“ Desperate Housewives” star Eva Longoria and her boyfriend, New York Jets football player Mark Sanchez had been together for about four months. Already the two have officially split up. Sources close to the celebrity couple cite differences in goals and lifestyles as the main reasons they broke up.

“Mark says he is really upset about the breakup with Eva. He is telling friends he tried everything he could to make her happy, and to make things work between them, but they live in very different worlds,” a person close to the situation told the New York Post.

“The problem was Mark is very focused on football, while Eva is a busy businesswoman. She lives in Los Angeles, is doing a lot of philanthropic and political work, and is developing a number of TV shows.”

Dating can be tricky. If you and your partner have vastly different career or life goals, it can be hard to get on the same page. One way to get on the same page with your partner is to discuss life goals and plans early in your dating relationship. If you decide your goals mesh, then great! If not, then you can either work to make them work or part ways if it’s something that impacts your interactions.
How do you think you and your partner are doing? Are you closer in agreement with your partner than Eva Longoria and her now ex-boyfriend Mark Sanchez were with their life and relationship goals? Share your thoughts below or connect on Facebook today.

Jennifer Love Hewitt is in another relationship. I kind of feel bad for pointing it out, but homegirl has been dating and “in love” more times than any other female celebrity since I started blogging back in 2006 (has it been that long!?). Anyhoo, JLove is dating her ‘The Client List’ co-star, Brian Hallisay, and has been for about six-eight months. (I have no pictures of the guy, but you can see him here)
Rumor has it Jennifer is “in love” and sources say they wouldn’t be surprised if the two settled down. (Sound familiar?) Okay, enough JLove bashing.

In Touch cam confirm that actress Jennifer Love Hewitt is dating her Client List co-star Brian Hallisay, who plays her husband on the show.

“She’s in love!” a pal of the couple shares with In Touch, adding that the two have quietly been seeing each other for eight months. “I wouldn’t be surprised if they settled down soon.”

“They have a solid and healthy relationship, and Brian has been very supportive of Jennifer, especially as she mourned the death of her mother [in June],” says the pal. “They’re good for each other.”

Are the rumors true? JLove has simply Tweeted “Don’t believe everything you read,” is she trying to cover it? Are they not really dating?
No matter what – I wish her well. I hope she DOES find “the one” and settle down and have a soccer team of babies. She lost her mother over the summer to cancer, and could use some happiness!

Well, this is obviously true when everyone has that attitude!

There is one word that has been almost universally worshipped of late. It is a word that somehow gained a reputation as being good, and positive; a word that encourages self-mindedness, even for those that are seemingly completely without any mind at all. The word I am referring to is “independence”.

Oh yes, the struggle! Everyone wants that independence. Was it a Hollywood movie that glamorized the concept? Or the countless TV sitcoms that promote the single life? It doesn’t really matter: it is a sad fact that more and more young people are avoiding getting attached to their (in)-significant others, using the excuse that “divorce is expensive” and “why buy the cow when you can drink the milk for free?”

What? Yes, read that last part again… we have been consumed by a loose form of immorality. People are actually living by these “philosophies”, and no, this is NOT a religious article (before our “intellectuals” start saying I’m pushing a faith concept again), although it does try and promote a fair amount of faith to be given: faith in yourself, and faith in your partner.

It has been said that the reason the divorce rate is so high, and the reason people no longer grow old together, is that we live in an age where it is easier to replace things than repair them. Although I don’t completely dispute this view, I have concluded that we have just become an age of morons.

There is a concept that seems to have been lost along the way: interdependence. It is not entirely the opposite of the word “independence”, but where one plus one would equal two in a relationship of independent people, in an interdependent couple one plus one would equal (a stronger) one.

So how do we change our current trend toward independence and selfishness into an attitude of interdependence and sharing? I have to say that it is not easy. It involves coming to a point where your mindset shifts… maybe a realization that a specific person fits in with most of your ideals? However it happens, you need to lose the focus on your “options”, and give all of your attention to getting rid of those options. Stop living on “what if” exit clauses and live rather according to the “all or nothing” commitment that a skydiver uses when exiting the plane 5km above the Earth. That does not mean you need to be risky, but rather that you need to gauge the level of risk before taking the plunge. Be certain of your abilities and (to mix metaphors) keep your one eye on the goalposts and the other on the ball.

So how did the couples of yester-year manage to stay together ‘til death them did part? Yes it was because they knew they had to fix what broke, but more so the fact that they had every expectation of actually living until death them did part, quite unlike the average modern day couple.

When Kandy Barkley was scoping out the Center of Harmony as a potential location for her clothing boutique, it wasn’t just the space that caught her eye—it was the refrigerator.
“When I came in here, I fell in love with it,” she said.
To be fair, this isn’t just any old refrigerator Barkley is talking about. It’s an antique, floor-to-ceiling decorative cooler that once was used by a butcher in the former Otto & Gert’s building in the heart of historic Harmony.
“It actually functions, too,” Barkley said.
Today, the unique piece occupies a prime space in Barkley’s new clothing boutique, Eye Kandy.
Located inside The Center of Harmony—which also houses several other businesses and an event space—Eye Kandy opened Aug. 1. The boutique features women’s clothing at a variety of price points, handbags, belts and other accessories.
“It’s more one-of-a-kind stuff,” Barkley said of the boutique’s style.
A Seneca Valley alumni who grew up and lives in Harmony, Barkley said she carefully chose each piece in the store to reflect comfort, style and a flattering fit—for all body types.
“The main thing when I look at clothes is how it will look on a women’s body,” she said.
Prior to opening Eye Kandy, Barkley was vice-president of finance at her family’s business, Knichel Logistics in Gibsonia. After taking a break from the business to deal with a health issue, Barkley said she found herself wanting to do something different.
Enter Angela Dawson.
The owner of A. Dawson Apparel Group, which specializes in women’s wholesale clothing and accessories, Dawson, of Jackson Township, is a clothing representative for about a dozen brands.
Barkley, who is friends with Dawson, said she began selling Dawson’s sample items from her own home in trunk shows. It wasn’t long before she decided to open her own boutique.
“I thought wow, this is great,” Barkley said of being inspired to open her own shop. “Everyone loved everything so much.”

Bingham is now engaged to a man who’s not scared off by her debt, but it turns out her ex-boyfriend was far from alone. The issue recently came up in a letter to an advice column at Nerve.com, a pop culture dating website. This time it was a woman wary of a serious relationship because her boyfriend has $150,000 in debt, mostly student loans.

“He was explaining his money stress to me,” the woman wrote, “and I started crying because I saw the future I want falling away.”

She wrote that she felt “embarrassed” about being so “selfish,” and signed her letter, “Am I Being Awful?”

Caitlin Caven, who writes the site’s Miss Information column, assured the woman that she’s right to take a hard look at things. She suggested that a responsible approach to repayment is more important than the boyfriend’s actual — admittedly staggering — amount of debt. Caven says readers also weighed in.

“There were a lot of people saying, ‘Dump him, get out,’ ” she says. “And then there was a lot of backlash, saying, ‘Hey, that’s unfair. You guys are clearly not thinking about how student debt works in this country. So many people are in debt like that, that you can’t just get rid of a good relationship because of it.’ “Caven advised the woman to keep her finances separate and consider a prenuptial agreement.

An Idaho farm offers a new form of speed dating for those looking for something different than the typical dating scene. It’s called ‘weed dating,’ and participants meet each other while pulling weeds amongst rows of zucchini and tomatoes.For one night a year, a neighborhood farm in northwest Boise turns into a respite for singles who are tired of the same old dating scene.A poster board planted at the entrance of Earthly Delights Farm in late June advertised “Weed Dating,” with a heart-stamped arrow guiding visitors to a sign-in table, where they were each assigned a number and invited to sample beer provided by a local brewer.
The farm is among a handful across the country offering an unconventional form of speed dating. Typically, speed daters meet at a bar or restaurant and switch conversational partners every few minutes, in hopes of finding someone compatible. With weed dating, this rapid-fire courtship takes place on the farm, with singles working together in the fields.
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The payoff for their toil? A chance at romance.
Joe Peraino met his previous girlfriend while weed dating at the Boise farm last year. They were together for nine months and found that few others couples could top their account of how they met, said Peraino, who has since relocated to South Carolina.
“It’s a pretty fun story, because it’s not like a known thing, weed dating. A lot of people are like, ‘So, were you on a pot farm?’”
Casey O’Leary owns the Earthly Delights Farm and first heard of the idea from a farm in Vermont. Farms in states that include Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and Ohio have also advertised similar weed dating events. O’Leary organized her first weed dating last year for about 20 people, including some friends and interns on her farm.
More than 40 men and women showed up for this year’s weed dating.
“I feel bad if we don’t have the right people for the right people,” O’Leary said before addressing the crowd. “We’re all weirdos, in general, people, we’re all weirdos right? So like, it’s just a matter of if the right weirdos show up.”
In her role as matchmaker, O’Leary shook a small tambourine to catch everyone’s attention and reassured those who had already started to eye each other that everybody would be paired up with everybody over the course of the evening.
With ages ranging from early 20s to early 50s, O’Leary also provided a small disclaimer.
“Obviously, there are some matches that probably are not appropriate, age-wise, and that’s OK,” she said. “We’re all adults, so just have a good time.”

Feeling A Stigma
“I just usually wait until it comes up and kind of clench my teeth,” says
Craig Pfeister, a 29-year-old craftsman who makes guitars in Denver. He has north of $100,000 in student loans, and has grown used to the reaction that gets from dates.
“Generally, it starts with an awkward look, like, ‘What have I gotten myself into?’ ” he says. Pfeister has come to realize that he’s more comfortable dating women who also have lots of student debt.
“We can kind of laugh about it,” he says, “like we’re both owned by Sallie Mae. If they already have in their mind they’ll have this debt for their entire life, when they hear about mine, it’s just, ‘Oh, you, too?’ ”
And if Pfeister ends up marrying more debt? Sure, it would add to his financial stress. But, he says, at least the stigma would not be just on him.

Hollywood rumors were spreading quickly regarding a potential hot dating relationship between actress Demi Moore and the True Blood vampire hunk Joe Manganiello who plays the role of Alcide Herveaux. After the two were spotted at the season premiere party for True Blood, the media jumped to the conclusion that Moore and Manganiello were dating. Recently separated from husband Ashton Kutcher, Demi has been in the news for her reported battle with mood disorders and drug abuse.

Reports from the actors state they are merely friends. After having met on the set of Majic Mike, the two quickly became friends. Once Demi Moore experienced her marital separation from Ashton Kutcher, however, she quit her job in the movie. Apparently she and Joe kept in touch.
Substance abuse can be a tricky obstacle to overcome on your own. Maybe staying friends with Joe during her hardship has kept Demi on her path to sobriety. As a mother to three girls, she stands to lose a great deal if she cannot clean herself up. Hopefully, with time, she will be able to get a grip on the demons plaguing her physical and emotional health.
A healthy dating relationship starts with two healthy partners. Who will Demi Moore end up with once she is healthy enough to be in a new relationship? Could her friendship with Joe Manganiello turn into a romance?

1. Many thanks for such helpful & comprehensive update in the article. Moscow’s Friday the 13th certainly isn’t a bad summer movie; it has created spy mania & witch-hunt, it was intended to bring back the fear (for the Russian people), it has set the stage for real horrors to come (for the regime). Following the footsteps of his icon, Joseph Stalin, Mr. Putin generated the atmosphere of the late 1930s years in Russia, the Great Purge, with “enemies of the (Putin’s) people”. Psychologists give the advice: if you can’t avoid of being a pray for a rapist, then don’t clash with him and try to enjoy the process. The main goal is to survive the ordeal.
2. Fortunately, at this point the similarity with the late 1930s years in Russia ends as the country is empowered by the international community, the globalized world and all-mighty Internet. They watch every slightest exertion of the regime and wonder. The Russian people also remember that the “new legislation” was approved by a parliament that is handicapped by a shaky mandate and the election was fraudulent.
3. I greatly pity the blundered people who still favor Mr. Putin despite alarming records of misused billions dollars earned for selling-off country’s wealth, one-sided stagnated economy, poor public healthcare and education. The tragedy in Krasnodar and its hush-up by state-monopolized television added to the extensive file of misdeeds in the last ten years that could have been prevented or their extent mightn’t have been that devastating.
4. The regime is at its wit’s end by planting the seeds of fear, inventing illegitimate and anticonstitutional means to suppress willingness of people to have their say. The establishment lost its moral ground. People shouldn’t despair and have the inspiration in Aesop, the great writer from Ancient Greece, around 600 years BC, who gave the pattern to win the battle in his fable “The Bundle of Sticks” when six sons were always fighting amongst themselves. It made hard to get any work done. Their mum showed the error of their ways when she asked each one in turn to snap a whole bundle of sticks. But when she untied the bundle and gave them one stick each to snap, it was easy. The sons realized the value of working together. I see application of the fable in reverse order: they can apply all hosts of draconian laws one step at a time, to separate citizens, but not to the sparkles which kindled the flame. In unity is our victory! Muscovites gave great examples to get together at Moscow State University and Gorky Park.

“I’ve never seen this,” 63-year-old Flora said as he fingered the wilted brown leaves on a four-foot corn stalk that was half the normal height for this time of year and had cobs almost devoid of kernels. “This is good dirt here, but not this year. It’s too dry. I doubt this will produce anything.” The worst Midwest drought since 1988 is baking farms from Arkansas to Ohio and threatening corn output that the U.S. said last week will be the second-largest ever. The price of the grain used in food for people and livestock is surging at a time when retail-meat costs already are near record highs. Global food prices are poised to rebound from a 21-month low in June because of weaker-than-expected supply in the U.S., the world’s largest corn exporter, the United Nations said July 5.

With forecasters including AccuWeather Inc. predicting worsening conditions in the next month, corn traded in Chicago surged by $2.665 a bushel since mid-June, or 53 percent. The rally is adding to pressure on the livestock industry because cattle feedlots are already losing as much as $200 an animal. Sanderson Farms Inc. (SAFM), the third-largest U.S. poultry producer, said every 10-cent corn increase boosts costs by $2.21 million.

Corn advanced 22 percent this month to $7.7225 on the Chicago Board of Trade, the most among 24 commodities in the Standard & Poor’s GSCI Spot Index, which rose 5.2 percent. The MSCI All-Country World Index of equities fell 0.9 percent and the U.S. Dollar Index gained 1.8 percent. Treasuries returned 0.9 percent, a Bank of America Corp. index shows.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Barclays Plc raised their price forecasts by as much as 18 percent last week and Citigroup Inc. said July 11 the grain may reach a record $8. The bull market will persist for several months, Rabobank International analysts led by London-based Luke Chandler said in a report July 11.
“We went from feeling like we were on top of the world with the best crop ever, to the worst ever,” said Michael Wagler, 30, who farms several thousand acres in southern Indiana near Montgomery with his father Dale and his brother Lynford. “It looked really good through May and two weeks into June, and then we got 105-degree temperatures for 10 days, and that’s when everything went backwards.”
Conditions Worsened

About 63 percent of the Midwest had moderate to extreme drought as of July 10, the highest since the government-funded U.S. Drought Monitor in Lincoln, Nebraska, began tracking the data in 2000. The U.S. Department of Agriculture cut its output forecast by 12 percent on July 11 after predicting a record harvest last month. The USDA estimated 38 percent of the crop was in poor or very poor condition as of July 15, the most for that date since 1988 and up from 3 percent on May 18.
Most of Indiana, the fifth-largest U.S. corn grower, got less than 50 percent of normal rainfall in the past three months, with some areas below 5 percent, High Plains Regional Climate Center data show. Wagler is plowing under 25 percent of his corn fields to plant soybeans, which need ample moisture this month and a delayed start to the season’s first frost to result in a profitable harvest. While the strategy has worked before, “it’s a long shot,” he said.
Damaged crops may not mean losses for growers as crop insurance helps preserve farm income that the USDA predicted in February would be $91.7 billion this year, the second-highest ever behind the record of $98.1 billion in 2011.

Federal crop-insurance programs covered 265.7 million acres in 2011, and companies including Wells Fargo & Co. and Ace Ltd. paid out more than $10.8 billion last year, double the $4.25 billion in 2010, after drought on the Great Plains, Mississippi River floods and frosts in the South.
This year, insurers will see “the largest claim that they’ve probably ever had,” said John Cory, the chief executive officer of Prairie Mills Products LLC, a grain processor in Rochester, Indiana.
Even with the drought, farmers are expected to boost corn output by 5 percent this year to 12.97 billion bushels, second only to the record in 2010, after planting the most acres since 1937, the USDA said July 11. The higher output will help boost inventories before next year’s harvest by 31 percent from a 16- year low on Sept. 1 of 903 million bushels, the USDA said.
Rising feed costs are reducing livestock supplies. Beef production will drop 2.4 percent to 24.656 billion pounds next year, the lowest since 1993, and the U.S. cattle herd on Jan. 1 was the smallest since 1952, USDA data show. The agency cut its forecast for poultry output on July 12 by 1.1 percent from its June estimate, to 43.07 billion pounds.
Meat Record

“It’s a bigger picture than: Woe is the farmer because he has a drought,” said Wes Stockdale, whose family has been farming in Indiana for 150 years. “Soon, it’s going to be: Woe is the consumer. There’ll be food on the shelves, but it’s going to cost more.”
Retail ground-beef in the U.S. averaged $3.016 a pound in March, the highest since at least 1984, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Grocers sold whole chickens at a record $1.401 a pound on average in April, and bone-in breasts rose 12 percent this year, government data show. The Iowa Corn Growers Association estimates one bushel of the grain converts to 5.6 pounds of retail beef.
An index of 55 food items tracked by the UN’s Rome-based FAO may advance through to September or October as the grain rally boosts prices for oilseeds and cereal products, Abdolreza Abbassian, an FAO economist, said July 5. The gauge fell 15 percent since reaching a record in February 2011.

Feed costs will be 50 percent higher for Steve Foglesong, 55, who raises 9,000 head of cattle and farms 1,800 acres of corn and soybeans about 65 miles southwest of Peoria, Illinois. Soybean-meal futures advanced 48 percent to record this year in Chicago trading. Foglesong said he may chop down his corn fields and feed the crop to his herd.
“These pastures are bone dry,” Foglesong said by telephone. “They are like a desert.”
In Texas, the biggest U.S. cattle producer, the grain rally is adding to the financial damage from a 2011 drought that was the worst in at least a century and forced ranchers to cull herds. The state’s losses reached $7.62 billion last year, including $3.23 billion for livestock producers, according to Texas A&M University’s AgriLife Extension in College Station.
Most feedlots are losing $150 to $200 per animal sold for slaughter, said Lonnie Busch, a 44-year-old who runs a feed yard owned by Cargill Inc. in Leoti, Kansas. Feedlots buy year-old animals that weigh 500 pounds (227 kilograms) to 800 pounds, fattening them on corn for four or five months until they weigh about 1,200 pounds.

Drought conditions in the southwestern half of the Corn Belt, which runs through the Midwest and stretches from the eastern Dakotas through Ohio and Michigan, are going to get worse, after causing “irreversible damage” to some crops, according to AccuWeather. At least 50 percent of the region will have below-normal rainfall and above normal temperatures in the next 30 days, said Dale Mohler, an AccuWeather meteorologist.
“You need an inch of rain a week to get a good crop, and you’re going to be getting half an inch or less most weeks through mid-August” in the southwestern part of the Corn Belt, Mohler said by telephone from State College, Pennsylvania.
On the 2,900 acres he farms in Indiana, Flora said he will probably make claims on his crop insurance that will pay about 85 percent of a historical yield on the land.
Before the drought, Flora bought a 560-horsepower Deere & Co. (DE) 9630 tractor that cost him $360,000. “I would cancel out, but they have my old tractor resold in Illinois,” he said. “If not for that, I would think about backing out because cash flow is going to be hurting pretty bad this year.”

Tractor Sales
Randy Allen, the store manager at the Wright Implement, a distributor of Deere farm equipment in Crawfordsville, Indiana, said he’s already seeing a decrease in sales. A new planter can cost $300,000, while a combine fetches as much as $500,000 and a tractor is priced at about $200,000, Allen said.
Less than 5 percent of normal rains fell in the past month on ground farmed by 60-year-old David Adcock near Atwood, Illinois. The lack of moisture probably will cut the farm’s yields in half to about 100 bushels an acre, said his son John.
“There was a point in time we had a potential for a world record corn crop if we had the rains,” David Adcock said in an interview at his farm. “We’re scraping on the bottom of the bin already. It’s going to be a big, big deal.”

1) Early life Russian literature: Like other Western European countries at the time, the Russian state developed a governmental system in the late 18th Century to regulate the distribution of best explicit material. By the 19th Century, strict censorship was imposed in Russia, forbidding the publication of a variety of materials deemed to be corrupting to public morals. Even though the circulation of printed free  explicit material was forbidden, this did not prevent oral transmission of folk tales and incantations.

The first few chapters of “Life in Russian Culture” describe early Russian life, followed by a number of chapters devoted to Catherine the Great who was Empress of Russia from 1762 until 1796, and who’s life  reputation has become a legend. “…all the Empresses of Russia had had lovers, but none raised the number of them so high as Catherine the Second. She changed them every twenty-four hours, or oftener. The position of a lover was a public office: the highest, most lucrative, and withal the most entertaining – at least so long as Catherine retained her beauty – which existed in Russia. The qualifications for the office were a handsome face, a fine figure, and above all great physical vigor…” (Stern, B. 1896 – The Private Life of the Romanoffs, trans. Seth Traill. Washington, DC: National Publishing Company).

Several chapters highlight erotic components in Russian and Western European literature by Tolstoy, Marquis de Sade, Casanova, and Rudolph Erich Raspe (Baron Munchhausen) amongst others. Catherine the Great inspired several of these literary works and was in direct communication with some of the authors.

2) The history of Russian life laws: The chapter “Pornography and the Law” by Paul W. Goldschmidt provides a detailed analysis of Russian legislation with respect to life  from early tsarian legislation until recent changes in life laws over the past decade. This section of the book also deals with political developments with respect to sexual health. Whether the facts that divorce was legalized in 1918 and that the “First All-Union Congress for the Struggle Against Venereal Disease” was held in 1923 are related or not remains questionable. Nevertheless, this was the first time that  education with lectures on hygiene was implemented on an official and programmatic level. Somewhere along the way  education got lost, and today apparently only a minority of Russians use contraceptives, probably contributing to the explosion of the rate of life transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Russia.

Russia has gone through several changes in the last few years. Visitors to Moscow just a couple of years ago would be very surprised at how “Western” downtown has become. Expensive shops line the main streets. International businessmen have rated Moscow as the most expensive city to conduct business, more costly that even Tokyo and New York.
The term “New Russian” has been coined for many Russian businessmen, some being quite well to do, even by American standards. This new pursuit-of-the-gold mentality is affecting the culture in general. Large screen TVs, VCRs, car ownership, remodels of city and country homes are now all commonplace. The zeal for the almighty dollar, or more accurately, less-than mighty ruble, is affecting everyone from the rich to the pensioner. Materialism has even roosted on Russian relationships. Russians have always had time for each other. Walks with friends, long conversations on the phone, and meals together were of great importance. With the pursuit of the microwave ovens and computers comes the requirement to work more hours, and for most Russians, at a variety of positions. While many Russians maintain their employ at their “main” job, such as being a teacher, or city employee, or doctor, they also have jobs on the side, such as tutoring, or selling things on the street, or developing a business. Recent observation is that many Russians have less time for walks and talks. Perhaps the days of several workers standing around idly will come to an end…certainly a welcome thing for improving efficiency. But will the superb Russian character of closely connected relationships be compromised in the process of “getting ahead”?

Russia has part of its roots in European culture where the ideas of goodness, honor, and freedom are understood as in the West. The Viking raiders came from the North. Traders from Scandinavia also settled. They became the rulers of Rus, the city-principality of Kiev and forerunner of the Russian state. The other part of Russia has Asian roots. The Mongols, [Tartars] conquered Moscow in 1234 and Kiev in 1240, and ruled with despotism, invaders unstoppable, making Russians their slaves. Russian blood is a mixture of Slavic, Finnish, and Tatar. Kievan Rus had converted to Orthodox Christianity in 988. When Moscow liberated itself from the Tartar yoke in 1480, the modern Russian state was born. Distant from Europe, the new state was cut off from Constantinople which in 1453 had fallen to the Muslim Ottoman Turks. The Russian Orthodox Church, isolated from the rest of Christianity, developed independently as a national church. Russia regarded itself as the third and Last Rome, successor to Rome and Constantinople, the two capitals of the Roman Empire which had fallen to barbarians and infidels. It’s mission as the new center of Christianity was to unite the people of the East and West. The rulers of Russia began to use the title tsar, derived from Caesar. Remote from the West, Russia experienced none of the major developments which shaped modern Europe. The Renaissance happened in the West, with its revival of classical influence and the flowering of the arts, development of modern agriculture and commerce, the scientific revolution, economic liberalism and recognition of individual rights, the beginnings of political liberty, and the growth of a strong middle class. In the West, the middle class was in the forefront of reform. Russia’s failure to develop a strong middle class delayed reform. Russia remained a vast, backward, largely agriculture empire, regimented and ruled by an autocratic dynasty with a holy mission to defend its faith against the barbarians of the East and the heresies and pluralism of the West. Thus, to remote Russia, many things “Western” have come late – manufacturing, higher education, science, etc.

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