“The problem for authoritarian regimes is not economic growth. The problem is how to pay the patronage for their elites, how to keep the elites loyal, especially the security services and the upper levels of the officer corps. If money just gushes out of the ground in the form of hydrocarbons or diamonds or other minerals, the oppressors can ( Read more... )

Our quaint research field has begun to suffer. The workshop centered on exiled Russian artists in the early twentieth century has been postponed “due to the current political circumstances”.



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