Interview with Sir Malcolm Rifkind: on Trump and trumpism, US-Russia and UK-Russia relations, and on Litvinenko case

автор: ValeryMorozov Опубликовано 2017/04/01

To the readers,

Here and now, I start my new project: a series of interviews with prominent politicians, businessmen, scholars and public figures on different important problems in international relations, new developments in the world economic and finance system, on technological innovations and their effect on people and society, on the relations between Russia, the West and emerging new global powers, and other interesting subjects.

The first interview is with Sir Malcolm Rifkind, a British politician who served in various roles, including as Defenсe Secretary (1992–1995) and Foreign Secretary (1995–1997). In the UK, he is considered to be the best British Foreign Secretary of all times, and that means much…

He brought Mikhail Gorbachev to London to meet Margaret Thatcher. As a result of that meeting, the West decided that it was “possible to deal with Gorbachev”… The rest we know…

Photo: Mikhail Gorbachev and Margaret Thatcher.
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Интервью с Сэром Малкольмом Рифкиндом: О Трампе и трампизме, отношениях США-РФ, Британия-РФ и о деле Литвиненко

автор: ValeryMorozov Опубликовано 2017/04/01

К читателям

Начать я хочу с извинения перед читателями за долгое молчание. Как всегда, слишком закрутился и погряз в делах.

Тут и строительство дома в Гилдфорде, графство Сарри, о котором я давно обещал и никак не могу начать рассказ (строительство заканчиваю в мае, сразу выставляю его на продажу и точно начну писать эту довольно забавную и поучительную историю), и участие в проекте мирного урегулирования вокруг Украины…

По Украине есть свои сложности. По некоторым причинам я сейчас не могу активно путешествовать, и британские коллеги сейчас ездят в Киев без меня, но участвовать в их подготовке мне приходится. В частности, писать для них аналитические записки по разным вопросам украинской действительности, а там все развивалось и развивается очень активно. То блокаду сепаратистам объявят такую, что никто понять в Европе не может, что этой блокадой достигнуть пытались: или себе жизнь усложнить, или только для Порошенко, или Европе и МВФ головной боли прибавить, или Донбасс отрезать от себя окончательно, или Ахметова пограбить, или так… по пьянке или болезни чего надумали?
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Russian View on Trump and Brexit, part 3.1

автор: ValeryMorozov Опубликовано 2017/01/03

Witness of History

In the Academy, my favorite professor was Eugene Petrovich Sitkovskiy. He was one of the best specialists in the Soviet Union on the German philosopher Georg Hegel and the dialectics. However, my whole group looked forward to attend his lectures not because of his knowledge of Hegel, but to listen to his stories.

–         Evgeniy Petrovich, please, tell us about Stalin or Bukharin, – one of us used to ask him in the beginning of a lecture, as soon as Sitkovskiy sat down at his table. – We will read about Hegel ourselves.

Sitkovskiy had unique life experience, he personally knew Lenin, Bogdanov, Stalin and other leaders of the Soviet past. The History spoke to us through Sitkovskiy.

 

 

 

 

E.P.Sitkovskiy, in 1980-s

–         Morozov, are you planning to write your thesis on Bogdanov? – he asked me after the first lecture.
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Russian View on Trump and Brexit, part 3

автор: ValeryMorozov Опубликовано 2016/12/23

The offers I couldn’t refuse

In 1988, I was invited to the Communist Party Committee of the “Novosti” Press Agency (APN), where I was told, that “there is a decision” to give me recommendation to the postgraduate studies in the Academy of Social Sciences of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

–         What is your decision? – the Secretary of the Committee asked me.

–         Thank you. I agree.

–         Fine. Please, inform the Chief Editor of your Department.

When I entered the room of Nikolay Fedin, the Chief Editor of the Asian Department of APN and told him about the offer I had just received, he was surprised.

–         What did you tell them? – he asked me.

–         I agreed.

–         Are you crazy? You will lose three years.  What they can teach you there?!
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Russian View on Trump and Brexit, part 2

автор: ValeryMorozov Опубликовано 2016/12/16

Part 2

About Physics, Lyrics and Politics

Introduction

In the first article of this series, I analyzed the circumstances and the events, which had led to the arrest of Aleksey Ulyukaev, the Russian Minister for economic development. The story of the arrest is a vivid example of the importance of the relations and interconnections in the modern World.

The Russian liberals, who dominated in Russian economy for the last 25 years and its political life from 1991 to at least 2008, suddenly found themselves threatened by the possibility of change in the relationship between the US and the Russian Presidents. More, the change in the relations between the two Presidents threatens the future of the elites in the USA and the Western European countries.

Actually, before writing the first part in English, I had written the article about the arrest of Ulyukaev for the Russian readers.
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