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Kagarlitsky: Politics Without Choice
Commentary, December, 20 2011
Boris Kagarlitsky
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The purpose of presidential elections is only to try to legitimize decisions that rulers have already made
Kagarlitsky: The Struggle Emerges in Russia
Commentary, December, 15 2011
Boris Kagarlitsky
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Interview on the roots of recent protests in Russia and prospects for the future
Kagarlitsky: Managed Democracy Fails in a Crisis
Commentary, December, 08 2011
Boris Kagarlitsky
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The inability of the authorities to cope with the rising wave of social problems has naturally spilled into the political sphere
Kagarlitsky: Reflections on the Arab Revolutions
Znet Article, November, 30 2011
Boris Kagarlitsky
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There is nothing terrible about being in a minority, but there is nothing more appalling than to remain a mere spectator of history
Kagarlitsky: Why Stock Markets Cause Economic Crises
Commentary, November, 13 2011
Boris Kagarlitsky
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When the gap between the games on the stock exchange and the real economy became too great, it resulted in collapse
Kagarlitsky: Economic Policies After the Death of Neoliberalism
Znet Article, November, 12 2011
Boris Kagarlitsky
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The international economic system that took shape after the collapse of the Soviet Union is not dead yet, but it is dying
Kagarlitsky: Occupy the Belly of the Beast
Commentary, October, 27 2011
Boris Kagarlitsky
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The response to this crisis of democracy is not to reject it, but to reinvent it at the grassroots level through protest and resistance
Kagarlitsky: Useless Money
Commentary, September, 30 2011
Boris Kagarlitsky
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Political elite the world over are determined to avoid radical change and desperate to follow their habitual course
Kagarlitsky: How Russia Resembles Libya
Commentary, September, 15 2011
Boris Kagarlitsky
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In place of an analysis of Libyan society, Russian officials have become bogged down in an argument over a clash of values
Kagarlitsky: The Soviet Collapse vs. an EU Collapse
Commentary, August, 27 2011
Boris Kagarlitsky
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As with the Soviet collapse, the more politicians try to save the EU, the less viable it becomes
Kagarlitsky: The World's Largest Pyramid Scheme
Commentary, August, 12 2011
Boris Kagarlitsky
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The U.S. system of social benefits is complicated, expensive, ineffective and, most important, selective
Kagarlitsky: Blue Bucket Protests Will Fail
Commentary, June, 21 2011
Boris Kagarlitsky
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If there is any group that becomes mobilized, however, it is the privileged bureaucrats
Kagarlitsky: An August 1998 Default on a Global Scale
Commentary, June, 11 2011
Boris Kagarlitsky
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There is a fierce battle for power among the ruling elite, but there is no battle of ideas
Kagarlitsky: Privatization Follies
Commentary, June, 04 2011
Boris Kagarlitsky
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A new wave of privatization is getting under way in Russia
Kagarlitsky: Russian Capitalism Is More Pure
Commentary, May, 14 2011
Boris Kagarlitsky
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The West is taken as the standard, and everything in Russia differing from it is considered “abnormal
Kagarlitsky: Europe's Nationalists Waiting in the Dark
Commentary, April, 30 2011
Boris Kagarlitsky
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Finnish elections don’t usually make headlines in Europe. But this spring Finnish voters managed to spoil the mood among Brussels bureaucrats and the liberal public by giving the nationalist True Finns party the third highest number of seats in pa...
Kagarlitsky: Europe's Nationalists Waiting in the Dark
Znet Article, April, 29 2011
Boris Kagarlitsky
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Whenever free market policy fails, the only salvation offered is even higher doses of the same policy
Kagarlitsky: Prokhorov's Exploitative Emancipation
Commentary, April, 27 2011
Boris Kagarlitsky
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In the spirit of Newspeak, Prokhorov claims that his proposals will “emancipate the worker.”
Kagarlitsky: Russia Inspired Arab Protesters
Commentary, April, 03 2011
Boris Kagarlitsky
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Several weeks ago, Russia celebrated the 150th anniversary of Tsar Alexander II's abolishment of serfdom, and historians are quick to mention that his reforms failed to create a full-fledged civil society.
Kagarlitsky: Gorbachev the Traitor
Commentary, March, 25 2011
Boris Kagarlitsky
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The 80th birthday of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev this month sparked a sudden but understandable surge of nostalgia for perestroika among the liberal intelligentsia.
