Nenad Pejic: Assignment To Harass
On Friday, March 18, around 7 p.m., my colleague was waiting in her apartment in downtown Moscow for a delivery from a nearby grocery...
Is Russia’s National Character Authoritarian?
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and the Russian public’s acquiescence in direct government control of news media have many people wondering if Russians are predisposed...
Putin’s Radical Friends
A wave of fear is passing through Europe. With unresolved problems in the euro and refugee crisis, left-wing and right-wing populists are gaining strength....
Is Trump a Sleeper Agent for Moscow?
The media are having a field day over the fact that former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke supports Donald Trump for president. Trump...
Andreas Umland: Forget Ukraine Fatigue
How the Kremlin’s Hybrid War against Ukraine Spoiled the Euromaidan Revolution, Andreas Umland wrote for Intersection Project.
Contrary to the high expectations following the formation...
Jens Siegert: On Taboos, Glasnost and Anti-glasnost
Source: Russia Blog (Heinrich Boell Foundation).
The first Russian words I learnt (after ‘da’, ‘net’, ‘na zdorovye’ and ‘Sputnik’) were perestroika and glasnost – ‘restructuring’...
Putin Allying with Europe’s Far Right Not Just to Change European Policies but to...
Most commentators have suggested that Vladimir Putin is supporting the Russian extreme right to force the governments of Germany and other European countries to...
What explains the sometimes obsessive anti-Americanism of Russian elites?
Speaking earlier this month at the Munich Security Conference, Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned that his country and the West are headed towards...
Gross incompetence
Besides oil an gas, other major exports for the Kremlin include whataboutism and other logical fallacies. This story, however, concerns domestic consumption of whataboutism....
The Useful Idiots Show
During the 1950s, there was a term that was sometimes used to describe people who were exploited by Soviet communists to publicly support their...