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Monthly Archives: May 2009
Kremlin Dreams Sometimes Come True
This April, Michael Bohm, editor at the Moscow Times, published the article New Kremlin Dreamers, which questioned Russia’s stated intention of becoming an advanced industrial nation by 2020. I wasn’t much impressed by its pessimistic assertions – for instance, regarding … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged climate change, core article, corruption, culture, economy, education, energy, geopolitics, history, resource depletion, vision, western media
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Translation: The Case of the “Stalinist” Textbook
NOTE: This article TRANSLATION: A. Filippov on ‘Debates about Stalin’s Role’ in A New History of Russia 1945-2006 is available in pdf format. Ever since the publication of Filippov’s (in)famous textbook A History of Russia 1945-2006 in 2007, the state … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Translations
Tagged baltics, communism, culture, education, history, human rights, liberasty, philosophy, politics, russians, russophobes, ukraine, western hypocrisy, western media
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Putvedev is Russia’s White Rider
In this Core Article I look at Russia’s future development through the prism of historical cycles, Kremlin ideology, development theory, value shifts, elite corruption and Camus. In April 2007 Peter Zeihan of Stratfor wrote a thought-provoking article The Coming Era … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged core article, history, human rights, liberasty, medvedev, philosophy, politics, putin, russians, russophobes, ukraine
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Russia’s Demographic Resilience
In this post I look at the (surprisingly good) Russian demographic data for Jan-Mar 2009 and argue in more depth that the economic crisis is unlikely to have a very major negative impact on short-term fertility, or any but a … Continue reading
Best Designed Russia Blogs
Here is a 100% subjective list of the best (and worst) designed blogs in the Russia-watching blogosphere. My main criteria for a well-designed blog include: ergonomics (fast load, little clutter, efficient search and archives); utility (easy navigation, explanatory information, contact, … Continue reading
Victory Day Special: The Poisonous Myths of the Eastern Front
За нас за вас и за десант и за спецназ! The Red Army was the single greatest contributor to the defeat of Nazi Germany sixty-four years ago, a truly evil empire based on slavery and oppression, and responsible for the … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged belarus, history, human rights, military, nato, russians, russophobes, usa
44 Comments