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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.

Saturday, May 14, 2005

Rich and Poor

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When Western journalists want to stress how poor Russians are they write about old people who have to survive on $200. Does it mean that if ...
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Russian Allies

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More and more often I hear, “Russia is loosing its allies among former Soviet now independent states”. Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova are gone. O...
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Thursday, May 12, 2005

Say you're sorry for the occupation

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At a press conference devoted to the V-Day celebrations in Moscow a young Estionian journalist asked Putin, “Why is it so hard for you to sa...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2005

"It's too easy to write off Putin as a despot" by Erofeyev

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Here's an interesting opinion published in the IHT Online.
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Monday, April 04, 2005

What Lenin and Joseph Smith have in common

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Randomly selected students were paid money to participate in a psychological experiment. They had to stay at a campus square for one hour wi...
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Monday, March 28, 2005

New Articles

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Kirill Pankratov's new article "Perestroika-20: The Great De-Build-ing" - The idea that Gorby's Politburo was thinking, ...
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Revolutionary Flora

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"Rose Revolution" - Georgia "Orange Revolution" - Ukraine "Tulip Revolution" - Kyrgyzstan Comming soon: Uzbeki...
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