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Commentary Kagarlitsky: Like a crime story

Commentary, October, 02 2007 Boris Kagarlitsky
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Producers of the "Successor" reality show that incessantly surprises both the Russian audience and the critics seem to have borrowed the idea and the plot from classic detective stories. In the beginning, they made audience closely follow the riva...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Is Another Depression Looming?

Commentary, September, 16 2007 Boris Kagarlitsky
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Western leftist economists are known for having predicted eight crises out of five that erupted. Well, critically thinking people like to predict different crashes, collapses and depressions. The existing system turns out to be irrational so often...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Bronze soldier takes a shot

Commentary, May, 28 2007 Boris Kagarlitsky
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I learned about the riots in Tallinn during a philosophy conference in the south Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. Participants were deep into Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" when a young man showed an SMS message on events in Estonia. During the c...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Bronze soldier takes a shot

Commentary, May, 23 2007 Boris Kagarlitsky
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I learned about the riots in Tallinn during a philosophy conference in the south Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. Participants were deep into Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" when a young man showed an SMS message on events in Estonia. During the c...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: March 2007 vs. March 1917. Historical parallels

Commentary, March, 23 2007 Boris Kagarlitsky
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On March 3, Russia's liberal and leftist groups held the Dissenters' March in St. Petersburg. The rally seems to be the first successful social event of the liberal opposition so far. It gathered over 3000 people; but more importantly it revealed ...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: A Policy Paved With Good Intentions

Commentary, February, 25 2007 Boris Kagarlitsky
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Racial Violence and Unity

Commentary, October, 10 2006 Boris Kagarlitsky
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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
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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. ...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: A St Petersburg Tale

Commentary, August, 17 2006 Boris Kagarlitsky
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Forgetting Glastnost

Commentary, November, 01 2005 Boris Kagarlitsky
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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...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: The German Stalemate

Commentary, September, 30 2005 Boris Kagarlitsky
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Relationships between Social Democrats and their electorate in Germany remind me of the families where husbands have a habit of occasional going on the spree. Every time, coming home from carousal, they apologize and pledge that it will never happ...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Tempest Over America

Commentary, September, 15 2005 Boris Kagarlitsky
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The Tambov students have twice won in the lottery. The first time happened when they got a chance to leave their godforsaken provincial town for New Orleans to have a training session there. The second one occurred when they managed to survive ...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Cook The Leftists

Commentary, August, 16 2005 Boris Kagarlitsky
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I can't help admitting that when Mikhail Khodorkovsky was a model liberal oligarch, I fancied him more. What can one expect from an upright liberal? First of all, he should be tolerant towards others' views. He may (even has to) feel strongly abou...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Africa First

Commentary, July, 28 2005 Boris Kagarlitsky
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The terrorist attacks in London have given the Russian press more food for thought and discussion. Had it not been for the explosions, death of people, search for the malefactors, the journalists wouldn't have had the slightest clue of what to wri...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: The EU's Crisis at the Top

Commentary, June, 30 2005 Boris Kagarlitsky
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Last month, the French and Dutch voted against the European Union Constitution. Last week, EU leaders could not agree on the EU budget when they met in Brussels. The project of European integration is in crisis.

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Schizophrenic Celebrations

Commentary, May, 21 2005 Boris Kagarlitsky
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The Russian authorities have a serious problem with official holidays. What are national holidays good for, anyway? They are not just about giving people an extra day off. No, they have an important political function. They are designed to reinfor...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Social Forum in Russia

Commentary, May, 10 2005 Boris Kagarlitsky
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On the weekend of April 16 and 17, the first Russian Social Forum was held in Moscow. On the campus of the Moscow University of the Humanities, members of left, trade union, environmental, human rights and disabled organisations gathered to discus...

Commentary Kagarlitsky: Riding a Tiger

Commentary, April, 19 2005 Boris Kagarlitsky
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To hear the Kremlin tell it, all of the recent revolutions in former Soviet republics were instigated by Washington and directed exclusively against Russia. Experts authorized to speak on behalf of the leadership explain that events of this nature...

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