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Convertible Democracy

15:00 07.04.2011

Convertible Democracy

IT'S ALWAYS RISKY to tell a story from hearsay. One inevitably errs in the details. Still, let me give it a try. During a Soviet celebration of Alexander Suvorov's jubilee year, a speaker mounted the podium and made a denunciatory speech about the great general. In it, he depicted Suvorov …

Japan Will Overcome. Yet at What Cost...

14:00 17.03.2011

Japan Will Overcome. Yet at What Cost...

THERE IS SOMETHING DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND about the recent events in Japan at first sight. The only country to have suffered from a nuclear attack and experienced the tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki decided to develop the nuclear power industry, risking repeating the nightmares of the past. Indeed, building a …

No More Cheap Oil

14:00 03.02.2011

No More Cheap Oil

ACCORDING TO Suleiman Jasir Al-Herbish, Director-General of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), there will be no more cheap oil. We met at the OFID headquarters in Vienna, a magnificent palace built in the days of the Austrian Empire and richly decorated with columns, stucco, massive oak doors and …

Russia-Ukraine: There Are no Easy Ways yet...

14:00 06.01.2011

Russia-Ukraine: There Are no Easy Ways yet...

OH WELL, this feels great. You come to the Crimea and hear at the passport checkpoint in the Simferopol airport: "With your passport you do not need an immigration card." A TV picture of Medvedev and Yanukovich criticizing the borderline idiocy comes to mind followed by a puzzled question: "Why …

WikiLeaks: Neither Tolerated Nor Silenced

14:00 12.12.2010

WikiLeaks: Neither Tolerated Nor Silenced

The sober remark that the atomic bomb cannot be “unborn” is attributed to M. Thatcher. At the moment, the same holds true of WikiLeaks, the internet outlet which came into being a relatively short time ago and promptly established itself as media warfare of unprecedented power. Apart from provoking fierce …

This day of unity...

16:06 04.11.2010

This day of unity...

Troublesome times - what strange words, if you think about it. Vaguely in the heart, in the mind, and in the consciousness, we pass on the blame, and blame faceless time. National Unity Day on November 4th falls at the same time as the holy day for the icon of …

Do not beg from those who are stronger than you

17:01 18.10.2010

Do not beg from those who are stronger than you

Like a huge abscess, Iran infects the political world around itself. The political phase of the preparation for a military operation began with Washington's attempts to pacify the Palestinians with Israel. If the Arab elite in Tehran show irritation and even hostility, the same cannot be said about the Arab …

17:05 30.09.2010

I'm not talking about Luzhkov, I'm on about the stars in the Kremlin and the Kremlin itself. 80 years ago, on October 1st, 1930, the Chudov monastery inside the Kremlin was blown up, the beauty and grandeur of which were not inferior to other monasteries, and which bore the name …

What is the elite missing?

16:58 23.09.2010

What is the elite missing?

Anatoly Chubais believes that the elite lack intelligence, but as a classic political joke of the 1990s said of Chubais: - "He is the smart one." Speaking at an economic forum in Perm, the head of RUSNANO lamented the fact that Russia has no overall innovation strategy, the modernization of …

On You Go, Tight Assed Democracy

17:03 09.09.2010

On You Go, Tight Assed Democracy

"In Yekaterinburg, controversy erupted around the decision of an international judge, which rehabilitated foul language, recognizing three popular words, "not as insults, but interjections." The headline of a small newspaper article, which quite possibly did not belong to the author, also sounds like a sentence: "No censorship! The theme justifies …

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