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The foolishness of U.S. Russia policy

... many of those who shape our Russia policy must have seen these articles. (or, maybe they don't read). How can the sustained foolishness of US Russia policy be explained? Maybe the late Director of the (Russian) Institute of the USA and Canada, Georgi Arbatov hit the nail on the head in an interview he gave in the late 1980s. At a time when Americans were still very skeptical that Gorbachev was for real, Arbatov said in an interview: "We are going to do a terrible thing to you. We are ...

16.11.2015

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How Russia’s ‘Sistema’ Leads To The ‘Modernization Trap’

.... In a conversation I had with Ledeneva she agreed that, to a significant extent, the behavioral patterns she describes were already formed under the Soviet regime, and that the sistema as it exists today is a direct legacy of the Soviet sistema. Georgi Arbatov's book which,like hers, is also entitled The System (Человек Системы), complements her argument. Ledeneva's informal networks closely resemble those Arbatov describes. Mainstream Western specialists on the ...

03.10.2014

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U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements	33 (31%)
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