international magazine
04 / 2010


Prophets in their own land...
Dr Alexander Shakun, Neftekhim Krasnodar General director


There's a widely shared myth about Russian character as something swinging from an arrogant faith in Russia's superiority and jingoism to miserable lack of spirit and even bitter envy to the other lands, described in Russian classic's Leskov «Lefthander» tale, when sick Lefthander repeats in affective delirium that the English never clean their rifles with crushed red bricks…