Russian Blog

"Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem." The universal methodological principle, known as Okkam's razor, says "Entities are not to be multiplied above the necessary." I try to use this principle to understand Russia - if there is a more simple way to explain something, then this way should be closer to truth than a more complex one.

Sunday, January 29, 2006

Snarling Winnie-the-Pooh

›
An experienced Soviet propaganda journalist had to go through a five-year university course as he needed extraordinary skills in order to ha...
5 comments:
Saturday, January 28, 2006

Anther color revolution

›
Just a couple of months ago every Western "analitist" was wondering - where the the next color revolution would take place? "...
4 comments:
Friday, January 27, 2006

Putin the Paranoid

›
From BBC News comes “ Georgians blame 'GasPutin' for crisis ”: The crisis began on Sunday, when a series of explosions blew up two g...
Thursday, January 19, 2006

General Frost

›
A couple of years ago I talked with one British intellectual about WWW2. As almost all British intellectuals younger than 50 he soon started...
11 comments:
Monday, January 16, 2006

Be Brave!

›
2 comments:
Monday, January 09, 2006

Nice Exceptions

›
Sometimes I find articles that recover my trust in the freedom of press in Europe. In case with the Russian-Ukrainian gas conflict 99% of We...
8 comments:
Friday, January 06, 2006

Who Is to Gain?

›
For those of my readers who wonder what kind of articles we read in Soviet newspapers some thirty years ago here’s a very good example – Jim...
3 comments:
‹
›
Home
View web version
Powered by Blogger.