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Andrei Piontkovsky
Andrei Piontkovsky is a Russian political scientist and a visiting fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC.
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La Nausée Russe
Andrei Piontkovsky Series: A Window on Russia 2012-01-30Authoritarian regimes in Russia tend to die not from external blows or domestic insurrections, but rather from a strange internal disease resembling Jean-Paul Sartre's existential nausea. Today, Vladimir Putin’s regime is atrophying from that same strange disease, despite – or because of – the seemingly impermeable wall that it spent years constructing around itself.... read Comments: 1 Recommended: 0 Read: 4108
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The Caucasian Dark Circle
Andrei Piontkovsky Series: A Window on Russia 2011-05-31
The Russian authorities have recently begun showing off the massive security measures being implemented ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. They have good reason to be worried – and not only for the safety of athletes and spectators.... read Comments: 1 Recommended: 1 Read: 9920
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The Putin Parody
Andrei Piontkovsky Series: A Window on Russia 2010-03-29In just ten years, Vladimit Putin's regime, which was consciously designed by its image-makers as a simulacrum incorporating all the aspects of power in Russian history, has also run through all the classical missteps of that history. Indeed, Putinism now seems like a trite parody of all of them.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 11178
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Who’s Who on Putin’s Payroll?
Andrei Piontkovsky Series: A Window on Russia 2009-05-29
The role of Germany’s ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder as a paid proxy for Russia is well known. But many American luminaries, including Henry Kissinger and James A. Baker, have gotten in on the act as well, offering the Obama administration policy advice that is just what the Kremlin ordered.... read Comments: 1 Recommended: 0 Read: 15350
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Georgia Splits the Kremlin
Andrei Piontkovsky Series: A Window on Russia 2008-08-29Neither Vladimir Putin nor Dmitry Medvedev wants to invade Tbilisi, much as they may despise Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. But their stance is being increasingly challenged by nationalists who care not a whit about Russian plutocrats vast personal property holdings in the West.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 20473
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Russia’s Ukrainian Path to the Future
Andrei Piontkovsky Series: A Window on Russia 2008-06-30For Russia's leaders, it is a matter of life and death that ex-Soviet countries that chose a different model of development – Ukraine being chief among them – should never become attractive to ordinary Russians. But Russia's rejection of Ukraine's pro-Western model is placing its own future its peril.... read Comments: 1 Recommended: 0 Read: 18593
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The Borgia Candidate for Russia’s Presidency
Andrei Piontkovsky Series: A Window on Russia 2007-08-30Alexander Lugovoi may be a wanted man in Britain, but he has become a hero at home. That is not so surprising in today's Russia, given the striking similiarities between his career and that of Vladimir Putin.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 17997
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China’s Threat to Russia
Andrei Piontkovsky Series: The World in Words 2007-08-24Thirty-six years ago, Richard Nixon and Mao Zedong turned world politics upside down, as both America and China realized that it was the Soviet Union, and not each other, that posed the greater threat. Now, Vladimir Putin needs to recognize that antagonizing the West is a foolish strategy, because the greatest threat to Russia comes from the East.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 22344
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The Paranoid Style in Russian Politics
Andrei Piontkovsky Series: A Window on Russia 2006-11-30An old saying in politics in Moscow is that relations between the United States and Russia are always better when a Republican rules in the White House. We are statesmen, and the Republicans are statesmen. Because we both believe in power, it is easy for the two of us to understand each other. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 20158
