Alexei Pankin has trumped all other historians and analysts, and uncovered the root cause of all Russia’s recent political crises - battles over holiday homes:
My humble contribution to Russian and world political thought is what I call the "dacha theory" of history. The gist of the theory is that fighting over dachas among the ruling elite has been a major driving force behind the social development of the country in recent times.
The Prosecutor General’s Office announced last week that it had opened an investigation into Mikhail Kasyanov’s acquisition of a government-owned dacha shortly before he was fired as prime minister in early 2004. The "Kasyanov affair" provides additional empirical evidence to back up my theory, and makes possible a number of predictions.
[…] With the Kasyanov affair, dachas have once more emerged at the center of a political battle. Mark my words: Major upheavals are on the way.
Compelling.
