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Kagarlitsky: Russian Riot Helps Enlighten the Leadership
Commentary, May, 09 2002
Boris Kagarlitsky
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Last week workers set out to defend their rights in two places: Italy, and the city of Voronezh in central European Russia. In their significance for Russia, the disorders in Voronezh were comparable to the impact the general strike had on Italy.
Kagarlitsky: A Different World, But Which One?
Commentary, April, 23 2002
Boris Kagarlitsky
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The World Social Forum in Porto Alegre arose as an alternative to the World Economic Forum in Davos. If Davos had become a symbol of the free market and of corporate globalisation, Porto Alegre was designed to become both a show of resistance to D...
Kagarlitsky: Argentinians are Taking to the Streets, While Russians are Flocking to their Television Sets
Commentary, January, 28 2002
Boris Kagarlitsky
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MOSCOW - There is a saying that the way you see in the New Year is the way you're going to spend it. Whether this is true or not, the events occurring in Argentina ought to serve as a serious warning for ruling groups and financial elites through...
Kagarlitsky: Euro-Ambitions
Commentary, January, 07 2002
Boris Kagarlitsky
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In Russia no one trusts banks or the rouble, and as a result, people usually conceal envelopes stuffed with hundred-dollar bills on shelves between books or in wardrobes between sheets.
Kagarlitsky: The Riddle Of Putin
Commentary, December, 23 2001
Boris Kagarlitsky
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MOSCOW - There is evidently some kind of natural law at work: if the business press and the leaders of the financial world name some country or other as a success story, then this is precisely the country where you can expect things to go badly wr...
Kagarlitsky: Facing WTO Life Sentence
Commentary, October, 28 2001
Boris Kagarlitsky
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The attacks in New York and Washington have provided the impetus for a new round of rapprochement between the United States and Russia. After several years of cool relations and confrontational rhetoric, the Russian government is demonstrating a w...
Kagarlitsky: The Russian Left Today
Commentary, July, 07 2001
Boris Kagarlitsky
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To judge from opinion surveys, newspaper reports and simply from conversations on the street, Russian society is moving leftward. To judge from the statements of politicians and the relationship of forces within the elite, however, the country is ...
Kagarlitsky: Globalization and Russia
Commentary, March, 12 2001
Boris Kagarlitsky
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As often happens with such terms, the word ÒglobalisationÓ has become popular in our country (Russia) only belatedly. To be exact, it has become popular among us at the very moment when people around the world have ceased talking about the rise of...
