THE RUSSIAN MIDDLE CLASS: by Jon Hellevig…

The rapid economic growth enables the overwhelming majority of Russians, the large well-educated culturally advanced population, alias middle class, to fulfill its potential. Not only fundamentally but even in accordance with the economic figures the life conditions of these people more and more resemble those of the Western Europeans. The Aleksanteri Institute is the center

Road to Damascus…and on to Armageddon?

“Western politicians and media are not yet fighting World War III, but they are talking themselves into it.” By DIANA JOHNSTONE; February 13, 2012 – What if pollsters put this question to citizens of the United States and the European Union: “Which is more important, ensuring disgruntled Islamists freedom to overthrow the secular regime in