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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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