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The surge in street protests this month was the natural result of widespread discontent that has been building up steam for several years without any outlet. It…
Boris Kagarlitsky
Boris Yulyevich Kagarlitsky (born 29 August 1958) is a Russian Marxist theoretician and sociologist who has been a political dissident in the Soviet Union. He is coordinator of the Transnational Institute Global Crisis project and Director of the Institute of Globalization and Social Movements (IGSO) in Moscow. Kagarlisky hosts a YouTube channel Rabkor, associated with his online newspaper of the same name and with IGSO.
Protests by tens of thousands of people in Moscow and other cities December 10 were by far the largest demonstrations in Russia…
The crisis is developing exactly as expected. The inability of the authorities to cope with the rising wave of social problems has naturally spilled into the political sphere. …
“Turning-points in the history of humanity,” a contributor to the left-wing Algerian newspaper Le Matin observed in the summer of 2001, “are never simple…
The attempt by young protestors to occupy Wall Street found support not only among the majority of Americans and astonished Russians, but…
The international economic system that took shape after the collapse of the Soviet Union is not dead yet, but it is dying.…
When asked where he worked, one of my economist friends from the United States answered, “In the belly of the beast.” He…
The history of paper money began with a scandal. When Scottish financier John Law proposed in the early 18th century that…
Russia’s leaders have searched for the proper approach to the revolution in Libya like a person who hopes to find a picture…
At the same time that Russia is marking the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the West is beginning…