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On Sept. 26, the European Commission announced that Bulgaria and Romania would join the European Union even earlier than previously planned. The…
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.
Two weeks ago the lower chamber of the Russian Parliament State Duma was preoccupied with two very important issues: it adopted the…
The recent ethnic violence in the Karelian town of Kondopoga started with an everyday fight and clashes between criminal gangs, but has…
Few people in the Soviet era understood the need for trade unions. Sure, the unions collected membership fees and distributed free trips…
Russian political authorities, as we are told, are heartily devoted to ideals of pluralism. Any official in the Kremlin will in all…
We travelled to the counter-summit. The first stage was a conference on the results of fifteen years of neoliberal reforms. After this…
Ukraine’s political leaders still haven’t managed to form a coalition government, although they’ve explored a variety of combinations. President Viktor Yushchenko’s Our…
Until very recently, I naively thought that Russia’s ban on Moldovan and Georgian wines was caused by political conflicts with those countries.…
The oil prices have once again gone up, exceeding the $70 per barrel margin. In the earlier years analysts would have talked…
The electoral campaign in Ukraine has come to its homestretch. To predict the results of the election in a foreign country is…