Russia’s Scandalocracy
This week’s Russia! Magazine column, “Russia’s Descent into Absurdity,” A rather hilarious petition, “Check E. B. Mizulina’s mental health” is circulating around RuNet. If you
August 8, 2013
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Jailing Russia’s Mayors
This week’s Russia! Magazine column, “The Summer of Mayors“: It’s the summer of mayors in Russia. That’s right: mayors. Those unalluring, often block shaped, overwhelmingly
July 25, 2013
Russia’s Negative Family Values
This week’s Russia! Magazine column, “Family Values and Putin’s Fourth Pillar,” Last month, the Russian journalist Oleg Kashin called the 23 year old man brutally murdered
June 13, 2013
Migrants and the Russian Nation
This week’s Russia! Magazine column, “Migrants and Russia’s Split National Identity,” When asked about migrant workers in a recent interview with Moskovskii novosti, Sergey Sobyanin
June 6, 2013
On Putin’s Bulldogs
This week’s Russia Magazine! column, “Putin’s Bulldogs and Their Bones,” In reference to the succession struggle after Stalin’s death, Winston Churchill famously compared the opaqueness
May 23, 2013
Putin’s Unmoored Youth
This week’s Russia Magazine! column, “The Kids Aren’t Alright,” “Who has the youth has the future!” Martin Luther declared. As object-subjects of modern states, youth
May 16, 2013
Fragmenting Putinism
This week’s Russia! Magazine column, “Surveying Putin 2.0“: In his seminal essay on hegemony, State and Civil Society, the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci summed up
May 2, 2013
The Let’s Pretend Game
This week’s Russia! Magazine column, “The Magnitsky Minstrelsy“: The passage of the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012 last December sent US-Russia
April 18, 2013
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