Kagarlitsky dealt with those "statistics" before and showed how they were based on nonsense and we discussed them on the board.
You can lead a horse to water...
Heh Heh! to Ken's remark about my chest.
Remember Boris K is a professor of sociology so of course he studies ideologies - as indeed do all of us around here by the way - we're all looking for an alternative to the Capitalist system - of course. Mine is Participatory Economics (Parecon) by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel.
That doesn't inevitably interfere with one's judgment!
The title of the piece he's writing is specifically about Russia - not Ukraine - just in answer to Ken's initial point that he Boris K doesn't know anything about Ukraine - which he has talked about on other occasions.
Once again he's a very sophisticated thinker and a very interesting source from among the Russian dissenters. There's no need to shoot him down each time.