RUSSIA: NOT RULING POWER AND SOCIETY, BUT NOBILITY AND PEOPLE
If we are to believe sociologists then I would say the answer is more likely yes than no. It is unlikely that there are no demands at all. The institutions are there formally, yet in reality we experience a certain lack of them. I would say that it’s a lack of an adjusted device. |
30 марта 2011
THE SNARE OF HABERMAS
‘If we speak the truth, people will believe us less and less’ – such is the paradox faced nowadays by the ruling establishment in authoritarian countries attempting to implement reforms. Evidently, this paradox has the following structure: by ‘tightening the bolts’ slowly, a regime loses credibility. |
30 марта 2011
DMITRY MEDVEDEV AND THE NEW REALPOLITIK-2012
There is a new uprising of the masses happening in the world. At the same time, the winter of the Maghreb revolutions has insensibly evolved into the spring of Middle East interventions. The format of globalisation is changing quickly and unpredictably. Is there really a crisis of the Russian state system within the new global context? |
30 марта 2011
