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Did the presidential election in Russia reveal anything about the country? Well in some way… Valentina Matviyenko, governor of Saint Petersburg,…
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.
I was skeptic about the last year’s decision of the International Committee of the World Social Forum (WSF) to hold a worldwide…
The confrontation between employees and administration of the "Ford" plant in Vsevolozhsk ended in compromise. The salary was raised by 16-20% depending…
With Dmitry Medvedev – Putin’s favoured candidate – as President, Russia could be in for a new bout of liberalisation. But…
The strike at the Ford factory in Vsevolozhsk, located right outside St. Petersburg, ended on Dec. 14. It was the longest…
President Vladimir Putin’s decision to head United Russia’s federal ticket means that the results of the upcoming elections are now a foregone…
A left-winger, I am supposed to venerate the day of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution. But no, I have never felt like celebrating…
Leaving Moscow two weeks ago was a kind of relief. Fed up with endless talks about Putin’s successor, I was glad to…
I received the news that President Vladimir Putin would be heading United Russia’s federal ticket while on a visit to Harvard…
Producers of the "Successor" reality show that incessantly surprises both the Russian audience and the critics seem to have borrowed the idea…