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"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.

Thursday, March 30, 2006

Illarionomics

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A couple of years ago it was somewhat amusing to read Andrei Illarionov’s rants. I think the main reason Putin paid him salary (he was Putin...
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Monday, March 27, 2006

Havel and Ukrainian elections

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Vaclav Havel, the former president of the Czech Republic, wrote an article in a German newspaper Die Welt on the hot topic of Ukrainian parl...
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Who is Mr Lukashenko?

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From Financial Times comes this editorial comment Bully boy of Belarus : Mr Lukashenko, brightly dubbed Europe's last dictator, made sur...
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Thursday, March 16, 2006

Stories from Orthodox

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Orthodox makes best comments on inosmi.ru forum. One can read all of his satirical stories here (knowledge of Russian is required). Here’s ...
Wednesday, March 15, 2006

US-Ukraine Cooperation

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Christian Science Monitor published an article “Keeping democracy alive in Ukraine” by Howard LaFranchi. Howard writes: But now as a system...
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Friday, March 10, 2006

March, 8 and Equality

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I know that most of American and European women view the way Russians celebrate the 8th of March as machismo and anti-feminism. Why on earth...
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Tuesday, March 07, 2006

8th of March - Women All Over the World, Unite!

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Long live the International Women's Day! Our friendship is unbreakable!
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