Archives for December 2012

Major Misconceptions About The Dima Yakovlev Law

This in about Demographics, and tagged , , , , was written by on December 30, 2012 . 25 Comments

1. For Russian orphans life is much more dangerous in Russia than in America. Let’s agree to disregard the hidden subtext which implies that any country ought to give over its orphans to foreign nationals should it be ranked safer for children. Let’s first examine if the claim that Russia is 39 times more dangerous […]

The Guardian On China And Russia

This in about Demographics, and tagged , , , , was written by on December 29, 2012 . 3 Comments

Keeping up with the Guardian’s stream of textual diarrhea in its Russia coverage is a quixotic task, and one that I do not really have the stamina for (although Alex Mercouris does this remarkably effectively). Still, when it comes to certain issues I’m particularly interested in, such as demography, or China-Russians relations as in this […]

Translation: A Hell Of Their Own Making

This in about Society, and tagged , , was written by on December 19, 2012 . 26 Comments

Believe it or not but some people call me a Russophobe. Even more shockingly, perhaps, I plead guilty (at least in the sense that I do not have a very high opinion of the Russian people). There are only two logical alternatives: (1) Claims that Russia really is as good as Western Europe and the US […]