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Commentary Kagarlitsky: Opposition Needs to Reach Beyond Moscow

Commentary, May, 18 2012 Boris Kagarlitsky
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The Moscow protests on May 6 marked a milestone in the country's political development.

Commentary Kagarlitsky: France's Electoral Guillotine

Commentary, May, 03 2012 Boris Kagarlitsky
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French society is changing. The old political parties are rapidly losing credibility, and the public is putting ever greater pressure on the government

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Protest Genie Is Out of the Bottle

Commentary, April, 19 2012 Boris Kagarlitsky
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This discontent will inevitably be directed against the government itself as soon as it implements its programs

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Labor Protests Pose New Kremlin Headache

Commentary, April, 06 2012 Boris Kagarlitsky
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No sooner had protests in Moscow and St. Petersburg quieted down than strikes broke out in the provinces

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Revolutionary Winds Blowing Across Moldova

Commentary, March, 22 2012 Boris Kagarlitsky
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While Russians ponder the results of this winter's political crisis, a revolution is shaping up in Moldova

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Artists Sold Out to Putin

Commentary, March, 12 2012 Boris Kagarlitsky
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By supporting Putin, they not only oppose society, but also the moral foundation of their own profession

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Putin's Puppet Show

Commentary, February, 29 2012 Boris Kagarlitsky
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Russia now has an extraordinary political system in which all of the elements are present, but nothing works

Commentary Kagarlitsky: A Propaganda Breakdown

Commentary, February, 09 2012 Boris Kagarlitsky
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The only reason the lower class is not rebelling yet is that ordinary Russians are overburdened with the daily struggle for survival

Commentary Kagarlitsky: The Left's Broken Clock

Commentary, January, 27 2012 Boris Kagarlitsky
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Someone once likened the political positions of the extreme left with a broken clock that never shows the right time

Commentary Kagarlitsky: The Protesters' Lull Before the Storm

Commentary, January, 11 2012 Boris Kagarlitsky
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The holiday brought a lull in the opposition's passions and drained the protest movement of the momentum it had only begun to build

Commentary 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

Commentary 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

Commentary 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

Commentary 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

Commentary 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

Commentary 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

Commentary 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

Commentary 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

Commentary 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

Commentary 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

Commentary 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

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Privatization Follies

Commentary, June, 04 2011 Boris Kagarlitsky
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A new wave of privatization is getting under way in Russia

Commentary 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

Commentary 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...

Commentary 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.”

Commentary 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.

Commentary 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.

Commentary Kagarlitsky: The Return of Fascism

Commentary, December, 25 2010 Boris Kagarlitsky
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There was nothing unexpected about the racially motivated rioting and attacks that took place in Moscow and other cities during the past 10 days.

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Fursenko Is Education's No. 1 Enemy

Commentary, November, 29 2010 Boris Kagarlitsky
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The Russian educational system has many problems but only one real enemy. It would take hours to list all of the problems but only a moment to name the No. 1 enemy: Education and Science Minister Andrei Fursenko.

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Prokhorov’s Shock Modernization

Commentary, November, 13 2010 Boris Kagarlitsky
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The State Duma invented National Unity Day on Nov. 4 to replace the Nov. 7 holiday commemorating the Bolshevik Revolution.

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