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EN. The new version of the visual guide for the city of Chisinau (version 3.0) is officially available. I am writing about it because I participated in the final design stage of this cool project as a translator and localizer. The visual guide of Chisinau is fully available in two languages – Russian and Romanian.…
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RU. Встретились и поговорили в совершено эпическом по объёму эфире “Территории свободы” с Лилией Бураковски и моим коллегой, социологом Василе Кантаржи. Эфир полуторачосовой, поэтому очень вкратце о темах: Что вообще такое социальная политика, а что демографическая? Почему люди уезжают? (в теории) Почему люди уезжают (в нашей молдавской практике) Что мы знаем о Молдове вообще, в…
Read More Социальный аналитик Александр Макухин и социолог Василий Кантаржи в программе “Территория свободы” с Лилией Бураковски
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I talked to Ivan Sveatcenko on Radio Europa Liberă Moldova about (all interview was held in Russian, text and audio version is available): the levers of power are a double-edged sword how human resources decide everything why the “golden four years” are a great responsibility and great weakness too about the fact that there is…
Read More Sociologist Alexandr Macuhin – about the Moldovan elections-2021
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There are many myths and legends about Russian voting in all Moldovan elections. Some of them are confirmed, but most of them are not. So, my 10 theses about Russian voting in Moldovan elections on 11.07.2021. What if I say that PP DA Vasile Kostiuc took 4th place in Russia? Being an aggressive populist in…
Read More 10 theses about the Moldovan votes at Russia in the parliamentary elections – 2021
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While the Moldovan CEC keeps thinking, I try to answer the question “what about voting outside the EU in the elections – 2021? And in fact, the process of recounting the protocols reveals a lot of interesting things – you could write a dissertation. Today – the final results of the voting of Moldovan citizens…
Read More A few words about “non-EU” voting in the elections-2021 in Moldova
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To paraphrase the classic, “you have to live in Moldova for a very long time, then something will work out“. Actually, for a very long or not so – is a secondary question, and the main thing is to write down all the moves carefully. Even if you are not writing them down carefully, you…
Read More The main electoral failure in the parliamentary elections of 2021 in Moldova
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While the CEC is waiting for the traditionally lost last protocol, I can quickly, with one map and a couple of sentences, answer the question that last night and last night 1.35 million voters in Moldova were asking themselves: – “HOW ***** the SHOR party can do it?” The answer is on the map and…
Read More First look at the results of parliamentary elections 2021 in Moldova
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The “told ya” post is a regular occurrence. Symptomatically, such posts are getting shorter and shorter. According to preliminary data for 2020, there is a population decline of almost 10 thousand people in Moldova ONLY on the birth-death balance, without taking migration into account. All other figures on the screen are carefully circled by multi-colored…
Read More Record population decline in Moldova in one year (even despite the pandemic)Okay then, let’s start to revitalize my blog! On May 8, has died Ronald Inglehart, the last living titan of political science. He is best known for the World Values Survey, a project he started back in 1981, and ran for more than 40 years. The results of these studies are very nicely visualized in…
Read More The Socio-Political Values in the real Political Science
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Actually, if you suddenly want to approach emigration in a more meaningful way (and there is an opinion that after the pandemic is over, many people will think about migration), here is the latest Migration and Integration Policy Quality Index. And by the way, it’s not obvious in general – the best place to integrate…
Read More Migration and Integration Policy Index – 2020