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Maidan 2013: A Multi-Dimensional Dialectic of Resistance (A View from the Left)

Aleksander Buzgalin — 2014-01-23T10:18:34Z

As this text is being written, the outcome of the resistance remains undecided, but the author is certain that one way or another, the present Ukrainian authorities will draw closer to the European Union. Meanwhile, one thing is clear: the profound problems of Ukraine, and of Russia's relations with it, will not be solved as a result.

- IV468 - January 2014 / Ukraine

Russian Social Forum Success

Aleksander Buzgalin — 2006-08-15T11:36:26Z

The second Russian Social Forum has just come to an end in
St.Petersburg. Despite various obstacles put by the state authorities
(including arbitrary detention of activists and other forms of police
repression), more than a thousand people from different regions of
Russia, and also from many other countries, attended the gathering.

- IV380 - July-August 2006 / Russia, Social Forum

Signs of change

Aleksander Buzgalin — 2002-05-16T00:00:00Z

There is nothing surprising in the fact that the economic revival in Russia which began in late 1998 is now giving way to stagnation. Even when the recovery was only just beginning, independent experts were pretty accurate in their predictions of how long it would last: if Russia's economy was going to develop by inertia, then the factors which brought about the economic upswing would play themselves out in about two to two-and-a-half years. And that's exactly what happened.

- IV340 - May 2002 / Russia