Russian Adoptions, Financial Skulduggery, and National Pride
Vladimir Putin has said he’ll sign a bill from Russia’s parliament that bars Americans from adopting Russian children;…
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Great, Russia’s Crops Just Failed
While everyone else was worrying about hurricanes, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization quietly published its own…
What Does Pussy Riot Mean in Russian?
How does a protest that wouldn't turn a head in the West manage to distract Putin, unnerve the Orthodox church and pick at the scab of Russia's gender politics? A Western scholar just back from Russia explains the Pussy Riot phenomenon.
Pussy Riot and Russia’s Deep State
Like Madonna and Bjork, I’ve been following the trial of Russia’s Pussy Riot, an all-female punk band that…
Two Russian Films Give Differing Views of Motherland
"Khodorkovsky" and "Hipsters," two wildly different films currently making rounds of U.S., suggest that each step forward in Russia is greeted with one step back.
Russian Gas and the Cost of Germany’s Energy Revolution
Doing deals with the Russians to put a pipe under the North Sea gives Germany some flexibility in its post-nuclear future, but at what price?
Contending With Afghan Heroin (And How Not To)
European governments have taken two divergent paths in dealing with the resurrected flow of narcotics from Afghanistan, legalization and an American-style war on drugs.
Stalin’s Revival in Russia
Russia wrestles with rehabilitating its great Soviet-era wartime leader and homicidal maniac.