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Vladimir Rojankovski. This World is Built on Lies
Gratitude
Preface
Diplomatic Insulation vs. Diplomatic Isolation
The Ubiquitous “Reciprocity”
End of the Cold War was a Time of Hope and Opportunity
This world is built on lies
But…
The modern world’s craze
Ukraine under the USSR: The Untold Story of Tolerance and Respect
Yeltsin’s legacy: “There Will Be No Devaluation. Firmly and Clearly”
FSB colonels’ corruption reached unheard-of scale
The WADA’s anti doping investigation of Russia’s Olympic athletes
Putin’s Spy Hunting Saga: a Never Ending Extravaganza
Will the Trade Wars Lead to Quick Recovery of the U.S. Manufacturers?
“Deripaska” means “Squeeze the Juice”
The Inflated Dollar Exchange Rate is not a Hoax
The New White House Wants to Keep its Power without Committing Money
What We Missed over the Past Two Decades: The Biotech Failed to Deliver
Real Inflation and the Price of the New York Subway Token
One More Great Hoax, the So-Called Rational Market
How “Irrational Exuberance” Kills Real Economy
The Story of the Telegram Messenger
Two Faces of Coronavirus
The Government Discretionary Spending and the Middle Class
How Donald Trump delivers his Promises
What Causes Our Ways of Living to Erode?
Technocracy vs. the Government of the Global Network
Social Networks + Endowments = New Global Government
Afterword
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My special thanks to Brad Golding, my Australian friend and co-thinker who helped me sharpen my expressions and polish sentences. I am also thankful to my former mentor and true true true American friend Rebecca Baldridge, CFA. I want to pay special tribute to all my on- and offline friends – Andre Tkachenko, Michael Ermak, Ross Stukalov, Gennady Sorokopud, Elena Ryabova, Alex Rabinowitz as well as my son Ilya who have been by my side as this book progressed, and encouraged me to carry on.
This book is neither a fiction story nor your typical manual for how to get $30 per hour working from home or treat an incurable disease. Although it may look like something remotely addressing any types of our pragmatic needs, I hope this book will be more than leisure time spending. People around the world have been suffering from chaotic geopolitics and cooling economies for a dozen years, and will face a dozen more years of the same lukewarm ways of living unless we start changing them by ourselves. In the era of the Internet and, consequently, better, faster and more meaningful methods of communication, there will be no place for propaganda and any kind of fakeness, and this will happen pretty soon. Are we ready to accept this new reality? How can we make our governments and politicians work to genuinely improve our lives rather than to aspire to their own career ambitions? Are technocratic governments achievable, or is there is an alternative way to make the existing ones more efficient?
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Wherever I had an opportunity to live and work – be it Lviv, Moscow, London, New York or Los Angeles – I have always had great people around me who became my multilingual and multinational friends. These friendships weren’t built on formal handshakes or by waving hands through the windows of limousines. One of my greatest friends was a young man Hassan from Damascus who used to study with me at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute (now the Moscow State Technical University). I feel compelled to say how much I value these relationships that I have kept sound and rewarding through many years and hundreds or thousands miles that separate us from each other – especially thanks to the contemporary social networks.
The FT claims to have interviewed almost 50 young Russians, all aged between 18 and 25 who live in Moscow, St Petersburg, Siberia and beyond. So this must be quite a representative sampling.
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