The more I think about Nemtsov’s murder, the more worried I am about what comes next.
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Olga Shevchenko
The inevitable refrain “We have seen worse!” implied that there was nothing about the current recession that Russian citizens hadn’t competently handled before.
Continue reading...Anna Arutunyan explains the Putin mystique
Ilaria Parogni
On Nov. 5 journalist and author Anna Arutunyan joined Russia expert and Clinical Professor of Global Affairs at the NYU’s Center for Global Affairs Mark Galeotti in conversation for an event at the School of Professional Studies. The event, hosted in collaboration with the Jordan Center, focused on the figure of president Vladimir Putin and was the second installment of Revisiting Russia, a three-part series of talks aimed at discussing Russia’s future and its place in the world.
Cold War Again: Who’s Responsible?
Stephen F. Cohen
The East-West confrontation over Ukraine, which led to Moscow’s annexation of Crimea but long predated it, is potentially the worst international crisis in more than fifty years—and the most fateful. A negotiated resolution is possible, but time may be running out.
Continue reading...Distorting Russia: How the US Media Misrepresent Sochi, Putin, and Ukraine
Stephen F. Cohen
American media on Russia today are less objective, less balanced, more conformist and scarcely less ideological than when they covered Soviet Russia during the Cold War.
Continue reading...Tsar Nicholas Putin: Continuity or Coincidence?
Nathaniel Knight
On a cold December morning in the capital city a crowd gathered to protest Russia’s new ruler. Slogans and cheers sounded through the winter air as the people awaited the regime’s response…
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