Tag: Soviet nomenklatura

Primakov’s Death United Russians More than Crimea, a Measure of the Sickness of Russian Society, Portnikov Says

July 1, 2015

Staunton, July 1 The passing of Yevgeny Primakov “unexpectedly unified Russian society no less” and quite possibly more than the Crimean Anschluss, and the basis of this – an “indisputable faith in the greatness of the old Soviet nomenklatura” represents “a real diagnosis of the illness of Russian or more precisely post-Soviet society,” Vitaly Portnikov […]