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2017/05/27 - 21:46 •
Analysis & Opinion, News, Russia
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But there needs to be a way to mark those which can’t be discussed in...
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2017/05/25 - 11:18 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
Many commentators have discussed whether Vladimir Putin is a fascist in any serious sense, but most have failed to consider one area where fascism has clearly arisen in his Russia: in the aesthetics that increasingly inform Moscow’s...
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2017/05/22 - 00:25 •
Analysis & Opinion, News, Russia
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But there needs to be a way to mark those which can’t be discussed in...
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2017/05/15 - 07:35 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia, Ukraine
Most of those influenced by Samuel Huntington’s ideas about “the clash of civilizations” have focused on the confrontation between the Christian West and the world of Islam. A smaller number have focused on the conflict between the...
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2017/05/14 - 05:41 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
In ever more sectors, Vladimir Putin has dropped all pretense that he is acting with the support of the Russian people and has moved instead to institute what can only be called the rules of a state of emergency on ever more sectors of...
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2017/05/13 - 21:12 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often appears to be is far too large for anyone to keep up with. But there needs to be a way to mark those which can’t be discussed in...
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2017/05/06 - 07:00 •
Analysis & Opinion
The Foundation for the Development of Civil Society says in a 26-page report that “’a Putin majority’” exists and consists “not only of the traditionally supportive employees of the state, villagers and pensioners but also the...
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2017/03/10 - 11:27 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
Historians have often observed that one of the fundamental weaknesses of tsarist Russia was that the country was held together only by personalist ties of loyalty to the tsar and so that when the tsar was removed from the equation, Russia...
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2017/03/10 - 11:02 •
Analysis & Opinion, Politics, Russia
Vladimir Putin has tried to create something that the world has never seen and that quite possibly cannot be realized: the construction of a totalitarian state not on the basis of ideology but rather on political technologies alone. In any...
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2017/02/15 - 14:03 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
Many of the problems Russians now face are rooted in their firmly-held misconceptions about the nature of Russia and Russian national identity. To help them out, Dmitry Olshansky, a columnist for “Komsomolskaya pravda,” identifies...
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