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Showing posts with label Vladimir Putin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vladimir Putin. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Putin's Grand Offensive Against the West and What We Must Do About It - Part 1

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by Nomad In a piece for Foreign Affairs ,  Michael Anthony McFaul , the US ambassador to Russia between 2012 and 2014, offers us s...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Fall of the Emigre: A Second Look at the Mysterious Death of Mikhail Lesin

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by Nomad For those who appreciate a conspiracy theory, the baffling death of Mikhail Lesin is straight out of a John le Carré spy n...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Czar Vladimir: How Putin Wasted Russia's Best Chance for a Liberal Democracy 2 / 3

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by Nomad In Part One of this three-part series, we examined how the fall of the Soviet Union should have provided Russia with its best...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

The Browder Affair and the Death of Russian Economic Reform 3/3

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by Nomad Part One Part Two In this final installment of the series, we examine how foreign investor Browder was about to find out th...
Saturday, February 7, 2015

The Browder Affair and the Death of Russian Economic Reform 2/3

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 by Nomad Part One  of this series In Part two, we pick up the story of the crusader investor, William Browder . As an activist sharehol...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Russian Governor Decides Banning a Word is One Way to Deal with Economy in Free Fall

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by Nomad When you happen to live in a country where the media is under the near-absolute control of the government, how would you know w...
Thursday, July 31, 2014

Has GOP Vitriol Against President Obama Undermined Diplomacy and Emboldened Putin?

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by Nomad If Putin doesn't seem very worried about President Obama's warnings against Russian new expansionist policies, it sho...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Sarah Palin vs. Albert Einstein

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by Nomad I saw Palin was criticizing Obama's dress sense the other day.   “People are looking at Putin as one who wrestles be...
Monday, February 17, 2014

The Long Russian Winter of Vladimir Putin

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by Nomad Russian President Vladimir Putin may not be as popular as he once was. Of late his policies both internationally and domestical...