Nina L. Khrushcheva is a professor in the Graduate Program of International Affairs at the New School in New York, and a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute, where she directs the Russia Project. She previously taught at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and is the author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics.
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Nina L. Khrushcheva
Commentaries by Nina L. Khrushcheva
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The Boston Paradox
MOSCOW – Whose fault is it that the Boston Marathon was bombed? Is Russia to blame for 250 years of trying to incorporate the Muslim North C…
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The Czar of the French
MOSCOW – Vladimir Putin has finally done it. Russia has been vying for the West’s esteem for centuries, with approval by the French – a soug…
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The History of Russia’s Future
MOSCOW – Strategic vision has never been a Russian attribute, and it certainly was absent in 2012. Russia’s vast territory continually seems…
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Putin’s Final Act
MOSCOW – Vladimir Putin’s new presidential term is just beginning, but it increasingly looks like the beginning of the end. Whenever Russia’…
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Russia’s Bo-Toxic President Returns
MOSCOW – When a tsar is treated with mockery, rather than regarded with awe, it is time for him to consider retirement, or to prepare for a …
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The Eternal Putin
NEW YORK – The only vote that matters in Russia’s 2012 presidential election is now in, and Vladimir Putin has cast it for himself. He will …
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The Walls of August
MOSCOW – History’s milestones are rarely so neatly arrayed as they are this summer. Fifty years ago this month, the Berlin Wall was born. Af…
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Will the Meek Inherit Russia?
MOSCOW – In a recent interview, Russia’s President Dmitri Medvedev proclaimed that he wants a second term in office following the 2012 elect…
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Toppling Russia’s Modernizers
MOSCOW – Russian President Dmitri Medvedev’s decision to fire Moscow’s long entrenched mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, is the most decisive move he has…
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The Cruelty of Chance
MOSCOW – In Russia, somewhere behind every event lurks the question: Who is to blame? In the tragedy that claimed the lives of Polish Presid…
The Boston Paradox
Michael Montes Schütte: You’re trying too hard to link the attacks to Russia. A very narrow vision of extremists. Could you be more vague??
The Boston Paradox
Ray Halpin: "...the summary condemnation of Muslims in America..." When you generalise in such a misleading way, your readers might assume that the rest of your argument is just as misleading. Muslims in Amer…