US and Stalinist Prison Populations Revisited
Back in 2013, I wrote a post examining at the numbers of people in the Stalinist gulag compared to the US prison industrial complex. The
Back in 2013, I wrote a post examining at the numbers of people in the Stalinist gulag compared to the US prison industrial complex. The
Guest: Doug Rogers on The Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, and Culture After Socialism.
Guest: Keith Gessen on western reporting on the Ukraine crisis.
Recent reports in Vedomosti and RBK dovetail nicely with the editorial I’ve translated below from the folks at OpenLeft.ru. Vedomosti predicts that in 2016 Russia’s
For all intents and purposes, Russia’s official unemployment rate remains quite low for an economy in recession. The Russian Statistical Agency reports that the official
Three graphs speak to the plight of the Russian consumer in 2015: the ruble-dollar exchange rate, inflation, and real wage growth: http://cdn.tradingeconomics.com/embed/?s=usdrub&v=201512111855m&d1=20141001&d2=20151211&h=300&w=600 Source: tradingeconomics.com http://cdn.tradingeconomics.com/embed/?s=rucpiyoy&v=201512102303m&d1=20140101&d2=20151231&type=type=line&h=300&w=600 Source:
Since November 15, truckers have been staging protests in no less than twenty-four regions across Russia against a new freight tax. The law institutes a
After a long hiatus, I’ve started writing for Russia! Magazine again. Here’s my re-debut article, “Ukraine’s New Neoliberal Necromancer,” on the Ukrainian Finance Ministry’s hiring