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Should Five Percent Appear Too Small: Medvedev & Russia’s Social Insurance Tax
On March 30, 2011, President Medvedev gave a speech in Magnitogorsk, where he announced a series of executive orders aimed at improving Russia’s miserable, “bad, very bad” investment climate. In an...
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Just A Man & His Will to Survive: Medvedev the Fighter?
Taking aim? On September 8th, Russia’s two most prominent Dimas (President Medvedev and Representative to NATO Rogozin) both delivered speeches in Yaroslavl at the Global Policy Forum. The theme of the...
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No Time for Obituaries: Putin’s Return in 2012
The eternal, hotly-debated question about whether or not Vladimir Putin will return to the Kremlin was answered yesterday in the affirmative. None other than Dmitri Medvedev made the announcement,...
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Exit Kudrin
In light of Aleksei Kudrin’s departure from the Ministry of Finance yesterday, I’m posting this follow-up to my initial thoughts about Russia after Putin’s return. What's so funny? Before Medvedev spit...
View ArticleHow Did So Many Kremlinologists Get It Wrong?
Are Russia-watchers guilty of over-thinking or over-hoping? Sam Greene claims to have been the “last analyst left in Moscow who actually thought that Dmitri Medvedev would stay on as president of...
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The RuNet Delusion
“If an authoritarian regime can crumble under the pressure of a Facebook group, whether its members are protesting online or in the streets, it’s not much of an authoritarian regime. The real effects...
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The Splendid Victory: Russia’s 2011 Duma Elections
The votes are in, the violations are online, and Moscow’s oppositionists are out on the streets, gathered at dawn in Kitai Gorod, chanting at cops to release their most beloved celebrity, Aleksei...
View ArticleEnding the Snow Revolution: Road Maps & Dead Ends
The first of possibly several waves of mass demonstrations has swept Russia. Yesterday, a crowd maybe as big as one-hundred thousand people gathered in downtown Moscow to protest voter fraud in the...
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Occupy Lermontov!
Yesterday, the town of Lermontov (located in Russia’s North Caucasus) experienced what some are calling “a small revolution.” As the state municipal building was preparing to close for the evening, a...
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The Moscow Mayoral Election Will Test Russia’s Internet Culture
This article was originally published on Global Voices here. When Moscow’s civil society exploded after national elections 18 months ago, pouring tens of thousands of protesters into the streets and...
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