Foreign Policy

New Books Network Interview with Jeffrey Mankoff

New Books Network Interview with Jeffrey Mankoff

18 Mar 2012

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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 [...]

By: Kevin Rothrock Category: New Books Network, Russian Nationalism, U.S.-Russian Relations Tags: , , , ,

A Response to Julia Ioffe's 'Bears in a Honey Trap'

29 Apr 2010

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Yesterday in Foreign Policy, Julia Ioffe published the most in-depth English-language article to-date on the hidden-camera scandals in Russia. She interviews Solidarnost’s Ilya Yashin, Nashi’s Robert Schlegel, and the center of the fiasco himself: Viktor Shenderovich. It is a weird article. Yashin compares infidelity and mattress-humping to defecation; Shenderovich says that his wife “reacted completely [...]

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