Tag: convergence of political systems

Putinism is What the White Russians Might Have Implemented Had They Won, Pastukhov Says

May 25, 2015

Window on Eurasia

Staunton, May 25 — Given the recrudescence of Soviet institutions in the Russian-occupied Crimea and Donbass, ever more people are playing the game of “what if” – “what if” the August 1991 putsch or October 1993 clash in Moscow had ended another way or “what if” the anti-Bolshevik White Russians had defeated Lenin and returned […]

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Lack of Balance between Responsibility and Control Retarding Russia’s Economic Growth, Moscow Scholar Says

October 31, 2014

Window on Eurasia

Staunton, October 30 – Despite the convergence of the political systems of Russia and China, the Chinese economy is growing rapidly while Russia’s is lagging behind, the result, Andrey Yakovlev says, of Moscow’ failure compared to China to maintain a balance between responsibility and control. Yakovlev, a professor at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics, argues […]

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