The US-Russia Rivalry
Guest: Andrei Tsygankov on the ongoing US-Russia rivalry.
June 4, 2021
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The US-Russia-China Triangle
Guest: Thomas Graham on the new “Cold War,” the United States, Russia, and China.
May 28, 2021
Gulag Criminal Subculture
Guest: Mark Vincent on Criminal Subculture in the Gulag: Prisoner Society in the Stalinist Labour Camps published by Bloomsbury.
May 14, 2021
Prostitution in Late Imperial Russia
Guest: Siobhán Hearne on Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia published by Oxford University Press.
May 7, 2021
Blind Activism in the Cold War
Guest: Cristina Galmarini on international blind activism from the communist bloc during the Cold War.
April 30, 2021
Stanislav Markelov
Surkov and Neo-Nazis?
My latest for Russia Magazine, “Did Vladislav Surkov Help Fund Neo-Nazis?“: It’s long been rumored that Vladislav Surkov funded and directed football hooligans and Russian
February 28, 2014
Nationalists Declare Themselves “Russians”
This Russia Today report is a perfect supplement to other trends regarding the appeal of neo-Nazism and ultra-nationalism in Russia. Just in time for Victory
May 7, 2011
Markelov and Baburova’s Murders One Year Past
One year ago, an assassin in a ski masked shot anti-fascist lawyer Stanislav Markelov in the back in the head near Kropotkinskaya metro. The killer then shot Novaya gazeta journalist Anastasia Baburova as she went after him. She died in a hospital shortly thereafter. Both were well known antifascists. The memory of these two figures, however, not only reminds us of the plight of human rights activists and journalists in Russia, but also the specter of Russian fascist violence.
January 19, 2010
Medvedev Meets Novaya’s Muratov, Gorbachev
There has been alot of criticism of President Medvedev’s and Prime Minister Putin’s silence in regard to the murder of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova.
January 29, 2009
Consolatory Cops
The opening paragraph of Kommersant‘s article on Stanislav Markelov’s funeral reads: Ostankinskoe cemetery where the jurist Stanislav Markelov was to be buried was heavily guarded.
January 24, 2009
Leads on Markelov Case Cold
A definitive narrative is forming in the Russian mainstream press about the Markelov-Baburova murders. This narrative says that it is unlikely that Colonel Yuriy Budanov
January 23, 2009
Who Killed Stanislav Markelov? Let the Theories Begin!
Stanislav Markelov had a lot of enemies. In addition to representing the Kungayev family, his other clients included: Khimkinskaya Pravda editor Mikhail Beketov (he’s on
January 21, 2009
Human Rights Lawyer, Journalist Executed in Moscow
As many already know, human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and Novaya gazeta journalist Anastasia Baburova were gunned down in Moscow near the Kropotkinskaya metro on
January 19, 2009