Archive for February 28th, 2008
Personality Cash Cow
By Sean at 28 February, 2008, 4:46 pm
T-minus three days and counting. Russians will go to the polls on Sunday to cast their votes for a new President. But one shouldn’t get to carried away with the casting votes part. Yes, Russians will vote, but no one has any doubt who the victor will be. Dmitri Medvedev will be the third President [...]
Read More >>Monetary Middle Class
By Sean at 28 February, 2008, 1:52 pm
The Russian “middle class” remains an elusive and rather unclear category. It’s an entity that is recognized, but what exactly are its contours is rarely clearly defined. Kommersant has fitted one piece into the Russian middle class puzzle. The Russian middle class, at least as defined by Kommersant, is purely monetary. I’ve [...]
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