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Pussy Riot in Post-Culture Context

15:00 19.09.2012 Armen Oganesyan

Pussy Riot in Post-Culture Context

The ado about Pussy Riot seems to be subsiding now that the story has led to a court verdict. Speaking in Finland, Russian diplomacy chief S. Lavrov warned the media against hysteria over the case and urged respect for the legitimate judicial decision, while in Russia the Orthodox Church called …

Secrets Behind September 11

15:00 11.09.2012 Nikolai Malishevski

Secrets Behind September 11

Surveys conducted across the US show thatthe majority of Americans, including senior citizens old enough to remember the US entry into World War II, regard the September, 11, 2001 drama as exceeding in historical importance the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. Speaking of the latter, these days it is an open …

India and APEC: Center of Mutual Gravitation

15:00 05.09.2012 Andrei Volodin

India and APEC: Center of Mutual Gravitation

The 24th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) annual summit is to take place on September 2-8 in Vladivostok. Today APEC is the largest economic forum for 21 Asia-Pacific nations accounting for 57% of world GNP and 48% of world trade. As is known India has requested membership in the organization. Russia …

Mars can speak

1:00 22.08.2012 Elena Studneva

Mars can speak

New generation rover with affectionate name "Curiosity» (Curiosity) NASA researchers launched in November 2011 and safely reached the Red Planet Aug. 6, 2012. It separated from migratory module. For the first time the technology has been tested Sky Crane unit descended from a flying platform on the surface of Mars …

Revolution - is not theater

15:17 12.08.2012 Armen Oganesyan

Revolution - is not theater

"Revolution is a theater where people start to play new roles,” so wrote E. Radzinsky in his book "Stalin". I think people who survived the revolution, would never have said that. The word "survivor" I use in a literal and figurative sense – those who historically survived the revolution, went …

EU Mistakes and Lessons for Future Eurasian Union

15:00 10.08.2012 Yuri Gavrilechko

EU Mistakes and Lessons for Future Eurasian Union

The globalization actually encompasses all aspects of private and social life. It also has a dramatic and miserable side of the coin: the differentiation of society, the breakup of traditional interpersonal ties (the decline of family values is a bright example), the growing isolation of individual in the “global” world… …

Traian Basescu a Mirror of European Nationalism

15:00 31.07.2012 Pyotr Iskenderov

Traian Basescu a Mirror of European Nationalism

The collapse of the Romanian opposition's initiative to unseat president of the country Traian Basescu briefly drew heightened attention to the embattled political leader and, upon scrutiny, highlighted the ongoing erosion of the European unity. The critics of Basescu still credit themselves with the failed referendum as a major political …

What professional standards do we need?

15:07 27.07.2012 Armen Oganesyan

What professional standards do we need?

The Ministry of labor and Social Development of the Russian Federation (MLSD) have created 800 new professional standards for industrial workers. Ideally, these are the requirements that the Russian labor market today demands from its participants. The old standards are to be sure, out of date, some of them by …

The Revolution, that didn’t happen

12:06 12.07.2012 Armen Oganesyan

The Revolution, that didn’t happen

The anniversary of the "Bolotnaya Square events" will not pass unnoticed. That is, it would have passed down the road to oblivion, if not accounting for the private memories of the white ribbons and other accessories unusual for Muscovites. Yes, even worse, the events of December 2011, which declared themselves …

Russia Opens the Year of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

16:53 04.07.2012 Alexander Moiseyev

Russia Opens the Year of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Acclaimed Columbian novelist and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez turns 85 The Year of Márquez was inaugurated in Moscow at a ceremony held at the Cervantes Institute in connection with the birthday of the author to whom the readership has long granted the classic status. The agenda for the …

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