
Why is the establishment so afraid of Donald Trump?
- East And West
- 27 Oct 2016
- Trump
- Trumponomics
- TrumpRevolution
Donald Trump, for the simple fact of being a large business owner and a billionaire, should have been a darling of capital and global plutocrats
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Globalism is just another word for colonialism
- East And West
- 21 Oct 2016
- Clinton
- Globalisation
- Globalism
- Hillary
There was a time, not many years ago, when globalization was something that everybody loved to hate.
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What the West has to offer to the Syrian people is more death, brutality and destruction
- East And West
- 19 Oct 2016
- Syria
It has been well documented and disseminated by the operators of the Western mass media outlets that the Russians “cynically” vetoed the joint French and Spanish resolution for a peace plan for Aleppo
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Poland’s neoliberal miracle?
- East And West
- 10 Oct 2016
- Poland
- PolandGDP
- Polska
- PolskaPKB
Economists love Poland. The history of Poland since its “liberation from the Communist yoke” is often used as the case in point to show that, yes, neoliberalism works.
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In Belarus a Maidan is only waiting to happen
- East And West
- 5 Oct 2016
- #Maidan
- #MaidanBelarus
- #RevolutionBelarus
My worries about an inevitable Maidan in Belarus proved to be exaggerated and unfounded last year
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Former CIA agent in Donetsk: “MH17 was not downed by a BUK”
- East And West
- 30 Sep 2016
- #BUK
- #DNR
- #Donbass
- #DonbassWar
- #Donetsk
- #MalaysiaAirlines
- #MH17
East&West: Mister Simpson, how have you ended up in Donetsk? Have you come here from the US? David Simpson: 25 years ago I was a CIA agent in Riga, Latvia.
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Dialogue between a patriot and an appeaser
- East And West
- 27 Sep 2016
Appeaser: These symbols look really strange … Patriot: You should educate yourself about the symbols of Azov before so easily falling for Russian propaganda. They have nothing to do with Nazism.
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A (Confused) History of the Ukrainian Language
- East And West
- 26 Sep 2016
The Ukrainian language is
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Either side of Trump’s wall
- East And West
- 24 Sep 2016
- MexicoWall
- TrumpWall
- Wall
There is a proverb in China: “He who has not been to the wall is not a hero”. In contrast to the Western definition of hero, the protagonist within this saying is neither a superman or some otherworldly mystical being
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Open Germany is a dead-end
- East And West
- 21 Sep 2016
- #OffenesDeutschland
- #OpenGermany
We live in a thriving democracy. We enjoy the benefits of an open and tolerant society, our system of government is transparent. The highest positions and the highest honors are accessible to those who display enough merit
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Getting lost on holiday in Bulgaria: Bulgarian-Russian false friends
- East And West
- 19 Sep 2016
Actually the Bulgarian language should not pose too many problems to those who already master Russian. In a way, it looks like a simplified version of Russian
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Byron in Armenia – or why learning a foreign language does not have to mean being a language nerd
- East And West
- 18 Sep 2016
- Languages
I remember I used to be very impressed when people told me they learned Hebrew or Chinese. I thought if they learned something so difficult and “unusual”
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ألمانيا ليست جنة
- East And West
- 16 Sep 2016
تمت ترجمة هذه المقالة تلقائيًا. يرجى الاعتذار لنا عن أي خطأ في ألمانيا ، لا يبدو أي شخص قلقًا بشأن مشكلة الهجرة. يُعتبر التعبير عن أدنى قدر من القلق بشأن إمكانية دمج العديد من الشباب من ثقافة مختلفة تمامًا علامة على التخلف الذي لا لبس فيه ، وأوجه القصور العقلي الخطيرة المحتملة والميل السياسي الخطير […]
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Why I, a life-long Democrat, will vote for Donald Trump
- East And West
- 14 Sep 2016
This is a guest contribution for East&West by one of our American readers. I have always been a man of the left. I have a solid working class background, so since I was young, going with the party of the people against the party of the rich
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5 советов как выучить иностранный язык
- East And West
- 13 Sep 2016
Есть немного интеллектуальных удовольствий, сравнимых c чтением на иностранном языке и осознанием того, что вы понимаете гораздо больше, чем ожидали.
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How to write about Russia
- East And West
- 12 Sep 2016
Some say being a journalist in Russia is an infernal job. You are lucky if you escape alive. Indeed, Russia may well be one of the most difficult places on earth
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10 reasons why YOU SHOULD study Russian
- East And West
- 7 Sep 2016
Our last piece “10 damn good reasons why you should NOT study French”, judging from the reactions online, was not well received. The PC thought police, which 24/7 patrols the dangerous dark corners of the net
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10 damn good reasons NOT to study French
- East And West
- 5 Sep 2016
After the incredible popularity (for about 17 minutes everybody on the internet seemed to be talking just about this) that our recent piece “8 reasons NOT to study German” gave us, we decided to double down on it.
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The Beauty and the Beast: Russian-Polish false friends
- East And West
- 2 Sep 2016
Russian and Polish, both Slavic languages, share a lot of vocabulary and they are indeed pretty similar, althought they are not really mutually intelligible. There are some words that are particularly tricky, however.
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Does the future of language learning belong to language apps?
- East And West
- 1 Sep 2016
Suddenly it looked like nobody was studying anymore languages the way old bores like me used to. No more books, no more writing, no more real classes,
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