RUSSIA DEBATES ITS FUTURE
It is often said that Russia lacks a ‘civil society.’ But what it may lack in this regard it makes up for in possessing a rather interesting public sphere, in which serious topics do get debated, and glimpses of the great members of society are not entirely confined to televised snippets.
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06 октября 2010
THE LEVEL OF THE YAROSLAVL FORUM WAS RATHER HIGH
IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN, born in 1933, is an American social scientist, historical scientist, and one of the most outstanding world-systems analysts. He is a professor at Yale University and was the former head of the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University.
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06 октября 2010
THE YAROSLAVL FORUM IS GOOD FOR RUSSIA’S DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT
President Medvedev chose democracy as a major topic for the 2010 Yaroslavl Forum, indicating that it is not merely an abstract subject for him, and that perhaps he himself is a democrat.
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06 октября 2010
