Nina L. Khrushcheva
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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Vladimir Putin’s return to the Russian presidency has incited a new wave of popular opposition. As demands for real democratic reforms escalate, Project Syndicate commentators, from former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov to French diplomat Pierre Buhler, try to make sense of a protest movement that seemed to emerge out of nowhere.
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Mikhail Kasyanov
The Essence of Putin
MOSCOW – Few people, least of all Vladimir Putin, who plans to return to Russia’s presidency on March 4, could have imagined last December t…
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Anders Åslund
The Snow Revolution’s Orange Shadow
MOSCOW – Vladimir Putin’s regime is warning Russians that their budding “Snow Revolution” will be as big a mistake as Ukraine’s Orange Revol…
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Mischa Gabowitsch
A Strategy for Russia’s Snow Revolution
POTSDAM – Nonviolent revolutions do not always remain nonviolent, as the examples of uprisings in Egypt, Libya, and Syria in the Arab Spring…
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Andrei Piontkovsky
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…
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Esther Dyson
Peeling, Meeting, and Shopping
NEW YORK – In mid-December, while trying to understand what was happening in Russia, I checked Twitter and found a tweet that somehow signif…
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Nina L. Khrushcheva
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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Dominique Moisi
A Russian Spring?
PARIS – Russia is not Egypt. And Moscow is not on the eve of revolution as Cairo was less than a year ago. Indeed, Russia’s powerful have at…
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Sergei Guriev, Aleh Tsyvinski
Russia’s Inevitable Democratization
MOSCOW – Twenty years ago, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned, the Soviet Union ended, and Russia began an imperfect transition to …
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Pierre Buhler
Putin’s Brezhnev Syndrome
PARIS – The winner of Sunday’s legislative election in Russia was a foregone conclusion: United Russia, organized by Vladimir Putin. Likewis…
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