Putin, Russia, and the moral imperative of the West
(LSE) Imagine a world stripped of the basic elements of human decency, honesty, and honour, a world where the primordial instinct of greed, accumulation, avarice, and lust for endless power trumps…
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Navalny
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Back to Square One
(Moscow-on-Thames) The dust hasn’t yet settled, but we can draw some early conclusions from today’s protests in Russia. In a nutshell, the Kremlin and the opposition are at a stalemate. I don’t…
Petrov: The perception that Putin has stayed away from the public doesn’t compare well to Navalny’s bold comeback
(AP) The return to Russia from Germany by opposition leader Alexei Navalny was marked by chaos and popular outrage, and it ended, almost predictably, with his arrest. The Jan. 17 flight…
Navalny Has Set a Damning Dilemma for Putin’s Regime
(Eurasia Daily Monitor) The decision of Russian democratic opposition leader Alexei Navalny to return to Moscow was announced on January 13 in a deliberately matter-of-fact way—and produced a full-blown political storm.…
Rogov: Navalny’s return is a brave step; Kurilla: Navalny has set the agenda
(Deutsche Welle) An arrest warrant instead of flowers. With barely enough time to leave the plane, Alexei Navalny was taken into police custody. It was a cold reception for one of the…
Greene: The signs in Russia are there—the discontent is there, the deprivation is there
(RFE/RL) When Vladimir Lenin stepped off a train at St. Petersburg’s Finland Station in April 1917, he set in motion events that would transform Russia and ultimately divide the world into…
Greene: Putin’s inability to say Navalny’s name out loud is bordering on the absurd
(RFE/RL) As he does, Russian President Vladimir Putin turned to a Soviet-era pop culture reference to get his message across at one point in his 4 1/2-hour annual press conference on December 17,…
Rogov: From time to time, somebody is poisoned by groups close to the Russian government. This is the system, an institution, not an accident.
(Washington Post) MOSCOW — Vladlen Los sat in a chair outside Room 239 of the Xander Hotel. It was midmorning on Aug. 20 in the Siberian city of Tomsk. The lawyer…
Rogov: Rastorguev opens politicians like tin cans. In his frame we see their true faces
(Haaretz) The producer of a documentary on Putin’s critic who was poisoned in August explains why he found Navalny as great a mystery as the Russian president himself – and how…
Greene: If you see Navalny’s poisoning as a major shift, you haven’t been paying attention
(Foreign Policy) In the three weeks since Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny fell violently ill on a flight to Moscow, any pretense that this was anything other than a state-sponsored assassination…