By Slava Tsukerman Last week Russia experienced one of the largest media scandals in Russian history. No economic or political news in several years triggered such emotional reaction from both media and general public. Surprisingly, the scandal was triggered not by political news, but by the results of children singing competition on TV. Yet unexpectedly […]
Category: Tsukerman on Russia
Russian Media Lauds New Russian Weapons Able to Annihilate USA
By Slava Tsukerman Lately, several articles about the superiority of Russian weapons appeared in the Russian press. The articles were widely reprinted by dozens of Russian publications. On January 28, 2019, Zvezda, Russian weekly of the Ministry of Defense, published the article of the military expert Alexey Leonkov entitled “Why attempts to cast doubt on […]
How Russians Celebrate New Years
By Slava Tsukerman After the Communist Revolution in 1917, the celebration of New Year and religious holidays were canceled in Russia. New Year’s revival at the state level began only at the end of 1930s, but still remained a working day. After the suffering of Russian people in WWII, Stalin needed to raise morale. By […]
Russian Economic Projection for 2019
By Slava Tsukerman Russian media presents a lot of contradictory prognoses for the future of the Russian economy. On one hand, TV and the most popular official publications keep presenting to public messages of the type below, published by the site vesifinance.ru: “President Vladimir Putin positively assessed the state of the Russian economy, the Kremlin […]
Can Russia collapse the same way as USSR?
By Slava Tsukerman On December 10 Russian website www.ridus.ru published an article entitled: Kudrin: Russia can expect the fate of the USSR Alexei Kudrin, current head of the Audit Chamber and Minister of Finance from May 2000 to September 2011, is one of those who are equally admired by Putin and his opposition. The article starts with the […]
Russians Enticed to Come to the USA to Give Birth
By Slava Tsukerman During an interview with the political website Axios, the US president Donald Trump said he would sign an executive order ending so-called birthright citizenship, which was understood by most people as included in the 14th amendment to the US constitution 150 years ago. Unexpectedly this Trump’s statement triggered passionate discussion in Russian […]
Effect of American Sanctions on Future Russian Economy
By Slava Tsukerman New U.S. sanctions against Russia over a nerve agent attack in Britain have come into effect. The sanctions will terminate some financial assistance and arms sales to Russia, as well as deny the country credit and prohibit the export of security-sensitive goods and technology. It is natural that top authorities on Russian economy […]
TSUKERMAN: The war mood of the Russian media today
“One hundred aircraft took to the air by the order of Russian Aerospace Force” September 27, 2018. By Slava Tsukerman Lately, the Russian media has been full of publications creating the feeling that the 3rd World War is going to start at any moment. Here are the titles of some articles published this week by the […]
TSUKERMAN: Russia Enters Moon Tourism Race
by Slava Tsukerman With its proud coverage, Russian media maintain the spirit of the cosmic races between USA and Russia. On September 18, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced on Twitter the upcoming private flight of a Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa around the moon on SpaceX’s new Big Falcon Rocket. Maezawa plans to take between six and […]
TSUKERMAN: Russia Fears Climatic “Apocalypse”
By Slava Tsukerman On the night of September 5, 2018, an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 occurred in the South of the Ural Mountains in Russia. There were no casualties. Nevertheless, more than ten public facilities were damaged. Among them were kindergartens, regular schools, as well as an industrial technical school. The power of […]
TSUKERMAN: Lithuanian “Mission Siberia”
By Slava Tsukerman The Lithuanian youth project “Mission Siberia” was launched in 2006. Its main goal is to let young Lithuanians to visit places where Lithuanians were imprisoned into GULAG camps or were exiled during Stalin’s repressions. After the annexation of the Baltic republics to the USSR in June 1940, NKVD officers started to […]
TSUKERMAN: The Future of Mother Volga
By Slava Tsukerman Wikipedia states: “The Volga is the longest river in Europe. It is also Europe’s largest river in terms of discharge and drainage basin. The river flows through central Russia and into the Caspian Sea, and is widely regarded as the national river of Russia. “Eleven of the twenty largest cities of Russia, including the capital, Moscow, are located in the Volga’s drainage basin. Some […]
TSUKERMAN: War of the Sexes triggered by the World Cup in Russia
By Slava Tsukerman It is understandable that the World Cup has been the main topic in the Russian media. Unexpectedly one of the side issues attracted a special attention of the Russian Internet and press. Some refer to it as: “The war of sexes”. It started on the Internet. Some Russian male patriots got very […]
TSUKERMAN: The wealth of Russia is shipped abroad
By Slava Tsukerman This month the Central Bank of Russia published information showing that the earnings from Russian businesses and of the richest citizens continue to flow abroad through the purchase of stakes in companies and the issuance of loans. Last year 2.5 trillion rubles, $42 billion, flowed from Russia into offshore markets. This is […]