Friday, May 6, 2011

Concepts Ideology and the Rule of Law Russian 2011


Liberalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Liberalism (from the Latin liberalis, "of freedom") is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but most liberals support such fundamental ideas as constitutions, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights, capitalism, free trade, and the freedom of religion. These ideas are widely accepted, even by political groups that do not openly profess a liberal ideological orientation. Liberalism encompasses several intellectual trends and traditions, but the dominant variants are classical liberalism, which became popular in the eighteenth century, and social liberalism, which became popular in the twentieth century. --- READ MORE

How Russia’s liberalism might be revived
Russian liberalism is not just in crisis, politically speaking it has ceased to exist. It is not represented in the parliament, it has disappeared as a focus of public debates, even among intellectuals, and its claims to be a credible and politically attractive ideology now seem vain if not preposterous. I use the term “Russian liberalism” as an umbrella concept embracing the political practices and agencies, both of the neoliberal and social liberal types, which identified the Russian “exit from Communism” with the establishment of the rule of law, political and ideological pluralism, the market economy and “openness to the West”, if not its imitation. --- READ MORE

The resurgence of radical conservatism in Russia
The focus of this lecture is the concept of “sovereign democracy”, the brain-child of Vladislav Yuryevich Surkov, (b.1964), First Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of Russia, and the acknowledged ideologist of the regime [1]. In 2006 the collection “Suverenitet (Sovereignty)” appeared, edited by the “young conservative” Nikita Garadja. This contained articles by Putin, Medevedev and Surkov. --- READ MORE

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