My oldest friend, son of a senior nomenklatura professor, hugged me as we stood beside Checkpoint Charlie and I headed off, for the umpteenth time, to a break in what he called "my .
The chief beneficiaries of overcentralization are the nomenklatura, the 750,000 to 1 million members of the bureaucratic elite at the upper reaches of the system.
For now, most of the Moscow nomenklatura don't seem to get this.
Global warming alarmists and the nuisance of politics: James Varney/links Though it's not official yet - the nomenklatura doesn't issue press releases on this sort of thing - the thick snows of winter appear to have changed "global warming" to "climate change." Well, at least until the next hot summer.The...
Feb. 17, 2014 - New Orleans Times-Picayune