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Lyndon LaRouche Article: Soviet Ideology and Creativity, June 2006
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Pushkin and Schiller - Fidelio Article by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
3 Poems by Pushkin (in English) by Rachel Douglas
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2018
2017
Week of November 26, 2017
Press Release: Trump, Putin Spoke by Phone for an Hour
Press Release: Putin Meets Assad and Briefs Trump
Week of October 29, 2017
Concert: A CONCERT FOR PEACE: Commemorating 100 Years of Russia-US Relations, NYC 11/17/2017
Strategy: China, Russia Warn Europe and U.S.: Your Anti-Nation-State Policies Are Coming Back To Haunt You
Week of September 24, 2017
Strategy: Britain Is the Enemy Behind ‘Russiagate’
Video: EIR Seminar: The "Russian Hack" Inside Job: Who's Trying To Destroy The Presidency And Start A World War With Russia A special event with the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. 9/9/2017 NYC
Week of September 10, 2017
Strategy: China And Russia Drive New Paradigm: BRICS Summit and Eastern Economic Forum Give Hope to Mankind
Week of August 27, 2017
Press Release:Russian Foreign Ministry: Trump’s Afghan Policy Ignores ‘Combatting the Afghan Drug Threat’
Week of August 20, 2017
Press Release: Opium Production Funds Terrorism in Afghanistan, Russian Foreign Ministry Reminds Trump, NATO
Week of July 16, 2017
Helga Zepp-LaRouche: Editorial: Most Positive Outcome of the G-20 Summit: The Putin-Trump Meeting
Press Release: Some Democrats Realize Russiagate Is a Dangerous Losing Strategy
Week of July 9, 2017
Helga Zepp-LaRouche: If Trump, Putin and Xi Work Together, the World Can Move Away from the Abyss and Towards a New Paradigm
Week of July 2, 2017
Video: Presidents Xi and Putin Meet on the Eve of the Group of 20 Summit
News Brief: Russia Delivers More Rocket Engines to U.S.\xA0
Week of June 4, 2017
Press Release: With Obama Out, More U.S. Companies Attend St. Petersburg Forum
Week of May 21, 2017
Press Release:Putin and Italian Prime Minister Gentiloni Map Relations and Trade Potentials
Week of May 14, 2017
Strategy: Nazis Attack Ukrainian Political Leaders Natalia Vitrenko and Vladimir Marchenko
Week of April 30, 2017
Interview: April 5, 2017 – Helga Zepp-LaRouche in Sputnik on Trump-Xi potential
Week of March 19, 2017
Press Release:Russia Charges West Turns Blind Eye to Neo-Nazism, While Feigning Concern For ‘Liberal Western Values’
Week of March 5, 2017
Press Release:Syrian Army Liberates Palmyra for the Second Time
Week of February 26, 2017
HIGHlITE: Schiller Institute Sponsors Dialogue with San Francisco Russian Consul General Sergey Petrov
Week of February 12, 2017
Invitation: Schiller Institute hosts discussion on U.S.-Russian Relations, 2/18/2017 near San Francisco with Russian Consul General Sergey Petrov, with extended dialogue ranging from China's Belt and Road initiative, the dangers of war and terrorism, to space policy.
Strategy: Therefore Choose Life
Press Release: Russia, China, and United States Cooperation Will Benefit the World: Ambassador Denisov
Press Release: Polish Leader Warns Ukraine To Stop the Neo-Nazis
Week of January 22, 2017
Strategy: The Foreign Power Corrupting U.S. Politics Is London, not Moscow by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Week of January 8, 2017
Music: Hands Across the Oceans
Press Release: Russian Scientists Are Developing an Ion Collider To Probe Matter-Antimatter Interactions, Beyond Standard Physics
Memorial: Russians and Americans Remember Victims in Memorial Ceremony
Week of January 1, 2017
Music: Christmas Remembrance of the Alexandrov Ensemble and the Victims of 9-11
Press Release: Abe Wants Independence from the U.S., and Is Getting It Through Putin’s Intervention
Strategy: Putin in Japan—A Transformation of Asia
2016
Week of December 25, 2016
Helga Zepp-LaRouche: Message of Condolence to the Alexandrov Ensemble and the People of Russia
Interview: Senator Mike Gravel: ‘Hacking the Election’ Charge Is Ridiculous
Economy: The End of Globalization (video and transcript of video presentation by Helga Zepp-LaRouche to a conference at Dubna International University, near Moscow.)
Week of December 18, 2016
Strategy: British Empire's Nightmare Coming True, as Turkey, Russia, Iran Relations Solidify
Week of December 11, 2016
Press Release:Chronology: The ’Blame Russia’ Operation for Election Interference Is a British Fraud
Press Release: Galbraith: Russian Actions in Palmyra ‘A Benefit to Mankind'
Week of October 30, 2016
Strategy: Azov and Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) Seize Progressive Socialists’ Office
Week of October 23, 2016
Press Release: Jihadis Blocking Delivery of Humanitarian Aid in Aleppo but Russia Is Blamed
Press Release: Putin and Erdogan Discuss Syria and Mosul Operations, Ash Carter Deployed To Run Interference
Week of October 9, 2016
Press Release: Russia Presses On with Diplomacy, Despite U.S. Provocations and Threats
Week of October 2, 2016
Press release: Russia Tells U.S.To Stop Cozying Up to Terrorists
Week of September 18, 2016
Press Release:UN Official Walks Back on Evidence of Airstrike on Convoy, Basis of Blaming Russia; Meetings and Dialogue on Syria Continue
Week of July 31, 2016
Press Release: Russia Invites NATO Officials to Moscow for ‘Constructive Dialogue’ on Avoiding Conflicts
Press Release: China and Russia To Deepen Anti-Terror Cooperation
Press Release: LaRouche: ISIS Threat to Putin Could Have Strategic Fallout
Week of July 24, 2016
Press Release: Helga Zepp-LaRouche: After Nice, Würzburg and Munich, Cooperation With Russia Is Even More Urgent
Week of July 3, 2016
Week of June 26, 2016
Political Economy: The St. Petersburg Forum and the World of the Near Future
Week of June 19, 2016
Press Release: Russia and China Preparing High-Tech Cooperation at Summit
Week of May 29, 2016
Strategy: Listen to Putin’s Plain Talk on War Danger
Week of May 8, 2016
Strategy: ‘Immortal Regiment’ Marches to Honor Those Who Fought, And Fight, Against Fascism
UPDATE: NATO’S New Operation Barbarossa: What Business Does the German Military Have in Lithuania? by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Week of May 1, 2016
News Brief: Syria Planning Reconstruction Conference, Reaching Out to the BRICS and Other Friendly Countries
News Brief: France’s National Assembly Votes To Lift Russian Sanctions
Helga Zepp-LaRouche: War with Russia, China, and India, or Global Development Partnership?
Strategy: NATO's “Operation Barbarossa”: What on Earth Is the Bundeswehr Doing in Lithuania? by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Week of April 3, 2016
Strategy:Chatham House Pushes ‘Permanent Confrontation’ Against Russia
Week of March 20, 2016
In Memoriam: Academician Mikhail Titarenko, Visionary of Eurasian Cooperation
Week of February 28, 2016
News Brief: Russia, United States Upset British Gameboard; Reach Agreement for Syrian Ceasefire
Week of February 21, 2016
Video: The World Order – Natalia Vitrenko’s View
Russia: Vladimir Putin and the New Hope for Mankind
2015
Week of December 27, 2015
Press Release:Russia Keeping Up the Pressure on Turkey, Hits at Drug Trafficking
Press Release:Seymour Hersh Indicts Obama Again—This Time on War Against Putin and Arming ISIS
Week of December 20, 2015
Press Release:Russian Conference Hears LaRouche Greeting, Zepp-LaRouche Presentation on Silk Road
Press Release:SCO Prime Ministers Meeting Calls for Cooperation in Security, Production Capacity, and Connectivity
Helga Zepp-LaRouche: U.S. and Russia Must Work Together; Only a New Paradigm Can Prevent Fascism!
Week of November 29, 2015
Press Release: U.S. and Russia on a Hair-Trigger for Nuclear War
Press Release: Russian Air Forces Commander: Turkish Behavior Shows the Shootdown was a Deliberate Act
Press Release: Obama Continues Confrontation with Putin at Paris Meeting
Week of November 22, 2015
Russia: Dubna, Russia : A Universal Model for Cities along the New Silk Road and the World Landbridge!
Week of November 1, 2015
Russia: Schiller Institute Visits Dubna, Russia, the Science City
Week of October 18, 2015
Press Release: General Kujat and Parliamentarian Gehrcke Urge Merkel To Bring U.S. and Russia Together To Stop Syria War
Press Release: Obama Won’t Receive a Russian Military Delegation on Coordination
Week of October 11, 2015
Press Release: Russia Puts Forward a Multi-Decade Space Exploration Program
Press Release: British Pilots Authorized To Shoot Down Russian Planes over Syria
Press Release: Putin, in Rossiya-TV Interview, Discusses Planning and Goals of Syria Campaign
Press Release: Retired U.S. Military Push for U.S.-Russian Cooperation in Syria
Press Release: At Rhodes Conference, Yakunin Announces Creation of New Research Institute to Promote Global Infrastructure
Week of September 27, 2015
Lyndon LaRouche: LaRouche Replies to Questions From a Russian Journalist
Week of September 13, 2015
Press Release: Lavrov Challenges Kerry’s ‘Strange Suggestion’ on Syria
Week of September 6, 2015
Strategy: LaRouche: Putin Can Change the Game with Syria Intervention
Week of August 23, 2015
Strategy: A Warning From Germany: ELN Study Warns: NATO-Russia Maneuvers Make Nuclear War More Likely
Week of August 16, 2015
Transcript: Sputnik Interviews Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Week of August 2, 2015
Strategy: US Analyst Claims Geopolitics Could Lead to Extinction of Human Race (Sputnik News interviews Helga Zepp-LaRouche; audio included)
Let’s Create a Youth Movement In Support OF the BRICS! Presentation to Schiller Institute Conference in Paris, June 13-14, 2015, by Tatiana Seliverstova
Press Release: Glazyev: Greek Referendum, an Uprising against the "World Money Power," Sets a Precedent
Transcript: World War III, or a Worldwide Renaissance? Why the ‘West’ Must Collaborate with BRICS for the Common Aims of Mankind (Craig Isherwood at Civil BRICS Forum in Moscow)
Transcript: Sputnik Interview with Helga Zepp-LaRouche on the Schiller Institute BRICS Petition
News Brief: Sputnik Interview with Helga Zepp-LaRouche on the Schiller Institute BRICS Petition
Obituary: Yevgeni Primakov, Who Pulled Russia Back from the Brink, Has Died
Press Release: Glazyev: BRICS NDB Won’t Compete with IMF/ADB, Since They Gave up on Development!
Helga Zepp-LaRouche: Two Systems: Russia’s Role
Physical Economy: A Russian Vision: The Industrial Development of Afghanistan and Central Asia
Strategy: EU Bluff Against Greece and Russia Raises War Threat by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
Strategy: U.S. Nuclear Warfighting Plan Could Wipe Out the Human Race
Press Release: Kammenos Calls for Plan B: Seek Funding from China and Russia
Strategy: EIR Fact Sheet: Who Is Behind the Drive To Dismember Russia?
2014
LaRouches Deliver Keynote Speeches to Dubna University Scientific Conference in Russia
Press Release: The Hamiltonian System, “America’s Gift to the World,” Is the Key to Solving the Strategic Crisis
In Memoriam: Stanislav Mikhailovich Menshikov: Russian Economist Sought Dialogue with U.S.A., Even in Perilous Times
Strategy: The Russian Humanitarian Aid to the Donetsk Residents Is Legitimate
Strategy: Sanctions Against Russia: Preparation for World War
Press Release: VIPS Demand Obama Release Evidence on MH17 Crash
Press Release: EIR Presents “On Eurofascism,” by Russian Academician and Presidential Advisor Sergei Glazyev
Strategy: Moscow Conference Honors Kuznetsov and Vernadsky
Update: The LaRouches at Moscow Conference Honoring Kuznetsov and Vernadsky (update of article titled "The LaRouches Address Russian Academy of Sciences", published last week)
Strategy: The LaRouches Address Russian Academy of Sciences: Prospects for the Survival of Mankind
Vitrenko Brings Warning of Ukrainian Neo-Nazi Coup to European Parliament
Transcript: Helga Zepp-LaRouche Addresses Diplomatic Luncheon Feb. 2014
Organizing Leaflet: War is Not an Option Feb. 2014
Map: Stop the Risk of Thermonuclear World War! Feb. 2014
LaRouche Show: Impeach Obama, Before Thermonuclear War Starts in UkraineFeb. 2014
Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reads the “Riot Act” at Pro-EuroMaidan Event in Washington DC Feb. 2014
Sergei Glazyev Exposes U.S. Hand in Ukraine Feb. 2014
Voice of Russia Publishes Interview with Helga Zepp-LaRouche on Fascist Threat in Ukraine Feb. 2014
Western Powers Back Neo-Nazi Coup in Ukraine Feb. 2014
The Empire Lashes Out Jan. 2014
Is Europe Sleepwalking Its Way To World War, as in 1914? by Helga Zepp-LaRouche January 2014
2013
Press Release: Leading Ukrainian Economist: Russia Has saved Ukraine 'for the moment'; Now Change the Entire Economic Model! (EIR)
Press Release: IMF Demands Ukraine Commit Economic Suicide (EIR)
Conference Transcript: India: Ramtanu Maitra: The Alliance of India-Russia-China
Strategy: China, Russia Respond to Anglo-American War Threat (EIR)
Conference Transcript: Michael Billington: Leibniz, LaRouche, and the U.S. Link with China, Russia. Schiller Institute Conference, San Francisco, June 29, 2013
Conference Greeting: Russian Letters of Support (Schiller Institute: After Thirty Years: The Need for the Principle of the SDI Today!)
2012
Strategy: Lyndon LaRouche's Reply to Question from Russia On the Immediate Danger of Thermonuclear War
Presentations to the Second International Conference on Fundamental Questions of Sustained Development in the System of Nature-Society-Man Dubna University, Moscow (Videos)
Music Video: Unique Quartet from Russia Plays Bach
Strategy: Toward Collaboration in The Defense of Mankind (EIR)
Strategy: It’s Not Just Words: Russian, U.S. Militaries in Action
Russian Weekly Zavtra Congratulates LaRouche
Lyndon LaRouche: LaRouche’s Jubilee Celebrated In Russia, Eurasia (PDF)
Press Release: Russians Offer U.S.A. Cooperation in the Arctic
Bankrupt British Empire Keeps Pushing To Overthrow Putin
LaRouche Show: Economics for the Future: Breaking the Ice on Arctic Development
2011
Press Release: Behind the Targeting of Hillary Clinton: Obama, Gorbachev and Susan Rice
Press Release: Was It Hillary's Error? by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
LaRouche and LPAC Basement Address Conference at Russian Foreign Ministry University
Russian Conference Hears LaRouche, Calls for Global Glass-Steagall
LaRouche Video Keynotes Conference at Russia's Dubna University
LaRouche: Forge a U.S.-Russia-China Agreement for Global Recovery
Are Earthquakes Foreseeable? (Video of Conference Presentation by Professor Sergey Pulinets, Moscow)
LaRouche’s “Basement Team” Scientists Address Russian-Ukrainian Conference in Crimea
2010
A Russian Dialogue With LaRouche & Friends: The Cultural Imperative of Russian-American Cooperation
Conference Presentation: Developing Siberia’s Raw Materials: An Adventure for the 21st Century
Address to Russian University Conference on "The Financial Crisis and Sustainable Development"
LaRouche Sends Greeting To Moscow-Area University Conference
December 2009
Russian Railways Chief Puts World Rail Network on the Agenda
SHIFT TO THE PACIFIC: The Historic Mission of the United States
November 2009
October 2009
A Four-Power Agreement Can Create a New World Credit System Keynote address at Rhodes "Dialog of Civilizations" Conference by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
‘Russia-China Accord Can Be the Start Of a World Credit System’ Helga Zepp-LaRouche, October 29 Webcast in Berlin
New Alliances for a New World System by Helga Zepp-LaRouche
November 2008
LaRouche's New Bretton Woods is at top of the news in Russia
August 2008
LaRouche Show: “LaRouche Warns of British Moves for a Cuban Missile Crisis in Reverse.”
November 2007
LaRouche on the Bolshevik Revolution
September 2007
Schiller Institute Conference: The Eurasian Land-Bridge Becomes A Reality!
May 2007
LaRouche Returns To Russia:
Russian Academy Of Sciences Event Honors Stanislaw M. Menshikov
LaRouche Speech on Prof Menshikov's 80th Birthday
Helga Zepp LaRouche: The EU-Russia Summit Versus LaRouche's Mission to Moscow
Popular Russian Web Site Interviews LaRouche Press Release (click or scroll down)
KM.ru: An Interview of Physical Economist LaRouche's Historical Moscow Visit
LaRouche Meets With Russian "Anti-Globalist Resistance" Leaders (click or scroll down)
April 2007
Bering Strait Conference in Moscow Hears From LaRouche and Gov. Hickel On War Avoidance Through Economic Development
EIR Releases English Translation of "The Anatomy of Russian Capitalism"
March 2007
LaRouche Calls for Russia-China-India-USA Cooperation on Infrastructure Projects
February, 2007
Andropov's Blunder Still Haunts the Earth (from EIR)
SDI Revisited: In Defense of Strategy (from EIR)
January, 2007
LaRouche: The Old Economics Is Dead, the New Economics Must Begin (from EIR)
January 2004 -2006
Please visit LaRouche Dialogues Pages and EIR Magazine
December, 2003
LaRouche Tells U.S.- Cooperate With Russia (Press Release, 12/15/03, below )
Russian Duma Election Analysis (from EIR)
September, 2003
Dr.Tennenbaum Addresses Third Eurasian Conference on Transport in St. Petersburg
(below)
LaRouche Addresses the 14th Conference on China, Chinese Civilization and the World: Past, Present and Future, whose main subject was: "China in the 21st CenturyChances and Challenges of Globalization."
August, 2003
The Murder of a Legend: Who Was Grigori Bondarevsky?
May, 2003
Interview with in Russian Online Periodical Polyarnaya Zveda ("The Pole Star")
March 2003
European Schiller Institute Conference
May 30-June 1, 2002
Russian Symposium Honors Pobisk Kuznetsov,
Lyndon LaRouche Brief Remarks to Symposium
2002
See Conferences Page for More in 2002
December, 2001
Helga Zepp-LaRouche: A New Approach for a Dialogue of Civilizations , Moscow,
Tennebaum on Pobisk Georgiyevich Kuznetsov: A Modern Day Leonardo, 12/14/01
Article on Lyndon LaRouche's Four-day Visit to Moscow, Week of Dec. 10
LaRouche's Speech to Forum in Memory of Russian Scientist PG Kuznetsov, 12/14/01
LaRouche address to Central Mathematical Economics Institute (CEMI) 12/15/01
LaRouche Interview in "Russian Currency Speculator" Magazine
November 2001
Schiller Institute/Vernadsky Museum Conference in Moscow,
LaRouche Paper on "The Spirit of Russian Science" (November, 2001)
Color Poster Announcing the Vernadsky Conference
October 30, 2001
LaRouche Interview In "Russian Entrepreneur" Magazine
June 29, 2001
Duma Testimony:
Testimony of Lyndon LaRouche
Dr. Sergei Glazyev
Testimony of Helga Zepp LaRouche
Testimony of Dr. Tatyana Koryagina,
Academician Dmitri Lvov
Dr. Jonathan Tennenbaum
Sen. Ivo Tarolli
H.E. Datuk Yahya Baba
June 2001
LaRouche at Lebedev Institute,
April, 2001
The Vernadsky Strategy
March 3, 2001
SDI Under Reconsideration: War as Peace By Other Means
Dec. 2000
The US Strategic Interest in Russia
Fall, 2000
In Memory of Taras Muranivsky
1990's Articles:
Letter to a Russian Friend--Russia's Relation To Universal History- 1996
Russia is Eurasia's Keystone Economy, March 1998
Key Measures for a Transition To Economic Growth in Russia, March 1998
For Related Articles, See:
LaRouche Dialogues Since Sept. 11, 2001
Lyndon and Helga LaRouche Dialogues in 2003
Strategic Studies Page
Link to EIR's Site in Russian
KM.ru Video
Popular Russian Web Site
Interviews LaRouche
May 2007
May 17, 2007 (EIRNS)--"American Economic Guru Forecasts Crisis in USA" is the headline over an interview (Russian language version) with Lyndon LaRouche, posted on the widely read Russian web portal KM.ru today. LaRouche was interviewed in Moscow May 15 by correspondent Tamara Miodeshevsky, and an audio-video version is expected to appear on the site soon.
The interview includes essential points that LaRouche made in his several interviews and other discussions during a three-day visit to Moscow this week. Among those are the fact that the collapse of the dollar, as the world's reserve currency, will hit other countries hard, including major powers such as China, India, and Russia. As possible detonators of the explosion of the dollar-denominated bubble, LaRouche named a possible atack on Iran, and also Al Gore's fanatical campaign around "global warming."
In these circumstances, LaRouche told KM.ru, "The USA must propose to, first and foremost, Russia, China, and India to reach agreement immediately on the creation of a new monetary system." He added, "Our approach, and our hopes, are linked, among other things, with Russian President Vladimir Putin's statements about Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his traditions."
(Note: These quotations are translated from the Russian published version. Link to the transcript of the English original above. )
Interview in Russian: www.km.ru
Link to a video segment of the interview: Video
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LaRouche Meets With Russian
"Anti-Globalist Resistance" Leaders
May 2007
MOSCOW, May 16 (EIRNS)--The press service of the Anti-Globalist Resistance Group in Russia today posted the following report on its web site, www.anti-glob.ru . This article was translated from Russian by EIRNew Service.]
"LaRouche Thinks It Is Possible To Save The World"
On May 14 representatives of the Anti-Globalist Resistance met with the well-known American economist and philosopher Lyndon LaRouche and his wife, the writer Helga Zepp LaRouche, who are making a short visit to Moscow.
Lyndon LaRouche briefed them on his vision of history, which, since the 12th Century in Europe has been largely under the influence, if not the control, of banks. First it was the Venetian bankers, who subsequently resettled in Holland and established banks there, bringing Britain into their sphere as well. Then this powerful network, lightly masked as the British and Dutch monarchies, ran Europe and extended their influence, later, into the USA, intervening in world events through its agents (among whom were many figures of the French Revolution, in LaRouche's view).
Today, the world is in a very unstable situation. The world financial system is on the brink of collapse. The USA is unable to function as hegemon. The leading personalities in the government are members of the Baby-Boomer generation, brought up in a state of egoism, and divorced from tradition, by means of deliberate schemes using television and mass culture. They are unable to think about the future. But there is hope, that youth will come to take their place, and for these youth the future will again mean something.
The current situation is Europe is becoming increasingly ominous. Countries like Britain, Germany, and Belgium, which have just had elections, are becoming less and less capable of making decisions independently. As for France, where the newly elected President Nicolas Sarkozy has openly rejected the independent French policy, founded by De Gaulle, it is already clear that by doing this, he has split the nation.
LaRouche sees the rejection of monetarism as a way to overcome the crisis, along with adoption of a system of government credits to the "real economy" (continuing the ideas of F.D. Roosevelt, who overcame the Great Depression with such an approach). This requires united efforts by the USA, Russia, China, and India, which would subsequently be joined by other countries.
In conclusion, Mr. LaRouche advised not to lose hope, saying, "The world can be saved--but can we do it?"
EIR Releases Stanislav Menshikov's
`The Anatomy of Russian Capitalism'
March 2007
March 23, 2007EIR News Service announced the publication of The Anatomy of Russian Capitalism, by Professor Stanislav M. Menshikov. Translated from the Russian by Rachel Douglas, the book is an authoritative study of the Russian economy during the first 15 years after the break-up of the Soviet Union. The Preface, by EIR founder and contributing editor Lyndon LaRouche, titled, "Russia's Next Step," poses the need for U.S. policy-makers to study and grasp the "disease" presented in this book, since it represents "an economic global pandemic which we must all join to defeat."
Professor Menshikov, author of in-depth studies of the international and Russian economies, became famous as one of the Soviet Union's top experts on the United States. In The Anatomy of Russian Capitalism, he turns his attention to Russia in the post-Soviet period. Here is the story of the new Russian oligarchs: who they are, and how they amassed their fabulous fortunes during the chaotic 1990s. Does the emerging Kremlin financial industrial group of President Vladimir Putin's second term represent a shift? The author believes that the Russian economy has fallen into a trap, from which the only escape route leads through a fundamental break with the oligarchical system.
Comments printed on the book's back cover testify to the stature of its author. "Stanislav Menshikov has been our most astute observer of the Russian economy for many years," says Prof. James Galbraith of the University of Texas at Austin. "He saw that communism needed reform a generation ago, when it might have worked. He recognized the reforms after communism for the disaster they were. Now he gives a comprehensive account of the state of capitalism in today's Russia."
The Scottish economist Angus Maddison, who teaches at the Universities of Groningen (The Netherlands) and Brisbane (Australia), points out, "The Anatomy of Russian Capitalism is the latest of many books by Stanislav Menshikov, and the fifth to be translated into English. He is the most cosmopolitan of Russian economists, with an insider view of the old style command economy and the problems of transition. He has a comparative perspective gained by nearly fifty years scrutinizing the performance of Western capitalist economies."
LaRouche, in his Preface, which is published in full in this issue of EIR, urges Americans to pay attention to this book: "It is time to learn the lessons of Professor Menshikov's account, as they bear on the decisions which must be made, as we enter what threatens to become the worst economic collapse the world will have experienced, since a period of horrifying religious warfare was ended by the crucial adoption of the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia. The methods accumulated during looting of the former Soviet Union and associated Comecon nations, express the acquired habits that now threaten the ruin of the world as a whole, unless the adducible lesson of this experience of recent decades, described in this book, is learned and applied."
`Bolshevism in Reverse'
Professor Menshikov analyzes the sudden appearance of private enterprise in Russia after 1991 as "Bolshevism in reverse." He writes, "The post-Soviet Russian reformers' blueprint followed Western neoclassical dogma, according to which, to restructure socialism into capitalism, it should suffice merely to replace state-owned property with private property, and the planned economy with the free play of market forces. In reality, this was Lenin in reverse," since it was only formally that socialism had prepared the ground for capitalism, whereas in practice it had made this task extremely difficult, costing enormous social sacrifices in the form of an acute deterioration of living conditions for the majority of the population."
Chapters of The Anatomy of Russian Capitalism examine that difficult process from different standpoints: economic theory, the composition of privately owned capital in Russia, the state sector, the structure of production and income distribution, economic policy, and Russia's relationship with the globalized economy. The English edition is substantially updated from the Russian book, published in 2004, allowing a comparison of two basic periods: from the end of the Soviet Union until the Russian government bond default of August 1998, and the attempts at relaunching economic growth in 1999-2006 under Putin's administration.
Third Eurasian Conference
on Transport in St. Petersburg
September, 2003
The Third Eurasian Conference on Transport, latest in a series that has become crucial for the promotion of continental development corridors, opened September 12, 2003, in St. Petersburg, Russia. High-ranking representatives of 40 countries are present, among them: Iranian Minister of Roads and Transport, Ahmad Khorram; the Russian Ministers of Railroads, Gennadi Faddeyev, and Transport, Sergei Frank, as well as Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Yakovlev; high-ranking representatives of the European Commission and of international shipping organizations; and the secretary of the European Transport Ministers. All of them gave speeches. Kazakstan and Belarus were granted membership in the North-South corridor, which was initiated by Russian, Iran and India. Sergei Frank reported to the meeting on a decision taken days earlier by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, to coordinate transportation projects in border regions among its member countriesin the heart of Eurasia.
LaRouche Tells U.S. To Seize The Opportunity
To Cooperate With Russia
December 15, 2003
Dec. 15--In response to a question about the nature of the political shift in Russia, following the recent Duma elections, Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche asserted that the elections show that Russian patriots have acted to get their country back, from the international looters associated with the likes of Al Gore and the IMF. "The day of the oligarchs is gone," he said.
LaRouche then analyzed the policy directions of the Putin Administration, and told the audience:
“Don't sit back and say, what are they going to do? Predict what they're going to do? No. Why don't you take a hand in determining what they're going to do? Why don't you do the thing, knowing you have the options, when they're offering something which is in our interest, why not accept it? And that's the way to look at it.''
LaRouche's analysis of the current Russian policy, as demonstrated in the victory of his friend Sergei Glazyev, and his Rodina Party, in the elections, was this:
"Russian policy under Putin has three directions to it. One, cooperation if possible with the United States. This is a Russian instinct. Once the Soviet Union was a power, together with the United States. If the two former great powers can get together, maybe the rest of the world will have a change. Policy number two is close cooperation with Western Europe, especially Germany, France and so forth, in the development of Eurasia. The China policy, the India policy. That's clear. Third policy: if Cheney remains in power, or what he represents remains in power in the United States, then Russia will be prepared for thermonuclear war with the United States. Three policies. Now we in the United States have to decide which we want. Do we want nuclear war, fighting against a whole group of nations, including Russia with some very sophisticated weapons, China, India and some other countries? Do we want, several years down the line, such a war? If we don't, what do we do? We talk to the Russian government on those terms."
"If you simply tell the Russian government, assure them that I'm going to be the next president, we won't have a problem. It's a simple fact. Why? Because my relationship with this is, I was recognized as a genius by leading circles in Russia because of my work in economics, on what is called the science of physical economy, and they recognize that I have been right, where the Soviets had been wrong. And so a whole section of the scientific academies welcomed me.
"For example, in 1996, I was invited to a meeting in Moscow with a group of celebrities of the Russian system. It was a public meeting, it was videotaped at that time, and the purpose of it was to signal to President Clinton that what I was offering as a policy of cooperation with Russia and so forth, was something they were offering to the United States, using me as a figure who represents my own policy, and they were simply endorsing what I'm saying as something they're interested in. And chiefly because of Gore and Gore's influence, things came against me and against that policy approach. Other things developed in the same period. So we lost it.
"But that's still the same thing. I was invited by Glazyev when he was Chairman of the Economics Committee of the Russian Duma, to give a presentation to the Duma. This was a major event. I laid out there, and in other meetings we had in Europe and elsewhere, laid out my policy, and that policy is the direction in which he's going, his circles are going, which is the direction I propose. That's one example of a number from around the world, of what happens if I'm president, and this is the policy which I tried to, shall we say, persuade people around the Clinton administration to adopt. It's the right policy today. ...
"What's going on, now, between the Duma elections, there will be a change in the composition of Russian politics. It's already started. The day of the oligarchs is gone. And that's what these guys are screaming about. They want to steal it. Now they're going to a second phase in March, when the presidential elections occur in Russia, in which Putin will be running for reelection. It looks as if he might make it, the way things are right now. That means that, by the end of March, the world situation will change, for many reasons, including the present financial crisis onrushing. It will always change because the Russian process of change of direction of government, away from the day of the oligarch, will have been completed, and you will now see a new Russia, with new commitments and new orders, and the ideas which Glazyev represents, and where I have a lot of agreement with him, will be the ideas coming from there.
"The policy of Russia will be, under those conditions, cooperation with Western Europe, based on a relationship to Germany and France, in particular; cooperation relations between Western Europe, China, India, Korea and Japan and so forth, across Eurasia. This is the Eurasian development orientation. That will be the policy of Russia, as of March of this year. And that's my policy. Why not? I've been pushing it long enough."