“Russian grand reforms peter out”
Published: 10 September, 2009, 13:39
Edited: 12 September, 2009, 10:31
TAGS: Medvedev, Politics, Mass media
“I have seen this movie before,” said Fred Weir, journalist from Christian Science Monitor, commenting on Medvedev’s call for the citizens’ involvement in the discussion of key problems the country is facing.
“There’s been no shortage of Russian politicians who can bluntly, and sometimes with quite a lot of interesting and frank detail, opine the fundamental dilemmas the country faces,” he said.
But, Weir added, “I can also tell you how this movie ends.”
“When citizens start to show initiatives that challenge the authority or the traditional prerogatives of the state, they get put down,” Weir said.
“There are short circuits in this Russian political tradition. You start with these grand statements and necessary reforms but they peter out in various ways,” he said.
Weir and RT’s political commentator, Peter Lavelle, were commenting on Medvedev’s article published on Thursday, presenting his vision of strategic goals and challenges which Russia currently faces.
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Here is to suggest not over-reacting. It is the fact that generally Slavic tradition failed to conceive feedback as an essential part of the improvement control loop. This is the strategic job to be done and Medvedev is formatting it very well. CSM missed benevolence indicating they have parted from positive global feedback. If Russia is running short-circuits then CSM is idling non-synchronized. The point is to make these two systems generating power. Russia is not to improve and CSM to have an elegant waiting choice. The structural network must be detected and the Christian pickup yet to be engineered. We all better give up our pretentions to fully understand inner laws of life, which is visibly manifesting only a demand for inevitable engagement. In short – the challenge is on both sides. Let paraphrase the Christian Solaris Monitor: “There is no choice – both can only move”.
The Chrisitian Science Monitor is neither Christian or Scientific... they are Russia haters. They also write terrible articles about how the "all powerful"( their words), Russian Orthodox Church is not really a church. In fact I read one article a few years ago which inferred that ANY Orthodox Church in the world is NOT actually Christian but more of a cult. A CULT? The CSM is full of ATHEISTS so they hate any CHURCH!! RT, please do not give any print space to that loser outfit the CSM!! PLEASE!!!












I absolutely agree with the sentiments expressed in the article. Throughout history Russia has always been big on heroic posturing, and very poor on delivering the realities and details that the posturings promise. Those who have tried to actually make the promises work have been called dissidents, saboteurs or worse, and have soon been encouraged to “disappear”.