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By: Michael Averko

Michael Averko — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:49:23 +0000

Like the Chinese have taken over southern California. The Alien and Sedition Act being suggested all over again. It has never come as a thought to some that the Chinese in Russia will not develop a separatist agenda. BTW, much of Russia’s fareast was never Chinese. Only a thin strip along the current border.

Divide and conquer. Russia and China enjoy pretty good relations. The brief Sino-Sovet rivalry was the only significantly tense relationship involving Beijing and Moscow/St. Pete based governments.

By: Michael Averko

Michael Averko — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:39:51 +0000

The Prokhonov reference having to do with Putin getting critiqued from a right view, which skirts the line of many on the mainstream Russian patriotic side. As entertaining as some found it, the Arutunyan-Albats exchange saw the neocon to neolib Albats going up against someone who can’t be considered as being as clear a political opposite of Albats, relative to other available options.

By: Chrisius Maxima

Chrisius Maxima — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:38:01 +0000

“Latynina is an idiot. She believes the only purpose of toll roads is to control traffic, and thinks renting a few million acres of forest in the Tyumen area to the Chinese is the start of China taking over Russia.”

That’s part of the extreme Westernizer schtick. The East is Bad; the West is Good.

By: W. Shedd

W. Shedd — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:37:08 +0000

For clarity’s sake – the people I always heard the FSB or Mafia story from were Russians (my wife included). It has an urban legend sort of feel about it, but still I would always hear that when you have a successful business, eventually you are approached and have to make that choice.

That is one of the reasons why my father-in-law has never moved his dentistry practice to Moscow. He runs a very respectable and modern dental practice, but even at that he has a tough enough time avoiding being put under the thumb of local bureaucrats.

Myth or not, I didn’t get this “roof” idea from Western newspapers or magazines. And corruption of this kind may be rapidly becoming a thing of the past. But I know many Russians just widely accept it as fact, true or not.

By: Michael Averko

Michael Averko — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:34:57 +0000

RM:

What was pathetic about that last one was how she used that issue to attack the Russian government from a patriotic view.

Much like Ekho Moskvy employing Prokhonov and having Anna Arutunyan go up against Yevgenia Albats.

By: ReluctantMuscovite

ReluctantMuscovite — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:20:13 +0000

Latynina is an idiot. She believes the only purpose of toll roads is to control traffic, and thinks renting a few million acres of forest in the Tyumen area to the Chinese is the start of China taking over Russia.

By: Michael Averko

Michael Averko — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:45:25 +0000

For clarity sake: AG was the principle of TRJ during its prime.

By: Michael Averko

Michael Averko — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:41:35 +0000

“I had thought the rumor always was, if you have a successful business in Russia, at some point you have to decide if you are under the protection of the FSB or the Russian Mafia.”

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