Dmitri Adoniev is the case when sluggish office survival suddenly turns out to be a set of seasoned lifehacks on how to exist between Europe, Perm and the eyebrows threatening the apocalypse. Here, anxiety is served up with a native mate's relish and an almost familial weariness, and cultural codes look like instructions for subtle self-destruction.
In his "Best 2025," office intrigue and female psychology compete, but common sense always wins - if, of course, it has managed to persist amidst the eternal criticism from his mom. Adulthood, emigration and attempts to find normality in this madness seem not a feat, but almost a reflex.
