Review of: B Ryan Caplan . The Myth of the Rational Voter: Who Democracies Choose Bad Policies. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 280 p. * * * Why even worry about voting? The chance that one vote can affect the election results is almost zero, and the trip to the polling station is associated with significant time losses. The presidential elections, in which more than 100 million people participate, have never decided in one voice.

As an international organization of the CIS is almost incapable. Most agreements adopted within the CIS are not met. His competence is low. Really important decisions are made within the framework of other integration entities: the CSTO, the Union State of Russia and Belarus, Evraz, at the level of bilateral agreements between the CIS participants. But the CIS is important as a kind of symbol of the former USSR.

With interest, he noted for himself the fact that our conservative liberals have appointed a decent wage of people with one of the country's non-competitiveness factors: “ Until recently, in Russia, private companies lost foreign companies due to high wages , transport costs, poor labor organization, corruption component. Therefore, a reduction in salaries in a certain part of the business will positively tell in the economy of the economy In general. And here is what V.

Probably, no document of international law has caused as much controversy and strife in the post-Soviet space as the Belovezhskaya Agreement, which formally laid the first stone in the foundation of the Commonwealth of Independent States. It is known that by that time referendums had been held in ten republics of the USSR, as a result of which the overwhelming majority of citizens were in favor of maintaining a single state.

I think the cooperation of states in the post -Soviet space is possible and even necessary. Surely around the world there will now be attempts to cooperate in different format - both in global and regional. Separately in East Asia, separately, maybe in America, separately in Europe. Of course, international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank will be used. They, too, will probably contribute.

Quiet horror: in the country, personnel hunger was so aggravated that the leaders of the “despicable demryse” become governors, and in the “presidential thousand”, they say, they gain people almost from the street. But what else remains to do if the slender vertical of power turned into a rolled parade ground, on which nothing to sprout? Suppose we are really contraindicated in democracy with its competition of harmful ideas and constant elections, leading leaders to the Czech.