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India’s new untouchables: Marx, Engels

April 18, 2012 Rakesh Krishnan Simha, specially for RIR
A quarter century after the Russians gave communism the boot, the Indian state of Paschim Banga has decided to purge Bolshevism from school history books. But a billion Indians sill are fed other varieties of phony history

Russia ranks as 76th happiest country in world

April 5, 2012 RIA Novosti
Russian ranks as the 76th happiest country in an international list of some 150 countries, according the World Happiness Report, released this week, by the Earth Institute of Columbia University.

What went wrong for gays in India?

March 19, 2012 Rakesh Krishnan Simha
Except under the British, gays have never been persecuted in India so why the latent homophobia?

Cars instead of sausage

March 2, 2012 Aleksandra Ponomareva, Moskovskiye Novosti
Rosstat studies the dynamics of living standards in Russia over the last two decades

Putin’s new campaign article focuses on social policies

February 13, 2012 Natalya Kovalenko, The Voice of Russia
Another campaign article written by Russia`s Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin was released in Komsomolskaya Pravda daily on Monday. This time the article focuses on social policies.

Five things we never thanked the Soviet Union for

December 22, 2011 Aanchal Anand
Women’s right to vote and weekends are just a couple of things that we owe the USSR

Social networks: pressure or routine control?

December 22, 2011 Pavel Koshkin, specially for RIR
Will more protests cause more problems for Russia’s social networks?

Census: Population shrank 2.3 million

December 21, 2011 The Moscow TImes
Russia has slipped one place in the rating of the world's biggest countries by population and now ranks eighth with 142.8 million inhabitants, the State Statistics Service said.