Archivo etiqueta «Rusia»
Por Ígor Ivanov, diplomático y político ruso. Fue ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Rusia de 1998 a 2004, sucediendo a Yevgeni Primakov. Traducido por AB Traduktalia (EL PAÍS, 07/02/12):
En Rusia, la crisis financiera de la UE es observada con matices. Algunos la ven con cierta simpatía, mientras que otros la observan con malicia. Las dificultades de Europa reabren el debate sobre la relevancia de lo “europeo” en Rusia, que surge periódicamente en nuestra historia: lo occidental frente a lo eslavo. Atlantistas y euroasiáticos. Liberales y conservadores. Ahora, los “euroescépticos” rusos insisten en debatir qué es más importante y … Seguir leyendo
Por Andrei Piontkovsky, analista político ruso y miembro del consejo político del Movimiento Unido Democrático Solidarnost. © Project Syndicate [Versión en inglés] (LA VANGUARDIA, 05/02/12):
La historia de los sucesivos regímenes autoritarios rusos revela pautas recurrentes: sus caídas no se deben a golpes externos ni a sublevaciones locales. Por el contrario, tienden a colapsar por una extraña enfermedad interna: una combinación de creciente indignación de las élites consigo mismas y la conciencia del agotamiento del régimen. La enfermedad se asemeja a una versión política de la náusea existencial de Jean-paul Sartre y llevó tanto a la revolución … Seguir leyendo
By Yagil Beinglass and Daniel Brode, intelligence analysts at Max-Security Solutions, an Israeli geopolitical risk consulting firm (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 31/01/12):
Russia has been steadfast in its diplomatic support for the embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, even as Assad becomes ever more isolated within the Arab League and the international community.
The Kremlin sent a strong message earlier this month when its aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, anchored off the Syrian port of Tartus. Then last week, Moscow said a draft resolution introduced at the U.N. Security Council by the Arab League calling on Assad to … Seguir leyendo
By Vladimir Putin, prime minister of Russia. He is a candidate for the 2012 presidential election. This article contains excerpts from the official translation of an article that originally appeared in Izvestia. The complete translation of the article is available here (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 30/01/12):
On March 4, the people of Russia will be going to the polls to elect a president of the country. Extensive discussions are currently under way across society.
I consider it necessary to state my position on a number of issues that seem to be important in this broader debate over the risks and … Seguir leyendo
By Andrei Piontkovsky, Russian political analyst and a member of the political counsel of the Solidarnost United Democratic Movement [Versión en español] (Project Syndicate, 30/01/12):
The history of successive authoritarian regimes in Russia reveals a recurring pattern: they do not die from external blows or domestic insurgencies. Instead, they tend to collapse from a strange internal malady – a combination of the elites’ encroaching disgust with themselves and a realization that the regime is exhausted. The illness resembles a political version of Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential nausea, and led to both the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the … Seguir leyendo
Por Monika Zgustova, escritora (EL PAÍS, 28/01/12):
Durante mi viaje a Moscú, en septiembre de 2008, discutí con gente adicta a Vladímir Putin y no vi una protesta contra él ni por asomo. Durante mi siguiente viaje a Moscú, en marzo-abril de 2011, todos mis interlocutores sin excepción se quejaron amargamente del tándem Putin-Medvédev y el 31 de marzo me encontré en medio de una manifestación antigubernamental, una de las que se iban celebrando cada dos meses desde hacía un año y en las que participaron varios miles de moscovitas. ¿Qué pasó en esos tres años?
Entretanto, se celebró … Seguir leyendo
By Boris Akunin, the pen name under which Grigory Chkhartishvili, a Russian writer and literary scholar, has written dozens of best-selling historical detective novels. Under his own name, Chkhartishvili is an expert on Japanese literature. The article was translated from the Russian by the IHT (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 21/01/12):
On Sept. 24, when it was announced at the congress of the ruling party of Russia that our next president will once again be Vladimir Putin, my wife said to me: “That’s it. We need to leave. I don’t not want to spend the rest of my life in … Seguir leyendo
By Mikhail Prokhorov, running for the office of president of the Russian Federation (THE GUARDIAN, 11/01/12):
I’m not a man given to emotional outbursts. In fact, in my many years as a businessman, I’ve always tried to remain a little detached and not let my feelings get in the way of pragmatism. But in witnessing the changes going on in Russia today, I cannot help but feel a little stirring even in this hardened heart.
In the last six months we have become a bit unrecognisable to ourselves. As Russians, we have always loved to sit in the kitchen … Seguir leyendo
By Rachel Marsden, a columnist, political strategist and former Fox News host and the author of American Bombshell: A Tale of Domestic and International Invasion (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 05/01/12):
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s reaction to Moscow protesters perfectly illustrates how the former Soviet spy chief can masterfully leverage classic subversion strategies typically found in espionage to undermine the opposition and even ridicule the concept of democracy.
In the wake of the Russian parliamentary vote in early December, a Russian opposition leader far more radically communist than Putin was jailed, and protesters hit the streets to protest what they … Seguir leyendo
By Sergei Guriev, rector of the New Economic School in Moscow, and Aleh Tsyvinski, professor of Economics at Yale University (Project Syndicate, 30/12/11):
Twenty years ago, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned, the Soviet Union ended, and Russia began an imperfect transition to democratic capitalism – a transition that has proven to be far more difficult than expected. And yet the recent protests – somewhat similar to those that preceded the end of the Soviet Union – provide grounds for cautious optimism about the future.
So, what lessons can we draw from the successes and failures of Russia’s last … Seguir leyendo
By Dominique Moisi, author of The Geopolitics of Emotion (Project Syndicate, 30/12/11):
Russia is not Egypt. And Moscow is not on the eve of revolution as Cairo was less than a year ago. Indeed, Russia’s powerful have at their disposal assets that former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s regime lacked.
As an energy superpower, Russia can open its coffers to appease, at least in part, the humiliation that it has inflicted on its citizens by falsifying the country’s recent legislative election results. And not all Russians are in the streets. We should beware of the “zoom effect,” which made many … Seguir leyendo
Por Bill Keller, columnista de The New York Times, diario que dirigió entre julio de 2003 y junio de 2011, y del que fue corresponsal en Moscú durante la Perestroika. Traducción de María Luisa Rodríguez Tapia (EL PAÍS, 17/12/11):
En los últimos días de la Unión Soviética, pasé mucho tiempo en un complejo de torres de apartamentos situado junto al río Moscova, buscando respuesta a una pregunta que me parecía fundamental sobre el futuro de nuestro adversario durante la guerra fría: ¿Podría Rusia cultivar una auténtica clase media? No una clase privilegiada, formada por protegidos del Estado, sino una … Seguir leyendo
By Masha Gessen, a journalist and author who lives in Moscow. She is the author of the forthcoming book The Man Without a Face: The Rise and Rule of Vladimir Putin (THE GUARDIAN, 26/12/11):
Watching an authoritarian regime disintegrate is like watching an episode of the American television series House, MD. Someone who was enjoying an active lifestyle at the beginning of the series is experiencing multiple organ failure 15 minutes later, with the doctors frantically trying to figure out why, and which vital organ is going to go next.
A friend sent me a link to a programme … Seguir leyendo
By Robert Service, a fellow at Oxford’s St. Antony’s College and Stanford’s Hoover Institution and the author of the forthcoming book Spies and Commissars: the Early Years of the Russian Revolution (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 24/12/11):
Twenty years ago, Mikhail S. Gorbachev announced the end of a huge global experiment. After seven decades, the Soviet Union would be dismantled, its 15 republics becoming independent countries, and capitalism replacing the planned Soviet economy. Lenin’s embalmed corpse was left undisturbed in the Red Square mausoleum in Moscow, but the cause for which he led the October 1917 revolution no longer held … Seguir leyendo
By Victor Erofeyev, a Russian writer and television host. This article was translated from the Russian by the International Herald Tribune (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 16/12/11):
“I came, I falsified, I won” read an ironic poster with an image of Julius Caesar that I saw in the hands of a demonstrator who had come out to protest the rigging of the recent parliamentary elections. And there were tens of thousands of such demonstrators.
Incredible in scale, the mass demonstration last Saturday on Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square, within sight of the Kremlin, can be called, without exaggeration, the Bolotnaya Revolution. It’s … Seguir leyendo