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
Moscow
The Politics of Russia’s Apartment Demolition
Guest: Maxim Trudolubov on Moscow’s apartment demolition plans.
September 24, 2017
Restoring Dzerzhinsky
There are good ideas. There are bad ideas. Then there are really, really bad ideas. It seems that the Moscow city government might embrace the
October 11, 2013
The Kremlin’s Electoral Coup
This week’s Russia! Magazine column, “Sobyanin Wins! Navalny Wins! The Kremlin Wins?” I felt something strange while watching Sunday’s Moscow mayoral election: excitement. It had
September 12, 2013
Migrants and Corruption
I got a gig writing for the Nation. Here’s my first article, “Corruption, Not Migrants, Is Russia’s Problem.” A few words updating the story. Yesterday
August 21, 2013
Moscow in Perspective
Moscow. Being in Russia’s capital provides a perspective impossible to acquire through the news. Contrary to popular belief, the Internet doesn’t bring us closer together.
November 29, 2009
Luzhkov the Weather Warlock
I think I finally understand why the Kremlin was so hell bent on securing Yuri Luzhkov’s continued domination over Moscow politics: the weather. Yuri Mikhailovich
October 18, 2009
“Good people live in bathtubs.”
Vedomosti has a great article on the history of Russia’s housing crisis. Housing, as Maksim Trudoliubov notes, is a chronic historical problem in Russia, one
July 31, 2009
Moscow Costs but Pays
The fact that Moscow is expensive city is well known. For the second consecutive year, the Cost of Living Survey, which is conducted by the
January 28, 2008
Moscow’s Rise Not Without Costs
Today’s news is buzzing with reports of Moscow becoming the most expensive city in the world. According to a survey by Mercer Human Resource Consulting,
June 26, 2006
Study Finds Moscow Metro Rife with Racial Profiling
Here’s a surprise. Moscow militsa stop non-Slavs 22 times more often than Slavic looking people. I would have never known! So says a new study
June 23, 2006