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Anatoli Lieven: “What is in fact better: authoritarian control…
Sean's Russia Blog | September 17th 2008 by Sean
CNN Chops up Putin
Sean's Russia Blog | September 11th 2008 by Sean
There was a lot of hooping and hollering about what Vesti did to that interview from Fox News. If you think that was good, check out the number CNN did to Putin’s interview. Yasha Lavine breaks it down clean in “Is CNN Getting Kicked read more
US Candidates Barely Mention Russia
Sean's Russia Blog | September 5th 2008 by Sean
The Democratic and Republican conventions are over. Thank god. All the political pomp, demigod worship, endless biographical tales, self-congratulation, repetitions of God Bless America, convention protesters and chants of U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A hav read more
The Medvedev Doctrine
Sean's Russia Blog | September 3rd 2008 by Sean
On Friday, Tbilisi broke diplomatic ties with Moscow in protest to statements that Russia plans to absorb South Ossetia and Abkhazia in “several years.” Moscow responded by closing its embassy in Tbilisi. The EU also stepped up warnings read more
Is Putin a Closet Republican?
Sean's Russia Blog | August 31st 2008 by Sean
If Putin was an American politician, what would he be? He is conservative, deeply religious, a patriot, and strong partisan for Russian traditions. Given this, I doubt we would have seen Putin strutting about on the DNC’s American Idol-esque read more
Vesti Translates Fox News
Sean's Russia Blog | August 30th 2008 by Sean
Here is how the Fox News interview with that American-Ossetian girl and her aunt is being reported in the Russian news. I think even non-Russian speakers will get a sense of the hatchet job done on this just from the translator’s tone and cou read more
Cold War II as Comfortable Shoes
Sean's Russia Blog | August 29th 2008 by Sean
A colleague sent me this cartoon from the 1 September issue of the New Yorker. It’s quite an appropriate addendum to “Loving Cold War II.” read more
The G8 was Boring
Sean's Russia Blog | July 10th 2008 by Sean
It was Dmitri Medvedev’s coming out party to the other leaders of the G-8. It seems that he didn’t fail to impress. Bush called him a “smart guy,” which should apply to pretty much everyone when next to the outgoing Americ read more
Death of the eXile?
Sean's Russia Blog | June 10th 2008 by Sean
Last week, the Moscow Times reported on eXile getting called for a meet and greet at Russia’s Federal Service for Mass Media, Telecommunications and the Protection of Cultural Heritage. Now Mark gives us the lowdown in “A Troublesome Visi read more
Geopolitical Imbalances
Sean's Russia Blog | May 10th 2008 by Sean
A state’s great power status resides in the flow of cheap oil, argues Michael Klare, author of the newly published Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy. With oil prices hitting another high of $123 this week, and pred read more
Recommended Reading
Sean's Russia Blog | April 22nd 2008 by Sean
Two of my favorite magazines, the London Review of Books and Vanity Fair, have two must read articles on Russia in their recent additions. Vanity Fair’s annual “Green Issue” is full of amazing articles, particularly Phillippe Sands read more
“Avoiding this heap of memes”
Sean's Russia Blog | April 7th 2008 by Sean
Michael Idov’s “The Hibernation” has received cheers and jeers from SRB readers. One of the issues Idov’s article raises is the difficultly in reporting on Russia. In Idov’s view the real challenge is to talk about Russi read more
Litvinenko Murder Saga Continues
Sean's Russia Blog | April 3rd 2008 by Sean
The recent flurry in the comments section over the polonium poisoning of Aleksandr Litvinenko has inspired me to revisit the issue. When I last left the case, it was reveled that Litvinenko was on retainer with MI6. Andrei Lugovoi, Britain’s ch read more
Discussing the “Dark Double”
Sean's Russia Blog | March 17th 2008 by Sean
Washington Profile has an interesting interview with Professor David Foglesong about his book The American Mission and the ‘Evil Empire’: The Crusade for a ‘Free Russia’ since 1881. I reviewed Foglesong’s book here a f read more
Cracking Open the Kremlin
Sean's Russia Blog | March 7th 2008 by Sean
The BBC World Service has done a number of radio documentaries on Russia and Putin. The Kremlin and the World is a four part series on Russia’s relationship with its “near abroad,” energy politics, Europe, and the United States. Th read more
Mapping Freedom
Sean's Russia Blog | January 17th 2008
Russia is not free. That is the conclusion Freedom House has made in its new report “Freedom in the World 2008.” According to its scorecard, Russia received a “6″ in Political Rights and a “5″ in Civil Liberties. read more
Social Science Fiction
Sean's Russia Blog | December 29th 2007 by Sean
My first article for the eXile is now online. Here is an excerpt from “A Russian-Watcher’s Fairytale“: Russia and the world were stunned by the assassination of Vladimir Putin as he walked out of a midnight mass at the Christ the read more
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