Press Release, 2.06.2026

Photo: Alexander Sogomonov / Photo by the Yabloko Party University

On 9 June, The Yabloko Party University invites all those interested to a lecture by Alexander Sogomonov, Candidate of Historical Sciences and sociologist: “The world in the second quarter of the 21st century: how new ‘generations’ and demographic shifts will affect the values, education, and culture of the near future?”.

The concept of “generation” is widely used today both in its traditional demographic sense and metaphorically in analyses of the evolution of digital technologies and artificial intelligence. These different “generations,” whilst overlapping sociologically, nonetheless represent transformations that differ in content and social trajectory in the contemporary world.

Fundamental changes in the generational structure of both human populations and digital applications are finding expression in social innovation and the cultural dynamics of our globalised world. Taken together, all that is socially “new” is, in essence, challenging the pragmatic and metaphorical meanings upon which the world has rested for the past two centuries or so. And what is at issue is no longer so much a deep crisis of our Modernity project as its large-scale dialectical negation and transcendence. A genuine shift of landmarks will, in all likelihood, occur within the coming decade.

Whether a reliable forecast on this subject is possible at all will be explored at the forthcoming event together with Alexander Sogomonov, leading research fellow at the Institute of Sociology of the Federal Centre of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The lecture will take place at the Yabloko party office (Pyatnitskaya 31/2, Moscow) on 9 June. It begins at 19:00.

Admission by prior registration.