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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.
According to blogs and the liberal press, the “blue bucket brigades” are one of the most important activist phenomena in Russia’s still…
On June 1, U.S. Congress rejected a bill to increase the debt limit by $2.4 trillion, delivering a humiliating defeat to President…
A new wave of privatization is getting under way in Russia. Property that until now had been in the hands of the…
In Mikhail Bulgakov’s “The Master and Margarita,” the devil appears as a character named Woland who, when confronted with a man who…
Finnish elections don’t usually make headlines in Europe. But this spring Finnish voters managed to spoil the mood among Brussels bureaucrats and…
Finnish elections don’t usually make headlines in Europe. But this spring Finnish voters managed to spoil the mood among Brussels bureaucrats and…
Billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, a senior official and de facto ideologue of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, or RSPP, is full…
Several weeks ago, Russia celebrated the 150th anniversary of Tsar Alexander II's abolishment of serfdom, and historians are quick to mention that his reforms failed to create a full-fledged…
The 80th birthday of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev this month sparked a sudden but understandable surge of nostalgia for perestroika among…