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Nick Trickett
The Russian Economy: Failing To Plan, Planning to Fail
"Technological sovereignty" is word salad for partial state planning — and too little, too late.
Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan
Prison Swaps, Putin Style
More Westerners may be arrested as Putin forms a “bank” of people for future prisoner exchanges.
Sergey Radchenko
Collective Responsibility and the Slide into the Totalitarian Past
It's convenient to blame "the Russians" for failing to stop the war. But what have you done to stop it?
Leonid Gozman
The Fear Behind Vladimir Putin's Jokes
The more he jokes, and the more obscene his jokes, the more he shows what he fears.
Michele A. Berdy
All the World in One Russian Word
When the first step is the hardest — also evil, clever, daring, wild, turbulent, smart, artistic, and jaunty.
Andrei Pertsev
War in Ukraine Has Sparked a New Race to Succeed Putin
Possible candidates are either making big bellicose statements or totally silent on the war.
Michele A. Berdy
Warning: Do Not Say This in Russian
When language changes, we don't like it. But language doesn't care.
Anna Zhuk
The Ukrainian First Lady in Vogue
What was the reaction in Ukraine to Olena Zelenska's photo shoot? Not what you'd expect.
James Pearce
Explainer: What Was the 1654 Treaty of Pereyaslav?
All about the 368-year-old treaty that is so important to modern Russia's revisionist history.
Andrei Kolesnikov
Russia’s Prison Brand of Economic Self-Sufficiency
Prison labor may prove to be one of the mainstays of Russia's economic development.
Michele A. Berdy
Chowing Down the Russian Way
Judging by the language, eating the Russian way means really digging in.
Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan
The Good Engineer Zima
The Russian regime rewards engineers who keep the regime afloat, but it is a Faustian bargain.
William Alberque
Will Russia Send Nuclear Arms to Belarus?
The new missiles would extend the Russian-Belarusian range from Moldova to the Baltics.
Andrei Movchan
The Unlearned Lessons of 'Masyanya,' Episode 162
Did Oleg Kuraev's animated lesson in empathy make any difference?
Michele A. Berdy
The Russian Sedentary Diet
Losing weight the Russian way involves sitting - what could be better?
Irina Borogan
Russian Special Services: From Political to Mass Repressions
The Russian special services are using tried and true methods of intimidation and repression.
Aaron Rhodes
People of Post-Colonial Lands Should Show Solidarity with Ukraine
Why don't once-colonized nations recognize Russia and the U.S.S.R's colonial past and present?
Alexander Etkind
Beat Your Enemy, But Read His Poets
Are Russia's writers responsible for the country's imperialism and colonialism?
Michele A. Berdy
The Art of Russian Mumbling, Grumbling, and Babbling
Everyone needs to know how to grumble, lisp, burble, gurgle, growl and bellyache.
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