
Nina Jobe
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A long-time Slavophile, Nina has been active on Twitter as @NinaIvanovna and blogged about Russian politics at Putinania from 2009 to 2013, and most recently at ninajobe .
She was a contributor to Global Voices' RuNet Echo project, focusing on Russian social media, corruption, security, & terrorism, particularly in the North Caucasus from 2013-2014.
She was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ukraine from 2006-2008, and lived in Tbilisi, Georgia from 2013-2014.
Impressions from Kyiv under Poroshenko’s ATO
My taxi driver wants to know why the US isn’t helping Ukraine. He seems pretty convinced that everything…
13/06/2015
Putin’s Crimea film borrows from Nazi propaganda film about Sudetenland
It turns out that the Kremlin is not that creative. According to an article posted online on 29…
04/05/2015
The Russian mentality: fear of enslavement and the Resource Curse
Alfred Kokh had a long piece on his Facebook page yesterday about the Russian mentality, and Russian fears. …
31/03/2015
Putin’s FSB speech paves road for more repressions and crackdowns in Russia
Highlights from Putin’s speech to the Federal Security Service board meeting on 26 March 2014: I would like…
27/03/2015
Putin’s appearances in public hit record low
In a recent blog post, Irina Zarifian asks “who is giving orders [in Russia today]?” [The graph comes…
27/03/2015
Putin waiting out conflict between FSB and Kadyrov forces, Belkovsky says
In his latest statement posted on Open Russia, Belkovsky argues that Putin is facing a conflict between different…
14/03/2015
Russia’s goals in Ukraine: toward a second Yalta?
A narrative is emerging about Russia’s goals and ambitions in Ukraine. In this version of what is motivating…
10/03/2015