In the days following the metro attacks in Moscow, media coverage has coalesced around two distinct narratives that ‘make sense’ of things. The options seem to be these: (a) militants operating out of the North Caucasus represent a link in the global chain of Islamic terrorism, or (b) these acts of violence are the consequence …
An extremely amusing discussion popped up on poemless’ blog the other week. One of Robert Amsterdam’s editors dropped in to make a few specific points about Georgy Satarov, former Yeltsin crony and a recent dabbler in the Other Russia movement. Sean Guillory stopped by and offered some historical context, plotting a line from Stolypin to …
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