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Andrei Piontkovsky

Andrei Piontkovsky is a Russian political scientist and a visiting fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC.

Commentaries by Andrei Piontkovsky

  • Newsart for The Four Stages of Putinism

    The Four Stages of Putinism

    MOSCOW – In 1970, Soviet dissident Andrei Amalrik observed in Will the Soviet Union Survive until 1984? that “all totalitarian regimes grow …

  • Newsart for La Nausée Russe

    La Nausée Russe

    MOSCOW – The history of successive authoritarian regimes in Russia reveals a recurring pattern: they do not die from external blows or domes…

  • Newsart for The Caucasian Dark Circle

    The Caucasian Dark Circle

    MOSCOW – The Russian authorities have recently begun showing off the massive security measures being implemented ahead of the 2014 Winter Ol…

  • Newsart for The Putin Parody

    The Putin Parody

    MOSCOW – The history of authoritarian rule in Russia displays a certain depressing regularity. Such regimes rarely perish from external shoc…

  • Newsart for Who’s Who on Putin’s Payroll?

    Who’s Who on Putin’s Payroll?

    MOSCOW – Germany’s ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is a legend in Russia. He serves Gazprom’s interests for a measly couple of million euros…

  • Georgia Splits the Kremlin

    MOSCOW – Dmitry Medvedev inherited the post of President of the Russian Federation from Vladimir Putin, and while Putin moved down the pecki…

  • Russia’s Ukrainian Path to the Future

    MOSCOW – Russia and the West are losing each other yet again. The magnetic attraction and repulsion between the two has been going on for ce…

  • China’s Threat to Russia

    Last week, Russia and China held joint military maneuvers in the presence of both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Hu …

  • The Paranoid Style in Russian Politics

    An old saying in politics in Moscow is that relations between the United States and Russia are always better when a Republican rules in the …

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  • The Four Stages of Putinism

    Cox Andy: Why do people persist in describing state capitalist regimes as 'communist'? I think there's an unspoken, unacknowledged collusion afoot here: To proponents of state capitalism - eg Leninists, Castroi…

  • The Four Stages of Putinism

    Leo Arouet: LA Rusia de hoy no permite líderes mesiánicos, sino un presidente que promueva la democracia y proteja al ciudadano medio. Basta mencionar que el propio gas que exportan con la empresa Gazprom , no cu…