Life in Russia, for the average person, is lived “close to the bone.” Closer and closer to the bone as the economy suffers under the relentless attacks of the capitalist world. Well, there is no profundity in that statement I think to myself. On the one hand, what is true of Russia is true of the whole world, The vast[Read More...]
Three things have occurred simultaneously to bring joy to the hearts of the Babushki of Perovo on this Sunday morning: the sun is shining brilliantly, the fierce cold of the past months has subsided, and the paths are clean enough to walk. We emerge from our apartments to walk and sit in the sun in Perovski Park. My bones and[Read More...]
Frontline has done a series on Vladimir Putin, called The Putin Files. They are available on Youtube and are well worth the watch.
It is all about the Russian election now: the world press, the Russian press is filled with articles about the upcoming elections. Of course, the position of the West, which views Putin as Public Enemy #1, focuses on the fact that except for a brief hiatus when his friend Medvedev served as Prime Minister, Putin has led Russia since 2000. [Read More...]
In his Lectures on the History of Philosophy, in his Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel drove home the point that one thing does not replace another, just like that, plain and simple. Rather, that which has been is carried forward, moved from one level to another in an ongoing evolutionary process. So it is with the Soviet Union; it is not[Read More...]
