Moscow is one booming city -- Luzhkov is certainly doing something right! (Of course this book, like the other billion or so Medvedev has written since 1991, will probably never be translated into English.)
Roy Medvedev, a former dissident, is convinced that Moscow's municipal complex is absolutely unique and that the "Moscow model" effectively saved Russia from disintegration and disaster in the 1990s Moscow Mayor through the Eyes of a Historian By Anna Rudnitskaya The Moscow News Why did the Moscow mayor draw the attention of a historian? I first met Yury Luzhkov in 1997, at a joint congress of social-democratic and so-cialist parties, when I was a card-holding member of one of those parties. Luzhkov made the city hall building available to us for the purpose, sat on the dais next to me, made several presentations, and generally supported our aspiration for the unification. He said in particular that our political philosophy and that of the Moscow city government were nearly identical. As a matter of fact, he attracted my attention earlier, in 1994, when he first fell out with Boris Yeltsin. There were reports in the press alleging that Yury Luzhkov was hatching a coup d'etat. I started clipping and filing away articles and other material on Luzhkov. Later, I was fascinated to see a remarkable socio-democratic model of society in the making, while the city hall was headed by a person who openly called himself a social-democrat. http://new.mn.ru/english/issue.php?2005-1-2 ===== Nu, zayats, pogodi! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
