Monthly Archives: December 2008

New Year Update: Russophile Predictions

Posted on December 31, 2008 by AK

Happy New Year to all Sublime Oblivion readers! Half a year ago I made a Russophile Predictions portfolio to 2013. The New Year is probably one of the more appropriate times to check up on their accuracy, as winthrop360 has … Continue reading →

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vodka.IMPORTANT, and other things that define Sublime Oblivion

Posted on December 31, 2008 by AK

Siberian Light found a nifty site called Wordle, which lets you generate “word clouds” from your site. Here’s the word cloud for Sublime Oblivion. I particular like the vodka.IMPORTANT juxtaposition. Truer words were never spoken – let’s drink to that!

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Communism is our Road to Redemption

Posted on December 31, 2008 by AK

Green Communism is humanity’s last and only chance to avert environmental catastrophe. Continue reading →

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X-Mas Special – Zen and the Art of Vodka Drinking

Posted on December 25, 2008 by AK

The method, art and philosophy of drinking lots and lots of vodka. Continue reading →

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Russia Economic Crisis III: On the Importance of Self-Sufficiency in Liquids

Posted on December 7, 2008 by AK

IMPORTANT: I have since corrected, slightly revised and released An Analysis of Russia’s Economic Crisis: On the Importance of Self-Sufficiency in Liquids in pdf format. In this essay, I analyze three major areas of concern about the current Russian economy … Continue reading →

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Russia Economy Crisis II: Anatomy of the Crisis

Posted on December 4, 2008 by AK

As promised in the last post, here is a follow-up about Part II of the 17th World Bank Russia report, the reading of which cannot be stressed as too important in the current climate. Like in the last post, I … Continue reading →

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Russia Economy Crisis I: How Red will Russia Get?

Posted on December 3, 2008 by AK

Recently the World Bank’s November issue of the biannual Russian Economic Report came out. At the time I was busy with other things, amongst others planning the move from Blogger to self-hosted WordPress; as such, I did not give it … Continue reading →

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Victimized Venezuela II: Beware of Schadenfreude

Posted on December 1, 2008 by AK

Much like Putin’s Russia, Venezuela has been unfairly victimized by Washington’s foreign policy elite and savaged by the Western MSM, which have caricatured Chávez as a run of the mill Latin American populist strongman. In a previous post on this … Continue reading →

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Russia’s Fertility Future

Posted on December 1, 2008 by AK

The excellent demographic journal Demoscope has an extensive discussion of fertility trends in Russia. Some of it backs my own views in Demography I – The Russian Cross Reversed? and consequently, the assumptions behind the future demographic projections in Demography … Continue reading →

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