The Media Is the Message
“A journalist is tasked with making money for those who hired him,” says Russia’s deputy minister of communications.
View ArticleThe Single Logic of Continuous Russian History
Will my daughter’s generation will be the first and last in Russia to have a chance at growing up with a sane view of history?
View ArticleFrom the Safety of Switzerland
Russian opposition writers criticize one of their own for lambasting the Putin government from abroad.
View ArticleRussia’s New Normal
Bombarded with homophobia in Russia, my children now struggle to recognize things as they should be.
View ArticleThe Man Behind Putin
Until his death on Saturday, the oligarch Boris Berezovsky thought it was a brilliant idea for him to have backed the president who is ruining Russia.
View ArticleRepression in Russia, in Black and White
The Putin administration’s rhetoric, practice and law have been remarkably consistent: their point is to crush civil society.
View ArticleTotal Dictation, Partial Dictatorship
Russia’s xenophobic officialdom can’t keep out of anything, not even a spelling contest.
View ArticleAll Politics Is Economic
Yet another Russian news outlet is going under, ostensibly for business reasons. Don’t be fooled.
View ArticleAre Totalitarianisms Like Snowflakes?
A fierce debate has erupted in Russia over whether Nazism and Communism are comparable.
View ArticleWaltz With Vladimir
The Russian intelligentsia faces the same choice as under the Soviet Union: emigrate externally or internally, by retreating into elaborate rituals bearing no connection to the problems of the day.
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