At the Russian Antiwar Committee conference held last week in Strasbourg, former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov debated with columnist Tatyana Rybakova about the prospects for the Russian economy in the fifth year of the war in Ukraine. We publish the most interesting parts of their conversation

#Analytics #AntiWarCommitteeofRussia #VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #discussion #DonaldTrump #europe #lifeinRussia #WestandEast #inflation #Iran #China #MikhailKascentov #forecasts #XiJinping #USA #oilprices

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This is the final text about the problems of mass migration in Europe. More precisely, about the myths that make people think that migrants, especially from Muslim countries, are Europe's main problem. That the economy (for example, the German one) is stagnating because Germany has turned into either a transit point or a boarding house. Where new residents don't want to work, but to live on benefits.

#Analytics #AngelaMerkel #refugees #business #WarinUkraine #Germany #EuropeanUnion #WestandEast #migrants #Myths #Muse #Syria #welfarestate #servicesector #finance #Digitaleconomy #Emigration

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We continue the conversation about the «demise of beautiful Europe under the onslaught of barbarian migrants with their alien culture.» Such views are quite popular even among post-Soviet emigrants who have lived in the West for a long time. For example, among many of the more than a million Soviet Germans and Jews who moved to Germany. They genuinely worry that «Germany is not what it used to be.» It's high time to talk about how the German system works when it comes to cultural imports.

#AngelaMerkel #refugees #Germany #europe #WestandEast #leftandright #migrants #multiculturalism #aftertheUSSR #Emigration #essay

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In ancient times, it took the Jews forty years to mentally overcome slavery and enter the Promised Land. How long will it take us to overcome the Soviet past?

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In the previous text, we discussed that migrants in Europe are not «guests» at all. In Germany, where I (a migrant) live, 25-30% of all citizens have migrant roots. In this sense, Germany occupies in Europe the same place that America once did in the world. That is, a migrant is not a «wicked Chechen» who, in Lermontov's words, «crawls ashore, sharpening his dagger,» but an integral part of the German landscape. Now it is necessary to talk about the crime that migrants, according to the common opinion, bring with them (here, unfortunately, the common opinion is correct). And about the terrorism that is called «Islamic.»

#Analytics #AngelaMerkel #refugees #WarinUkraine #Germany #europe #WestandEast #migrants #aftertheUSSR #crime #Syria #Emigration

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After traveling through Russia in 1839, the French aristocrat Astolphe de Custine wrote a book that still shapes Western politicians’ views of the country. But beyond criticism of Russian customs, it also contains an unexpected political theory.

#19thcentury #AstolphedeCustine #bestseller #Decembrists #dissidents #europe #WestandEast #foreignersinRussia #historicalmemory #conservatism #finance #PyotrChaadaev #politicaltheory #Poland #rightandleft #revolution #reforms #RussianEmpire #France #civilization

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