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    The Emerging Geo-Strategic Landscape in Central Asia
    June 2011
    Ross Eventon

    Recent developments in Afghanistan suggest the New Great Game is intensifying in Central Asia.

    Privatization Follies
    June 2011
    Boris Kagarlitsky

    Who will benefit from a second wave of privatisation in Russia?

    Radical Retirees
    February 2011
    Boris Kagarlitsky

    Russia's youth are much less radical or politically active than Russia's retirees - putting up little resistance as officials gradually encroach upon their rights and entitlements.

    Video: Emerging Powers: Allies or Rivals?
    January 2011
    Boris Kagarlitsky
     Dr. Chaohua Wang, Research Scholar in Chinese Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

    The economic elites are turning to a neoliberal Keynesianism to save the crisis of capitalism, which is doomed to fail because it does not address its root causes.

    Global Crisis: A Russian Perspective
    January 2011
    Boris Kagarlitsky

    The world systems analysis is failing to explain and respond to the current crisis in global capitalism.

    The Return of Fascism
    December 2010
    Boris Kagarlitsky

    The logic of Russian fascists has always stood in sharp contrast to the logic and traditions of the development of the nation.

    Prokhorov’s Shock Modernization
    November 2010
    Boris Kagarlitsky

    The public outrage that was caused by the leakage of a controversial amendment to the Labor Code in Russia might backfire beyond what the unions anticipated.

    Norma Rae Would Be Proud
    October 2010
    Boris Kagarlitsky

    While intellectuals debate whether Russia has a civil society, union leaders created an organization independent of government control with thousands of members.

    A Burning Wake-Up Call
    September 2010
    Boris Kagarlitsky

    Russian authorities and much of the Russian public have pretended up to now that there were no costs to privatisation of forests and that there was no climate crisis. We have to hope this year's fires and heatwave causes a change in policy.

    Creating a Nation of Poor, Sick and Ignorant
    June 2010
    Boris Kagarlitsky

    A new bill has been passed in Russia that will extensively roll back Government funding of education, the arts and social services - by introducing per capita financing - that will punish smaller towns and downgrade quality in the larger ones.

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