Putin’s Turn To East Boosts Demand For Chinese Language Expertise And Fears Of China – Analysis
In Soviet times, Russians joked that the optimists were learning English, the pessimists Chinese, and the realists Kalashnikov...
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Vladimir Borisovitch Pastukhov is a Russian political scientist, lawyer (advocate) and honorary senior research associate of the University College London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies. He is an author of the so-called "constitution by concepts", which is a written code of unwritten rules that define the real substance of life in Russia.
In Soviet times, Russians joked that the optimists were learning English, the pessimists Chinese, and the realists Kalashnikov...