Editorials
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Russia on the brink of ‘a tectonic shift’ in elite’s consciousnessAttacking the state's spending spree, ex-Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin dismissed the Kremlin's strategy of radical escalation of expenditures ‘a fantasy’... |
Oligarchs in classrooms will highlight collective retrograde amnesia among Russian eliteCalling on the oligarchs to share their questionable success stories with pupils is tantamount to giving them a legal sanctimony and whitewashing their shady pasts... |
Belarus economic disaster coverage shows Russia’s press at its finest bestRussian media CEOs, by raising the standard of their Belarus economic debacle coverage to a sky-high level, have set for themselves a new yardstick... |
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Kerimov’s Arab sheiks-style Anji investments good for Russian footballThe multibillionaire's commitment to Anji is underscored by the names of famous players that have been brought to the club in record transfer-breaking deals... |
Business as usual, as bureaucrats typically ignore Kremlin’s BoD ban against officialsThe appointment of First Deputy Prime Minister Shuvalov and other federal and regional officials to the VVTs board runs contrary to the Kremlin’s ban against bureaucrats sitting on state firms' BoDs... |
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Volga ship catastrophe once again highlights Russia’s ‘wild capitalism’ at its worstThe most heartbreaking thing is that such negative practices and business modus operandi are the ‘norms rather than notable exceptions’ in Russia... |
Japan’s tragedy and Chernobyl 25th anniversary question atomic energy necessityThis tragedy is one of the few misfortunes in human history, whose intensity and utter horridness of unprecedented destruction of lives never diminish with time... |
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Humanitarian interventions are not licenses for mass urban massacresThe West, since the Soviet demise, has been behaving as if it had obtained the ultimate license for ‘justifiable murders’ across the globe in the name of democracy... |
Undaunted Kremlin announces more extreme measures against perennial corruptionThe Kremlin’s daunting task is further complicated by the fact that most Russians have come to see bribe solicitations from bureaucrats as a social norm in the society... |
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