Following the announcement of Putin’s presidential comeback, anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny was one of the first commentators to suggest that the main threat to the seemingly endless continuation of his rule would be Russia’s i...
Following the announcement of Putin’s presidential comeback, anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny was one of the first commentators to suggest that the main threat to the seemingly endless continuation of his rule would be Russia’s i...
Clifford Gaddy argues that the work of Alexei Kudrin is not yet done, and as soon as Vladimir Putin re-assumes the presidency, a new job will be invented for him to fulfill. Kudrin and Putin came in August 1996 as a package, and in fact they opera...
For the past number of years, extreme right groups of nationalists in Russia were more or less successfully contained, co-opted, and incorporated under the structures of the ruling party, with the Nashi only representing the tip of the iceberg. I...
Petrocrat, gerontocrat, kleptocrat. The nomenclature used in this week’s op-eds to describe Putin’s specific brand of leadership seem to have drawn upon almost every possible type of dictatorship in modern history. An interesting poi...
Petrocrat, gerontocrat, kleptocrat. The nomenclature used in this week’s op-eds to describe Putin’s specific brand of leadership seem to have drawn upon almost every possible type of dictatorship in modern history. An interesting poi...
As Kremlinologists imagine, for the most part mournfully, how another decade with Putin might look, is the PM imagining how he might look? Amidst all the high politics, here’s a little bit of scurrilous gossip: has Vladimir Putin gone the G...
As Kremlinologists imagine, for the most part mournfully, how another decade with Putin might look, is the PM imagining how he might look? Amidst all the high politics, here’s a little bit of scurrilous gossip: has Vladimir Putin gone the G...
TODAY: Kudrin’s successor named; former Finance Minister denies resignation spontaneous; lambasts Right Cause; Medvedev defends military spending. Forecasts of what Putin’s new reign might bring; deleterious effect on US Reset? Lavr...
Thanks to the impetus of Senators Benjamin L. Cardin and John McCain, the US has already established a visa blacklist on 6o Russian officials who were believed to be implicated in the death in custody of Hermitage Lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in Novemb...
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