Zcom_simple

Back Search Results - New Search

Commentary Kagarlitsky: A Policy Paved With Good Intentions

Commentary, February, 25 2007 Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page

At least one good thing has come out of the absurdly warm weather so far this winter. Even though the high temperatures cannot [Definitely] be attributed to global warming, politicians and many in the business community are paying more attention t...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: MOSCOW AFTER THE FAT COWS HAVE ALREADY BEEN EATEN

Commentary, January, 21 2007 Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page

While the Russians enjoyed themselves during the New Year and Christmas holidays, the world economy was developing in its own quite unexpected way. The oil prices dropped and the Moscow housing market stabilized.

Commentary Kagarlitsky: A murder for export

Commentary, December, 13 2006 Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page

After the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya I predicted that there would be a following up to this story. Unfortunately, I was right. Alexander Litvinenko's suspected poisoning has become a headliner this week, but rather in Britain than in ...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Russia and WTO: This Is Going to Hurt

Commentary, December, 04 2006 Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page

The last time Russia was knocking on the door of the World Trade Organization was at the very beginning of the decade. Most people then had only a hazy idea about what the WTO was, so there was no public alarm. Major corporations, however, were st...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: The Ukrainian frontier guard syndrome

Commentary, November, 14 2006 Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page

There is one good joke I want to tell you. Two Ukrainian frontier guards are keeping awake at the observation post.

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Europe's New Second-Tier

Commentary, October, 26 2006 Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page

On Sept. 26, the European Commission announced that Bulgaria and Romania would join the European Union even earlier than previously planned. The two former Soviet satellites will join the EU on Jan. 1, 2007, instead of 2008.

Znet Article Kagarlitsky: The phantom of the orange revolution and bureaucratic ignorance

Znet Article, October, 23 2006 Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page

Two weeks ago the lower chamber of the Russian Parliament State Duma was preoccupied with two very important issues: it adopted the law on autonomous institutions and deliberated on the “orange revolution” threat. The Russian MPs w...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Racial Violence and Unity

Commentary, October, 10 2006 Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page

The recent ethnic violence in the Karelian town of Kondopoga started with an everyday fight and clashes between criminal gangs, but has ended with serious politicking and propagandizing.

Commentary Kagarlitsky: The Rebirth of the Unions

Commentary, September, 22 2006 Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page

Few people in the Soviet era understood the need for trade unions. Sure, the unions collected membership fees and distributed free trips to sanatoriums among the workers, but apart from that no one could clearly explain what function they played. ...

Znet Article Kagarlitsky: Pluralism a la Cremlin

Znet Article, September, 09 2006 Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page

Russian political authorities, as we are told, are heartily devoted to ideals of pluralism. Any official in the Kremlin will in all honesty explain to you how important it is. Manufacturing contested elections, engineering public debate and so to ...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: A St Petersburg Tale

Commentary, August, 17 2006 Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page

We travelled to the counter-summit. The first stage was a conference on the results of fifteen years of neoliberal reforms. After this came the Russian Social Forum, to which the authorities prudently allocated the Kirov Stadium - remote from the ...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Ambition Trumping Vision

Commentary, July, 06 2006 Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page

Ukraine's political leaders still haven't managed to form a coalition government, although they've explored a variety of combinations. President Viktor Yushchenko's Our Ukraine party, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's bloc and the Socialist...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Bottling a Troubled History

Commentary, July, 02 2006 Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page

Until very recently, I naively thought that Russia's ban on Moldovan and Georgian wines was caused by political conflicts with those countries. How wrong I was! Now it is abundantly clear that Russian authorities just don't like wine.

Commentary Kagarlitsky: It's Not About Oil

Commentary, May, 09 2006 Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page

The oil prices have once again gone up, exceeding the $70 per barrel margin. In the earlier years analysts would have talked about "another psychologically important barrier". Now this is no longer the case, as price increase is of no surprise for...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: The Moment of Truth in Ukarainian History

Commentary, April, 02 2006 Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page

The electoral campaign in Ukraine has come to its homestretch. To predict the results of the election in a foreign country is a mug's game, especially if this foreign country is the Ukraine with its unstable political situation, its struggles betw...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: 1968 Vice Versa

Commentary, March, 20 2006 Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page

France has once again become the center of attention. First of all, the European Constitution was snowed under by the French people, then immigrant youngsters were rioting in the suburbs, now the students of Sorbonne, who are way more well-off, ha...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Slavs Put Up Their Dukes

Commentary, February, 12 2006 Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page

The dispute was short but bitter. As it celebrated the new year, Russian society did not notice that on the morning of Jan. 1 it had been drawn into the biggest foreign affairs conflict since the end of the Cold War. The Kremlin knew in advance th...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: A Return of the Proletariat

Commentary, November, 20 2005 Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page

On November 7th at a demonstration commemorating an anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, there was a group of radical kids from AKM - Vanguard of Red Youth, Russian equivalent of Western black Bloc. They were surrounded by the police an strict...

Znet Article Kagarlitsky: Riots in France

Znet Article, November, 11 2005 Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page

  For two weeks now, France has been rocked by street violence and arson. And for two weeks, Russian commentators have held forth about the "Muslim factor" and "ethnic conflicts." It's easier to spout cliches than to figure out what's really hap...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Forgetting Glastnost

Commentary, November, 01 2005 Boris Kagarlitsky
Kagarlitsky's ZSpace page

Alexander Yakovlev perestoikaÕs key ideologue was laid to rest last week with much pomp and circumstance. Yegor Yakovlev a former editor of ÒMoskovskiye NovostiÓ (ÒMoscow NewsÓ), a ÒcultÓ weekly of the same period, had passed away a few weeks befo...

Loading_border