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Sauron Does Moscow (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Monday, August 5th, 2019



A Russian art group decided to crown the Moscow International Business Center with the All-Seeing Eye of Sauron

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Born This Way (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Thursday, August 1st, 2019



For the rich Russians, it’s not just genes; it’s genealogy.

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Aristocrats from Outer Space (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Monday, July 29th, 2019



An Ayn Rand hero from outer space

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Moving Beyond Money (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Thursday, July 25th, 2019



The hero of Billionaire does not see money as the immediate solution to all problems.

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Istanbul, Not Constantinople (Turkish Gambit 12)

Eliot Borenstein Wednesday, July 24th, 2019



The Turkish Gambit was first published in 1998, the year before the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia

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The Man Who Has Everything (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Monday, July 22nd, 2019



These novels include: transparent alien artifact hunters, a lost tribe of yeti, and a cryogenically frozen Adolf Hitler maintained by a colony of cloned Valkyries on a secret Antarctic base

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We Need a (Rich) Hero (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Thursday, July 18th, 2019



The rich Russian as citizen and patriot was becoming thinkable.

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Rich Man’s Burden (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Monday, July 15th, 2019



Where was the New Russian supposed to find a conscience?

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Loving the Leviathan (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Thursday, July 11th, 2019



The State is the Leviathan; the New Russian is somewhere between a piranha and a guppy.

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Articles of Incorporation (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Monday, July 8th, 2019



If the New Russians/oligarchs are not responsible when things go bad, who is?

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The New Russian in the Rearview Mirror (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019



What could be more Nineties than that?

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Bad Taste, Revisited (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Monday, July 1st, 2019



Тhe New Russian resembles the American stereotypes of lottery winners

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Raspberry Jackets of the Rich and Loathsome (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Thursday, June 27th, 2019



The raspberry jacket quickly became shorthand for “New Russian”

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Jokes and the New Russian Body

Eliot Borenstein Monday, June 24th, 2019



The New Russian is a nightmare vision of the Posthuman

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The New Russian and the American Psycho (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Thursday, June 20th, 2019



The New Russians of Death Comes by Internet would make excellent cult leaders

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The Road to Serfdom (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Monday, June 17th, 2019



The New Russian offers a vision of social stratification that uses capitalism as a way station to serfdom

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No Class (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Thursday, June 13th, 2019



The end of communism was like a game of musical chairs

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Loved Labours Lost (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Monday, June 10th, 2019



Virtually nothing that the New Russian did to generate money qualified as labor in the Soviet sense.

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Soviet Bullsh*t and New Russian Spell-Casting (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Tuesday, June 4th, 2019



Green is not just the color of the crocodile, it is the color of the money that he conjures out of thin air.

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Is a Crocodile Longer Than It Is Green? (Russia’s Alien Nations)

Eliot Borenstein Monday, June 3rd, 2019



On the level of logic, you can prove anything.

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