REGIONAL EYE
A Window on Russia
“A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma” – so Winston Churchill once described Russia. Subsequent efforts at understanding that huge and complex country have not made it much more transparent. But Project Syndicate’s special monthly column on Russian affairs offers readers a clear-eyed view.
Project Syndicate's monthly commentaries on Russian affairs and Russian life, edited by the historian and political commentator, Nina Khrushcheva, make the politics, culture, and economy of this often murky country explicable to an outside audience. Written primarily by eminent Russians, they present Russian society "from the inside," delivering to readers the people and ideas that will shape Russia in the months and years ahead.
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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: 3973
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Russia’s Inevitable Democratization
Sergei Guriev and Aleh Tsyvinski Series: A Window on Russia 2011-12-30Twenty years ago, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned, the Soviet Union ended, and Russia began an imperfect transition to democratic capitalism. And yet the recent protests – somewhat similar to those that preceded the Soviet collapse – provide grounds for cautious optimism about the future.... read Comments: 2 Recommended: 0 Read: 8765
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Integrating Russia’s Post-Imperium
Dmitri Trenin Series: A Window on Russia 2011-11-02
Twenty years after the loss of its twentieth-century empire, Russia is ready to move toward a new kind of integration with its ex-provinces. This is not a threat; rather, economic integration is a test of how much Russia has learned about the world since 1991, and how much more modern it has become as a result.... read Comments: 1 Recommended: 0 Read: 9389
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No Country for Young Oligarchs
Alexander Etkind Series: A Window on Russia 2011-10-05This past June, Mikhail Prokhorov, one of Russia's richest men, agreed to lead a political party to contest December’s parliamentary elections, seeming to believe that his business experience would boost his political prospects. He was wrong.... read Comments: 6 Recommended: 0 Read: 10220
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The Eternal Putin
Nina L. Khrushcheva Series: A Window on Russia 2011-09-30
The sad truth is that, in Russia, history does indeed repeat itself, but, in a twist on Karl Marx’s dictum, as tragedy and farce at once. That principle will be on full display in 2012, when Vladimir Putin returns to the presidency.... read Comments: 2 Recommended: 0 Read: 11677
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Getting to “Yes” on Missile Defense
Richard Weitz Series: A Window on Russia 2011-08-17Russian officials need to retreat from their politically impossible demand for legally binding limitations on US ballistic missile defense (BMD), and should instead consider cooperating on concrete BMD projects. Some of Russia’s BMD-related concerns can be addressed through mutually agreed transparency and confidence-building initiatives.... read Comments: 4 Recommended: 0 Read: 9106
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Look East, Russia
Sergei Karaganov Series: A Window on Russia 2011-07-22
While Russia needs to integrate itself with Europe’s remaining islands of innovation (Germany, above all), it is the growth potential of the Asia-Pacific region that will determine the country’s future. But Russia has yet to devise a long-term and comprehensive Asian strategy.... read Comments: 4 Recommended: 0 Read: 14189
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Will the Meek Inherit Russia?
Nina L. Khrushcheva Series: A Window on Russia 2011-06-30In his decade in power, Vladimir Putin has consolidated and strengthened the security forces, intimidated and jailed opponents, and muzzled the media and courts. But if he doesn’t step down or aside so that Russia can move forward, the system he has created may turn his own methods against him.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 1 Read: 12503
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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: 9863
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