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Commentary Kagarlitsky: The AvtoVAZ fairy tale

Commentary, October, 28 2009 Boris Kagarlitsky
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For those who believe that privatisation automatically increases efficiency, just take a look at today’s AvtoVAZ, once considered a flagship of Soviet industry.

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Personnel Shortage

Commentary, September, 07 2009 Boris Kagarlitsky
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While the world leaders are slightly optimistic about the economic recovery in the Western countries, Eastern Europe prepares for the next wave of the crisis.

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Confessions of Cassandra

Commentary, July, 24 2009 Boris Kagarlitsky
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A hero of one American movie often exclaimed how he was tired of turning out right constantly. I can’t even retell the plot of that movie, but I remember the key-note: the hero predicted some kind of troubles, but he fated never to be believed, ...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Peculiarities of national mentality

Commentary, July, 08 2009 Boris Kagarlitsky
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Over the past twenty years the liberal social and political essays have written that under capitalism the economy must have nothing to do with the activities of the state that can damage the economic development by interfering in the economy. One ...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: A Bottom-Up Democracy

Commentary, June, 28 2009 Boris Kagarlitsky
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It had to happen sooner or later. The first bill on nationalization has been submitted to the State Duma. That such a bill would appear in Russia only after similar legislation was introduced in Britain and the United States might seem paradoxical...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: The illusion of stabilization

Commentary, May, 31 2009 Boris Kagarlitsky
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There has been a distinct deficit of good news lately. News influences financial markets, and that is why leaders try to organize, distribute and manipulate the news in such a way as to convert today's headlines into tomorrow's quick profits.

Commentary Kagarlitsky: The Leviathan has gone berserk

Commentary, May, 19 2009 Boris Kagarlitsky
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The case of police Major Denis Yevsyukov shooting at people in a supermarket draws attention to the level of state violence in Russia.

Commentary Kagarlitsky: What are the bureaucrats afraid of?

Commentary, May, 03 2009 Boris Kagarlitsky
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When looking round the Russian city of Izhevsk a participant in the last week Ural Social Forum said: "Now I came to realize why the Kalashnikov assault rifle had been invented here".

Commentary Kagarlitsky: The Unknown War

Commentary, April, 18 2009 Boris Kagarlitsky
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While economists debate whether the economic crisis has bottomed out yet and celebrities throw gaudy evening bashes and ordinary citizens count their shrinking incomes, there is a quiet but grim war taking place on the streets. Bands of fascists a...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: A Credibility Crisis

Commentary, March, 24 2009 Boris Kagarlitsky
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The Russian government has developed a new anti-crisis plan. Although nobody has seen it yet, we can be 100 percent certain that it is a good one and that it will enable Russia to fulfill its strategy for development through 2020, offer solutions ...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Devaluation Race

Commentary, February, 18 2009 Boris Kagarlitsky
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I must confess the term used by me in the title of the article is not mine. It is young economist Vasily Koltashov who invented it. But we work together at the same Institute and have similar ideas.

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Victims of the Crisis

Commentary, November, 20 2008 Boris Kagarlitsky
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Today the list of victims of the economic crisis in Russia is not long but is extremely revealing. It starts with “Moskovsky Korrespondent” weekly that appeared at the end of September and was closed in October.

Commentary Kagarlitsky: There will be no war

Commentary, November, 11 2008 Boris Kagarlitsky
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It looks like there will be no war between Russia and Ukraine. It is clear that this fact will upset many in Moscow and Kyiv, but, unfortunately, there is a need to face realities. The efforts made by militarism heralds, admirers of Ukrainian hetm...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Blind Faith of Free-Market Cheerleaders

Commentary, October, 22 2008 Boris Kagarlitsky
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The only good news about the current economic crisis is that the global economy will collapse long before humanity has time to destroy the planet's ecology, writes Boris Kagarlitsky.

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Prepare for a bumpy ride

Commentary, October, 10 2008 Boris Kagarlitsky
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When some analysts began discussing an upcoming drop in real estate prices last spring, most economists reacted with open contempt. "How can you speak of a drop when prices are climbing daily?" they asked. In the past six weeks, however, circumsta...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: US & Russia: Limits of a Superpower

Commentary, August, 30 2008 Boris Kagarlitsky
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Internationally the war is a big blow for the US, at least in Central Europe and the Caucasus. It has suddenly shown that the influence and control of the sole superpower is limited. There are situations when the superpower cannot protect its clie...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Russia's Upside in the Georgia Conflict

Commentary, August, 27 2008 Boris Kagarlitsky
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Fortunately, the Russia-Georgia war was short-lived, but its repercussions will be felt for longer. By defeating Georgia and showing that Washington was unable to defend its own ally, Russia humiliated the United States in front of the whole world.

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Capitalism in One State

Commentary, August, 13 2008 Boris Kagarlitsky
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When Vladimir Putin was president, he liked to give short, somewhat ironic answers to difficult questions. In 2000, for example, when U.S. television talk show host Larry King asked him what happened to the Kursk, Putin answered, "It sank."

Commentary Kagarlitsky: National project with a Stradivarius

Commentary, June, 26 2008 Boris Kagarlitsky
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Who would think that a banal song contest like Eurovision can trigger new round of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. When Kyiv won the right to host the finals of the 50th Eurovision contest, Moscow was sick with envy and spent millions to ...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Labor code as an instrument of social revolution

Commentary, May, 28 2008 Boris Kagarlitsky
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The Russian labour code, written to suit the interests of employers, has pushed workers to unite and oppose its draconian terms.

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Two-headed eagle infected with bugs

Commentary, May, 25 2008 Boris Kagarlitsky
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It was rather charming how the inauguration of the new president and the appointment of the old president as the new prime minister fit nicely between Labor Day on May 1 and Victory Day on May 9. Russians commemorated the events by celebrating non...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Communism's New Crisis

Commentary, May, 18 2008 Boris Kagarlitsky
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A decade ago, the triumph of liberalism in Europe was so overwhelming that even parties that traced their political lineage to the early 20th-century revolutionary working class movement did not to speak openly about the radical transformation of ...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Time to Apply Fresh Coat of Paint to Russia

Commentary, March, 31 2008 Boris Kagarlitsky
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Once a strong state was in place to secure the oligarchs' freshly acquired assets, the keys are ceremoniously handed over to the liberal faction surrounding Medvedev.

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Mad as a March Election

Commentary, March, 24 2008 Boris Kagarlitsky
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The Russian presidential election was the most democratic for many years, but the farce in which everyone knew the result for months reveals the shallow nature of liberal democracy.

Commentary Kagarlitsky: The Day of Protest

Commentary, March, 04 2008 Boris Kagarlitsky
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The worldwide day of protests called for by the WSF's International Committee channeled some significant popular discontent in Russia but were largely ignored by the media or exploited by the Communist Party for electoral reasons.

Commentary Kagarlitsky: The Labor Movement and Civil Society in Russia

Commentary, February, 26 2008 Boris Kagarlitsky
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Workers of the 'Ford' plant in Vsevolozhsk wrestled a compromise, but with the invigorated labour movement, the struggle for the amendment of the Russian Labor code is likely to become the most important political issue, writes Boris Kagarlitsky.

Commentary Kagarlitsky: The President's Fate

Commentary, January, 12 2008 Boris Kagarlitsky
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With Dmitry Medvedev - Putin's favoured candidate - as President, Russia could be in for a new bout of liberalisation. But Putin will not take a back seat as Prime Minister and political conflict looks a likely outcome. After emerging from New Yea...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: A draw for Ford but a victory for all

Commentary, December, 29 2007 Boris Kagarlitsky
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The strike at the Ford factory in Vsevolozhsk, located right outside St. Petersburg, ended on Dec. 14. It was the longest and most intense standoff in post-Soviet times. The strike began on Nov. 20 and continued for three weeks. According to union...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: No Need to Pad the Vote

Commentary, November, 27 2007 Boris Kagarlitsky
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No Need to Pad the Vote

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Odd questions

Commentary, November, 15 2007 Boris Kagarlitsky
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Odd questions

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