is a tech company since 2017 that uses blockchain technology to help organizations work faster, safer and with greater impact. Apla blockchain is a secure, simple and compliant blockchain infrastructure that could be quickly deployed over the top of different cloud providers for a fast-growing global collaborative economy segment. Apla offers a growing number of sidechain-based dApps to automate various business activities with pure immutability on-chain support over existing public networks. Businesses will benefit from reducing operational costs and go-to-market time with fast automation of business processes. Apla HQ’s based in Luxembourg in LHOFT Fintech Accelerator and managed by EGAAS S.A. Apla is nominated as the best blockchain solution provider of 2018 in Dubai, UAE. Apla’s Xreg corporate governance DApp wins several grants from Docler Foundation and others. Apla partners with software and hardware vendors (HP, Huawei, Gazprom Neft), governments (UAE, India, Luxembourg) to create PoC’s and pilot projects on Apla Blockchain.

5 killer-features of ezdapps:

Application development uses regular web technologies (dialects of Python, JavaScript, etc.), there is no binding to Solidity-like proprietary programming languages;
Applications run in the common user-centric environment: mobile, web browser or desktop. No special requirements to install Metamask, Tronlink or any other special browser extensions/applications. Applications will be available in global marketplaces (AppStore, Google Play, Azure Marketplace, etc. depending on application concept) and will compete for users with centralized services.
There is no single point of failure, there is no single server. DApp network backend will be decentralized worldwide and deployed on top of the global cloud infrastructure across Microsoft Azure, Huawei Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Google Cloud, which is designed to provide uninterrupted operation, protection against attacks, scalable serverless computing and universal storage for decentralized application data. The roadmap for the development of ezdapps public network for 2019-2020 includes the use of graphs, semantic data storage models, optimization of transaction routing, clustering, implementation of segmented BFT consensus and a general increase of public network transaction bandwidth, taking into account the work of dApps in 5G networks.
A special acceleration program in Asia and Europe, an incentive algorithm for dApp startups and mentoring support from large business partners will help attract developers and investors to the new ecosystem;
The end-user does not need cryptocurrency to interact with dApps.

Token

EASY (ezdapps acceleration network utility token) currently released on the Ethereum to provide liquidity and compatibility with the crypto assets market and fully compatible with the native network token through a decentralized bridge. The EASY token is intended for staking, participation in consensus, voting, payment for network resources.

Private Sale

During the private round, EASY tokens can be bought at 44% cheaper than at the public listing. Private Round target is acquiring liquidity for executing a listing roadmap and product final development. Please contact admins in telegram channel for participation in private round. Investors who acquire Venture Builder equity will be bonused with network tokens. Please stay updated on listing roadmap. Early EGAAS investors (EGS token holders) and Genesis project supporters (GEN token holders) can swap its tokens to EASY.

Tokenomics

RPOSV (Random Proof of Stake Voting) consensus on 101 nodes + staking + rewarding tokens to dApps projects according to it’s metrics and rewarding algorithm. Click here for details.

Community

Token holders: 1000+ participants (Telegram + Huobi Chat App) at the start.

Developers: 4000+ participants in Keybase (planned migration to Discord/Telegram).

Github: Finished Product, 1600+ stars, 100 forks, 4,5K commits.

Venture builder roadmap

10 native applications + 10 teams up to Q2-3 of 2020. Hosted accelerator for 1st cohort: China, Guangzhou Blockchain Industry Association

MVP-ready dApps list - click here to download

dApps presentations: Apla Xreg - here, Moneto - here

Ezdapps pitch deck - Click here to read.

Еzdapps: акселератор для dApp стартапов

2019-11-21T14:43:08.033Z

Ezdapps - это целая экосистема для децентрализованных приложений в виде среды для разработки, публичной сети и акселерационной программы для dApp стартапов. Платформа выросла из проекта Apla, разработка которого ведется уже три года. Другими словами, ezdapps - практическое применение того, что разрабатывалось всё это время.

Проект Apla за эти годы успел посотрудничать с такими гигантами, как Huawei, Hewlett Packard, Газпромнефть, государственные органы Дубая, Индии и другие менее известные структуры. Настало время для mass adoption.

5 особенностей ezdapps:

Разработка приложений может проходить на регулярных веб-технологиях (диалекты Python, JavaScript и другие), нет привязки к Solidity или другим унитарным языкам;
Приложения могут работать в привычных для пользователя местах: мобильный, веб-браузер, десктоп. Не надо устанавливать Metamask, Tronlink и другие специальные расширения и приложения. Приложения будут доступны в глобальных маркетплейсах (App Store, Google Play, Azure Marketplace и др.) и будут конкурировать за пользователей с централизованными сервисами.
Нет точки отказа, нет единого сервера. Бэкэнд приложений распределен по всему миру. Ноды сети разворачиваются поверх глобальной облачной инфраструктуры на базе Microsoft Azure, Huawei Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Google Cloud, что призвано обеспечить бесперебойность работы, защиту от атак, масштабируемые бессерверные вычисления и универсальное хранилище для данных децентрализованных приложений.
Дорожная карта развития публичной сети ezdapps на 2019-2020 год включает применение графов, семантических моделей хранения данных, оптимизацию маршрутизации транзакций, кластеризацию, внедрение специализированного BFT консенсуса и общее увеличение пропускной способности сети, учитывающее работу dApps в 5G сетях. Специальная акселерационная программа в Азии и Европе, алгоритм поощрений для dApp стартапов и менторская поддержка крупных бизнес партнеров позволит привлечь в новую экосистему разработчиков и инвесторов;
Конечному пользователю не нужна криптовалюта для взаимодействия с приложением.

Токен

Утилити токен сети EASY выпущен на платформе Ethereum для обеспечения ликвидности и совместимости с рынком криптоактивов и полностью совместим с нативным токеном сети через децентрализованный бридж.

Токен EASY предназначен для стейкинга, участия в консенсусе и оплаты ресурсов сети ezdapps.

Приватный раунд

Сейчас токены платформы можно купить на 44% дешевле публичного раунда. Участникам раунда в течении 2 месяцев доступны бонусы токенами 20% ежемесячно при условии холдирования на кошельке в течении всего срока. После завершения раунда приватным инвесторам будет доступен buyback через OTC по рыночным ценам. Цель раунда - привлечение ликвидности под листинг на “большом” Binance.

По вопросам участия в приватном раунде можно обращаться в Telegram канал Apla или к менеджеру программы Michael Aprossine.

Токеномика

RPOS консенсус на 101 ноде + стейкинг + награждение токенами проектов dApps согласно метрикам и алгоритму. Подробнее - тут.

Коммьюнити

Токенхолдеры: 1000+ участников (Telegram + Huobi Chat App).

Девелоперы: 4000+ участников в Keybase (планируется миграция в Discord/Telegram).

Github: Готовый продукт, 1600+ stars, 100 forks, 4,5K commits.

Дорожная карта акселератора

10 собственных приложений + 10 команд до 2-3 квартала 2020 года. Площадка акселератора для первой когорты проектов: Китай, Guangdong Blockchain Association Accelerator.

Каталог MVP-ready dApps - тут
Питчи Apla Xreg - тут, Ezgram/Moneto - тут

Дорожная карта по листингу

1-й этап: DEX’s & Local Exchanges - Q4 2019 (начальная ликвидность, листинг на СМС);

2-й этап: Kucoin, Gate.io - Q4 2019 (суточная ликвидность 0,5М);

3-й этап: Binance DEX - Q1 2020 (обязательное условие листинга для этапа 4);

4-й этап: “большой” Binance - Q1-2 2020 (cуточная ликвидность ~2M USD на старте).

Скачать питчдек проекта Ezdapps - тут