Miracle or not, Putin on course to win in Russia

[mai]

Kasz216 said:

mai said:

Kasz216 said:
3)  I didn't really see anything he wrote in the entire post that actually disagreed with it.  Just the source.

Sources, Kaz, sources. Mention of Gaidar, Transparency International, Freedom House, Shleifer are worth a lot of ":D" as well. Bibliography of research defines it well enough to make a judgement if said research is a worthy material or not, any academic or school teacher will tell you that.

For better understanding (since we're on gaming site after all), it's like hardcorez vs casual stuff (or whatever is trendy today? have been out of gaming for a while) and people who in all seriousness trying to base their knowledge on this two-leged scheme, ignoring its' shortcomings, rather than just denying it all together as completely broken. And that's not surprising, since said gaming memeplex (or "memthology" if you will) as well as Aslund's stuff you brought up here (which is really typical middle-class European political analytic or enthusiast opinion) are two of the same kind, despite what phantom relations to reallity they might have, both were cultivated for a completely different purpose.

Not sure if I making myself clear though :D

Pretty much.  You are disagreeing with it soley because of anti-western europeon bias and paranoia and simply not wanting it to be true.  Transparity International for example is a perfectly fine source.

No, Kaz, I disagreeing with it mainly because Aslund is an typical and well-rounded idiot, and here's really not much else to say ;D I don't consider, say, Zbigniew Brzezinski an idiot despite the fact he is a complete russophobe.

 

P.S.: And that's so nice that you accused me of being biased, having an agenda or some sort of paranoia :D In fact, I did you a favour, because, really, people who live in glass houses...