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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: 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: 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: 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.
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.
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.
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.
Kagarlitsky: A Census The Golden Horde Would Love
Commentary, October, 28 2010
Boris Kagarlitsky
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Today, when a census taker comes calling at your door, you are having a firsthand encounter with the legacy of the Tatar yoke...
Kagarlitsky: A Burning Wake-Up Call
Commentary, September, 13 2010
Boris Kagarlitsky
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Russian authorities and much of the Russian public have pretended up to now that there were no costs to privatization of forests and that there was no climate crisis. We have to hope this year's fires and heatwave causes a change in policy.
Kagarlitsky: Creating a Nation of Poor, Sick and Ignorant
Commentary, June, 18 2010
Boris Kagarlitsky
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A new bill has been passed in Russia that will extensively roll back Government funding of education, the arts and social services - by introducing per capita financing - that will punish smaller towns and downgrade quality in the larger ones.
Kagarlitsky: Lenin’s Loss Is Stalin’s Gain
Commentary, May, 02 2010
Boris Kagarlitsky
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Several years ago, I taught political science at a technical college. Why future engineers were required to study political science is anybody’s guess, but perhaps it replaced the mandatory Soviet-era course on the history of the Communist Party.
Kagarlitsky: The Class War on Leninsky Prospekt
Commentary, April, 09 2010
Boris Kagarlitsky
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Protests sparked by last month's fatal car accident in Moscow reveal the depth and scale of the anti-corporate mood in today's Russia.
Kagarlitsky: Russia's Failure in the Olympic Games
Commentary, March, 28 2010
Boris Kagarlitsky
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The authorities are looking for scapegoats for failure of the Russian team at the Olympics, but what is going on in sports is only an example of what is going on in other spheres of life - neoliberalism yields the same results no matter where it i...
Kagarlitsky: The New Opiate of the Masses
Commentary, March, 13 2010
Boris Kagarlitsky
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If the new law recently passed by the State Duma goes into force, it will deliver a big blow to the Russian culture, education and public health.
Kagarlitsky: "Freedom" – what a pleasant word!
Commentary, February, 08 2010
Boris Kagarlitsky
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If freedom is defined by a state’s non-participation in economic processes, as the Heritage Foundation suggests, then Haiti today would win first prize, as after the earthquake, it has no government at all.
Kagarlitsky: Default in Europe
Commentary, December, 29 2009
Boris Kagarlitsky
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When the Arab emirate Dubai was on the verge of bankruptcy, the international financial speculators became worried. The rating agencies simultaneously came to correct their assessments. The bankers started to check if their debtors were solvent. A...
Kagarlitsky: A Flu for All Seasons
Commentary, November, 23 2009
Boris Kagarlitsky
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Swine flu is quite handy to politicians, who can use it to postpone elections, or justify a state of emergency, if needed.
