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Russian-Georgian conflict: victory or defeat?
September 03, 2008
Euphoria
I track the Georgian-Russian conflict through American, English and Russian mass media. Naturally, the Anglo-Saxons and the Russians interpret the same events entirely differently. It is practically impossible to understand who is in the right and who is in the wrong. One thing only is obvious: the West is on Georgia’s side, Russia is on its own side.
Let us examine Russia’s reaction.
October 01,2008
Russian-Belarusian integration: playing games behind the Kremlin walls. By Alex Danilovich. Ashgate, 2006. 234 pages.
Alex Battler
Ordinarily Western authors writing about USSR/Russia – even more so when writing about Belarus – have difficulty remaining ideologically neutral. They slide involuntarily into plain anti-communism which impedes objective analysis of the object they are researching. There are exceptions, but they are few and far between. The work by Alex Danilovich may be considered such an exception – to a degree; he attempted to analyze from an objectivist position the problem of integration (or reunification) between Russia and Belarus.
President Putin’s address to the Russians
December 27, 2007
The people were listening to the Leader
in a fright-state of danger-fraught joy.
Andrei Platonov
Esteemed citizens of Russia!
So the year of the Pig is past – the year 2007, that is. It was not an easy year. I will give it to you straight: it was a destiny-making year for Russia, the year when Russia finally rose from its knees and proclaimed: we are a Great Power again! You owe this glory, dear citizens, to yourselves and to your President whom you respect and love, judging by the latest elections to the Duma.
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On behalf of the President of the Russian Federation,
Alex Battler
Philodoxy of the philistine and scientific thinking
February 22, 2008
In 2006 I published a book-sized essay titled On Love, Family, and the State (Moscow, KomKniga, 2006). I knew it was bound to annoy both professionals (specialists in “gender issues”, as they are called today) and regular philistines. The former (at one of their “gender institutions”) told me that the work is very interesting indeed, but controversial; many of the points made in it arouse objections. However, they never published their “objections” anywhere (not even on their websites), for in that case they would have had to build a system of counter-arguments and collect counter-statistics to refute my theory. They found none, so they should better keep mum.
Putin as a mirror of Russia gone mad
November 17, 2007
Many link today’s climate of paranoia in Russia to the approaching elections. This is not quite right, for Russia became ill back in the early 1990s. Back then the disease was of a “physical” nature in the sense that it caused more than half of the Soviet economy to be destroyed, the population to start shrinking, and especially the average lifespan of men to shorten.
In the current decade the disease switched to the Russian people’s brains, or, to use a foreign word, to their “mentality” – “umostroi”, in Russian. Obviously, there are brains and then there are brains. For example, there are the brains of the philistines; they are formed by “eyeing”, “feeling” and by the bullshit that is fed to them by the mass media – television first of all...
Latest addition to "Books" section:
On Love, Family, and the State (Philosophical-sociological Essay)
The problems of love, family and state are topics that are widely discussed both in the West and in Russia. This essay, however, differs from all previous research work in that Alex Battler elevated the well-known words “love,” “family” and “marriage” to the level of concepts. This enabled the author to correlate them to the conception of force and progress he had substantiated in the book Dialectics of Force: Ontóbia, and ultimately to define the regular connection between the destruction of marriage and the collapse of state within the context of the law of entropy growth, or “the law of death.” ...
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