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February 03, 2013 10:50 AM The Truth About Putinism

h/t Wayne Curtis via Andrew SullivanOrwell wrote: One rapid but fairly sure guide to the social atmosphere of a country is the parade-step of its army. A military parade is really a kind of ritual dance, something like a...

By Mark Kleiman

December 26, 2012 11:00 AM Russia's New 'Good News — or Else' Policy Idea

Tim Frye sends along this op-ed from Michael Bohm in the Moscow Times: State Duma Deputy Oleg Mikheyev from the Just Russia party came up with an original idea to lift the spirits of people depressed by all of the...

By Andrew Gelman

August 16, 2012 10:14 AM Pussy Riot - In Their Own Words

While Americans continue to fret about whether Paul Ryan will help or hurt Mitt Romney’s presidential chances, a remarkable drama is unfolding in the Russian political sphere. Three members of the Russian “feminist punk-rock collective” Pussy Riot have been on...

By Joshua Tucker

March 21, 2012 11:25 AM Integrity, in Germany and Russia

Joachim Gauck has been elected President of Germany. Very much against Angela Merkel’s wishes, but the two previous Presidents, unremarkable warhorses from her own CDU party, both resigned in disgrace and Gauck became inevitable. He’s the dream candidate to everybody...

By James Wimberley

March 06, 2012 12:30 PM Russia 2012 Presidential Election Post-Election Report

Displaying a predictive ability at a level of which my Americanist colleague can only dream, I think it is safe to say that most of the claims I made in my pre-election report on the 2012 Russian Presidential election have...

By Joshua Tucker