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Dmitry Medvedev : President of Russia : Video Blog at the Kremlin

By Andis Kaulins

We found it educational that the current President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, has a video blog, with English subtitles. For someone who grew up during the "Cold War" era, the idea there there is now a domain Kremlin.ru is really quite remarkable, and shows how very far forward Russia and much of Eastern Europe have developed.

Nevertheless, it is still a cause for concern that numerous people in the West do not accurately understand Russia and the countries of Eastern Europe. This group sometimes even includes some of the people who profess to be experts on this area of the world. Indeed, in past years it was always puzzling to this observer that the governments of Western nations did not pay nearly enough attention to people who did have some hands-on knowledge about Russia and Eastern Europe, but who - certainly in the past - appeared to be seldom consulted about that knowledge.

In fact, when one reads what Western academics, politicians and mainstream journalists write and say about Russia and Eastern Europe even today, it is clear that some of them often have avoidable knowledge deficits which could be greatly improved by consulting people with direct contacts to the countries in question. Lack of accurate information has the negative potential of affecting world political relations, which are consequently sometimes built upon exaggerated ideological differences and avoidable military conflicts rather than on down-to-earth issues involving practical world economic, social and legal realities.

In this regard, take a look at our next posting.

Full post as published by LawPundit on March 18, 2009 (boomark / email).