Cultural and Political Discussion

The forthcoming election of president in Russia scheduled for March 4, 2012 is already illegitimate. Why? Candidates from parliamentary parties and self-nominee candidates are set in unequal conditions in violation of Constitution. If you are a self-nominee you are to collect 2 million signatures of votes in you support, in......20 days! That is the price of registration you as a candidate. Sounds unrealistic, and it is actually so! That is how unwanted candidates are being sorted out from the election. Or maybe not all of them, if you are an oligarch, like Michael Prokhorov, and have enough money to fabricate those signatures, you are welcome to continue in the election race.

Why do you think it is so hard to burst into to the ranks of elite? You may think they guard so hard the purity of their family bloodlines only out of the idea of preserving the status of their ancestors. It already became a tradition over the centuries. Does it mean people outside of their status are not considered worthy anymore? It all has much deeper reasons than you ever thought of.

Kevin Rudd, Australian PM, to make formal apology to Aboriginals.

I don't think this article says anything about a compensation package, but this is at least SOME step in a good direction after all last year's crap.


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anthropologist

Hallo, I'm new to that community and want to ask you for help.
I'm a Russian who studies American culture.
I'm working on my postgrad thesis in lingvoculturology and I'm asking you for help.

IF YOU ARE FROM THE USA AND YOU ARE A NATIVE SPEAKER, please help me (it's terribly difficult to find an American here in Russia and make him/her answer the
questions :))).

Please, give a detailed example – like a scene from a movie, a book or from life - of a situation when a person is having fun. Give your AGE, please.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP!

Could anybody suggest online resources on the theme of Philosophy of war? thanx

And what do you think the Philosophy of war is ?

could anybody suggest any links in the net about political philosophy of war?
thanks!

Bush commuted Libby's sentence: Thoughts? How do you think remaining Bush and/or GOP supporters will respond? Will it lead to a full pardon? Personally, my bet is that he did it for the children, although that bet is entirely based on shameless self-promotion.

Today's post on differenceblog discusses recent research on hair whorl direction and sexual orientation, as reported in today's edition of New York Magazine. Hair whorls (which tend to appear mostly in white men) have been studied since the 1970's as a possible indicator of brain development. Some recent studies have suggested that gay men are more likely than their straight counterparts to have a counter clockwise whorl. Implications and weaknesses of this research are discussed. Comments, as always, are welcomed.

differenceblog is a daily feature on the study of gender differences.

Are there students who study political science in the USA now?