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Editor’s Column17 June, 2009 Strategies for Russia’s Modernization Here’s Vladimir Frolov’s question/comment for this week’s Russia Profile’s panel of experts: “Russia’s President Dmitri Medvedev named technological innovation one of the key priorities of his presidency. A month before his election he outlined his ambitious “Four I’s” agenda which specifically called for weaning Russia away...
Editor’s Column03 June, 2009 On a German Take on the Russian Perspective Christian Wipperfuerth’s article on “The Russian Federation’s Foreign and Security Goals” recently posted at guardian-psj.ru was in fact a paper presented at a conference of high-ranking British, German, American and Ukrainian officers.
Editor’s Column06 March, 2009 Some four years ago there was a bit of social unrest in Russia. Mikhail Zurabov, then minister for healthcare and social development, carried out a reform that affected masses of old age pensioners, replacing benefits in kind – free medicines and the like – with their monetary equivalent.
Editor’s Column26 February, 2009 The nicest thing about the current global crisis – oops! That’s a nasty word, I mean a mere “economic downturn,” of course – is that you can always get a few laughs out of the cockeyed proceedings. To someone on the sidelines it’s as good as a circus, with countless clowns mountebanking in the public arena.
Year’s end. Time to sum up the year’s events and take a cautious look into the future. Alas, for some of us it’s time to think much bigger. Time to sum up a whole life – just in case. You know, like Somerset Maugham did.
Editor’s Column22 December, 2008 Peter Lavelle’s Question/Comment: Russia’s Gazprom has again warned Ukraine that if a new natural gas contract is not in place by the end of the year, the taps will be turned off. Should we expect more theatricals from Kiev?
Editor’s Column19 December, 2008 The Patriarch Is Dead, Long Live the Patriarch Peter Lavelle’s Question/Comment: The past week the Patriarch of the Russia Orthodox Church Aleksey II was laid to rest. He headed the Church for 18 years. No one doubts he played a major role in the revival of the Church and the return of religious values in public life.
Editor’s Column15 December, 2008 Washington Post Editorial and “Cross-cultural Intermediation” On Dec 6, 2008 the Washington Post published one of its typically Russophobic editorials offering President-elect Barack Obama all sorts of corny advice on how he should behave vis-à-vis Russia. Essentially, it told Mr. Obama to carry on in the Dick Cheney – Condoleezza Rice spirit.
Editor’s Column01 December, 2008 Peter Lavelle’s Question/Comment: This upcoming week NATO will meet. At the last meeting there was the promise that Ukraine and Georgia would eventually be given a Membership Action Plan and would end up in the alliance at some point.
Editor’s Column24 November, 2008 Economic Crises and Presidential Terms -- Through a Western Looking-glass. I sometimes envy Western correspondents who write about Russia the ease and comfort attendant on their job. Their formula is as simple as pie: blackwash anything that happens or does not happen in this country, and your copy will be a sure and easy sell.
Editor’s Column15 November, 2008 Peter Lavelle’s Question/Commentary: The Russia-EU summit in Nice France was not easy going, but it went nonetheless. There remain some fundamental differences separating the two sides. Shouldn’t Russia and the EU lower expectations for a new partnership and cooperation agreement?
Editor’s Column10 November, 2008 Obama’s victory over that Cold War relic, Senator McCain, has been welcomed, and even enthusiastically celebrated, by the “entire progressive mankind,” as we would have said in the good old Soviet times. |
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