18 Mar 2012
Another of my New Books Network interviews has gone live. In this episode, I spoke with Jeffrey Mankoff, an adjunct fellow with the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, and a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York. Mankoff recently released a second edition of his book Russian [...]
31 Aug 2010
27 Jul 2010
The following post is my response to an article published by the author the Russia & CIS blog, Democratist. The original piece is titled “Encouraging Liberalization in Russia.” Oil dependency and crippling corruption. Yes, these are certainly problems facing Russia’s economic development. (Though I do find it curious that you use military tech as an [...]
14 Jul 2010
As a regular listener of Echo of Moscow, I took note of a July 7, 2010, episode of ‘Народ против’ (The People Versus), starring the notorious Vladimir Zhirinovsky. The subject of the show was “The New START Treaty Shouldn’t Be Ratified,” and Vladimir Volfovich came to Эхо’s studio clad in a casual, short-sleeved shirt, ready [...]
10 Jul 2010
While the media deluge on this subject makes it virtually impossible to say anything new or interesting about the Russian-American spy swap this week, there was an important revelation yesterday in The Washington Post that occasions a few more words. Karen DeYoung reports that President Obama only learned about the Russian illegals-spy program on June [...]
6 Jul 2010
Tuesday, July 6th, Americans nursing Independence Day hangovers will wake up to find in their morning paper a second reason to start the day with a headache: an outrageously stupid op-ed by Mitt Romney in the Washington Post. Mr. Romney’s article is about the New START Treaty, what he calls President Obama’s “worst foreign-policy mistake [...]
5 Jul 2010
In honor of the holiday, just a short post today. Not a post, at all, really, but a partial repost and recommendation that anyone with some spare time on this blazing-hot Monday take a look at Ilya Yashin’s recent blogging about his tour of the United States. Suddenly the amateur anthropologist/ethnographer, Yashin has visited Washington [...]
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