The Un-Alarmist Article Will Not Be Published
Julia Ioffe, a young journalist who’s written for Fortune, Newsweek, and the New Yorker, has an interesting new article out in Foreign Policy. “The Revolution Will Definitely Not Be Televised” is about...
View ArticleThe Kaliningrad Buzz
A scene from the January protest. In the last week or so, an unusual number of American media outlets have hosted, tweeted, retweeted, and otherwise regurgitated the ramblings and ruminations of...
View ArticleRussia's Sick Police
What Сноб.ru thinks of Russian cops. The reform of Russia’s Interior Ministry (MVD) produced some news this week in the form of an amusing interview with Rashid Nurgaliev, the ministry’s chief....
View ArticleOleg Kashin on 'Strategy-31' (Full Translation)
The following is my translation of Oleg Kashin’s firsthand account and private ruminations on the May 31, 2010, opposition rally in Triumfal’naia Square in Moscow. Oleg Kashin This article was...
View ArticleSolidarnost'. Itogi. 2 goda. (Solidarity. The Results. 2 Years.)
Solidarnost'. Itogi. 2 goda. Vladimir Milov has enjoyed a great deal of limelight over the past couple of weeks as Boris Nemtsov’s co-author of “Putin. Itogi. 10 let,” a 48-page anti-Putin book that’s...
View ArticleOn "Minor & Non-Critical" Issues: Oleg Kozlovsky vs. Gay Rights
FADE-IN. EXTERIOR PUBLIC PARK, IN THE BACKGROUND IS A LARGE HISTORICAL STATUE & A CONSTANT STREAM OF PASSERSBY WIDE SHOT – A GROUP OF PROTESTERS IS GATHERED BY THE STATUE WIDE SHOT TO CLOSE-UP – A...
View ArticleThe PR Veto
What's his game? Late last week on November 6th at 9am Moscow time, just as the city was waking to the news that one of its most talented journalists had been nearly beaten to death overnight,...
View ArticleTough Choices Facing the Russian Opposition
The following is a short article co-written with Wesleyan University’s Professor Peter Rutland, who blogs about nationalism at NationalismWatch. It was drafted in early March, immediately after the...
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