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Nina L. Khrushcheva

Nina L. Khrushcheva

Nina Khrushcheva, author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics, teaches international affairs at The New School and is senior fellow at the World Policy Institute in New York.
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  • Ukrainian Democracy and Its Cynics

    Nina L. Khrushcheva Series: The World in Words
    2010-02-02
    Because Ukraine's Orange Revolution in 2004 turned out to be a seeming unending series of disappointments, most Western leaders are acting as if it makes no difference whether Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko or her rival, Viktor Yanukovich, wins on February 7. They are wrong: a victory for Yanukovich now may be the last free vote Ukraine sees for a long time.... read
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  • Vladimir Putin’s Potemkin Nation

    Nina L. Khrushcheva Series: 2009 Year End Series
    2009-12-07
    Vladimir Putin’s political genius is that he understands that, for Russians, being perceived as powerful is even more important than actually being powerful. That is why neither he nor his presidential factotum, Dmitri Medvedev, will have to make good in 2010 on promises to modernize Russia decrepit economy and backward society.... read
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  • KGB Petroleum

    Nina L. Khrushcheva Series: The Energy Challenge
    2009-11-16
    cartoon Today, the contemporary version of the KGB, the Federal Security Bureau, runs Russia’s energy businesses in much the same top-down way that the KGB once ran the Soviet Union, with business always subordinate to the regime’s political needs. The result has been not only widespread corruption and under-investment, but also an inability to modernize and diversify the economy.... read
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  • Two Funerals and Our Freedom

    Nina L. Khrushcheva Series: The World in Words
    2009-07-29
    The recent deaths of Béla Király, who commanded Hungary's freedom fighters in 1956, and of the Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski, whose break with Stalinism inspired many intellectuals to abandon communism, recalls their legacy for today's Europe. They, together with Nikita Krushchev, paved the way for the Continent's freedom and unification.... read
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  • Putin’s Year of Living Dangerously

    Nina L. Khrushcheva Series: 2008 Year End Series
    2008-12-01
    In the first half of 2008, Russia was on top of the world, as record-high oil prices boosted revenues and the country racked up one international success after another - in hockey, soccer, the Eurovision Song Contest, and the battle to host the 2014 Winter Olympics. Unfortunately for Russia, 2008 had two halves.... read
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  • The Prophet and the Commissars

    Nina L. Khrushcheva Series: The World in Words
    2008-08-06
    Even in death, Alexander Solzhenitsyn will remain a force to be reckoned with. Having been used by Nikita Khrushchev to undermine the Stalin era's moral pretenses, and by Vladimir Putin to uphold the ideals of Russian nationalism, perhaps one day his work will be restored to its rightful place as a monument to individual freedom.... read
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  • China’s Triumph of the Will

    Nina L. Khrushcheva Series: The World in Words
    2008-08-01
    China's rulers may have been politically tone-deaf in choosing Albert Speer Jr., the son of Hitler’s favorite architect and the designer of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, as the overall designer of the Beijing Games. But they wanted, above all, an Olympics that reflected their image of themselves in a bombastic architecture of power, and Speer Jr. delivered the goods.... read
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  • Putin’s Unwilling Executioner?

    Nina L. Khrushcheva Series: The World in Words
    2008-02-29
    The election of Vladimir Putin’s longtime acolyte and handpicked successor, Dmitri Medvedev, as Russia’s president means that Putin has completed a transfer of office while retaining power. But what if the supposed puppet starts to pull the strings?... read
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  • Putin of all the Russias

    Nina L. Khrushcheva Series: A Window on Russia
    2007-10-03
    VIENNA -- For those who still wondered who Vladimir Putin is, the mystery is over. His actions this week show that he is Russia’s new autocrat. He is a Czar pure and simple.... read
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