Nemtsov’s White Paper: Bombshell or Dud?

Writing in the New York Review of Books, Amy Knight called it “a devastating picture of Putin's eight years in the Kremlin.” In the Daily Mail, Jonathan Dimbleby declared that if such information was released about Britain, it “would certainly have provoked mass outrage - if not the downfall of the government. What, pray tell, is this devastating toppler of governments?

Nashi: Is It Really The End?

This year, there has been much speculation in the Russian print media about the demise of the Kremlin youth organization "Nashi." So are they dead or not?

Russian Academia Under Fire

On any given day, the Russian media is filled with reports of restaurants, clubs, factories, hospitals, schools, and apartments succumbing to fire. Sometimes it's an accident or insurance fraud. But other times, it's purely political.

The Myth of the Democratic Model

Michael McFaul is back! Stanford poli-sci prof and Commissar of Transitionology is quiet no more.

A Russia-Watcher’s Fairytale

Predicting Russia, however, is more than just an academic venture. It is a genre in and of itself. A sort of "social science fiction"; where the Socratic Method is employed to weave fanciful and farcical tales about the Great Bear.

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Cold War II

Could it be what Russians and Americans really want?

Russia’s New President … ‘Putvedev’?

Merely dismissing the recent Russian election as a Putin-orchestrated "farce" obscures what is really happening there.

The Short Happy Life of a Russian Anti-Corruption Investigator