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Mark Adomanis Surprised Russians Don’t Hate Jews
From what I generally knew of contemporary Eastern European attitudes towards Jews (in two words “not good”) I expected that the Russian public’s attitude towards Israel would be decidely frosty, if...
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Last Word On Jews In Russia
At least until the issue arises again. Over to Alex Mercouris: … I do not agree that the two big revolutionary parties in tsarist Russia, the Socialist Revolutionaries and the Social Democrats were...
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Russia Overtaking USSR, Converging With West, On Food, Housing Consumption
Just to hammer down the myth of Russian impoverishment one more time (with the help of graphs from Sergey Zhuravlev’s blog)… In the past few years, in terms of basic necessities (food, clothing,...
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Russia’s Bizarre Preoccupation With The Idea Of The “National Idea”
There’s tons of criticism that Russia no longer has a “national idea.” The sentiment comes from almost everyone: Nationalists, liberasts, Communists, foreign critics, Russian “experts” with far too...
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The Russian Cross Becomes A Hexagon
One of the standard memes about Russia’s demographic trajectory was the “Russian Cross.” While at the literal level it described the shape of the country’s birth rate and death rate trajectories, a...
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Russia Now Produces As Many Cars As The USSR Did At Its Peak
As I write the book, I create a lot of graphs. Here is one of them. So in manufacturing terms, as far as cars are concerned, the “deindustrialization” era is decidedly over. Of course it’s also...
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Georgians Are The Biggest Stalinists
It’s no real secret that many Russians have a positive impression of Stalin; it was 49% in February 2013, insignificantly down from 53% in 2003. (This is not a view that I share). There are probably a...
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The Russian Imperialist Genocide In Chechnya
Hard as it is to believe, but in the wake of the Boston Bombings, many Western commentators actively trying to find the roots of the Tsarnaev brothers’ rage in Russia’s “aggression” or even “genocide”...
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Eurasian Integration Is A Liberal Project Opposed By Neocon Bolsheviks
My latest for VoR/US-Russia Experts panel. Hope you like the title. The political fragmentation of the Soviet Union was one of the major contributing factors to the “hyper-depression” that afflicted...
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The Russian Aerospace Industry is Rapidly Recovering
More info against the Department of Russia Only Produces Oil and Vodka: Here are some graphs of Russian aerospace manufacturing courtesy of the Reality vs. Myths blog. (2013 figures are projections)....
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