SUNDAY JUNE 7 CONTENTS
(1) EDITORIAL: Mr. Medvedev, his Carpet and his Broom
(3) Kiselyov on Russia’s History Fascism
SUNDAY JUNE 7 CONTENTS
(1) EDITORIAL: Mr. Medvedev, his Carpet and his Broom
(3) Kiselyov on Russia’s History Fascism
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EDITORIAL
Mr. Medvedev, his Carpet and his Broom
See Dima sweep. Sweep, Dima, Sweep! Under the carpet! Sweep, sweep, sweep!
Streetwise Professor reports that last week Russian “president” Dima Medvedev announced a massive new slate of spending reductions forced upon his government by the national economic collapse. Paul Goble reports that among these will be a brutal slashing of the budget for the 2010 census.
Let’s overlook the fact that the Putin regime is apparently still able to find plenty of funds for nuclear weapons and other ways of provoking and escalating the new cold war, sending all sorts of wealth to all sorts of places from Venezuela to Syria. Let’s not focus on what these draconian cutbacks mean for the people of Russia. Let’s instead watch Dima feverishly trying to sweep it all under the carpet.
Russian pundit Yevgeny Kiselyov, writing in the Moscow Times:
I would be fascinated to know if Westerners can fully appreciate the political significance behind President Dmitry Medvedev’s decision to create a special commission “for counteracting attempts to falsify history to the detriment of Russia’s interests.” Most foreigners would probably say, “This is very strange. Doesn’t Russia have more pressing problems it needs to tackle, such as the managing the crisis, modernizing the country’s political and economic institutions or battling corruption?”
Had the year been 1950, when the Soviet Union was making colossal efforts to recover from the aftermath of World War II, foreigners would have been equally perplexed that Josef Stalin chose that moment to initiate a huge public debate on the Marxist approach to linguistics.
A Russian photographer offers the following images of migrant workers in Moscow, how they live and how they work. Their indomitable spirit is an inspiration to us all, as is the rancid nature of their neo-Soviet oppression. Click the link for many more (hat tip Global Voices).
The Wall Street Journal reports:
The German government has bound the fate of General Motors Corp.’s (GM) European business to the faltering Russian economy by selecting auto-parts supplier Magna International (MG.A.T) as a partner for Adam Opel.
{Click the link to read the rest, explaining how Russia has been suckered into a major boondoggle by the Germans}