Eastern Europe
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CAPTIONS BY ALEXIS ZIMBERG, NICHOLAS VAN BEEK | DECEMBER 6, 2011
Northern Distribution Nightmare
Tensions in Pakistan are running high. So, to resupply U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Washington’s having to cut deals with some very unsavory regimes.
BY DAVID TRILLING | DECEMBER 6, 2011
#OccupyMoscow
Protesters crying foul, armoured vehicles in the streets -- is this what an election victory looks like in Putin's Russia?
BY JULIA IOFFE | DECEMBER 6, 2011
The Anti-Putin Brigade
Portraits of Russia's would-be revolutionaries -- and their intimate thoughts on Vladimir Putin and the country's dark political future.
PHOTOS BY KIRILL NIKITENKO | DECEMBER 5, 2011
The Axis of No
How the Arab Spring made accidental allies out of Moscow and Beijing.
BY DMITRI TRENIN | NOVEMBER 23, 2011
Building a Better Turkey
Anatolia is booming, but some Turks are finding that their country’s new model for prosperity is rigged.
BY PIOTR ZALEWSKI | NOVEMBER 23, 2011
Burning for the Cause
From Tunisia to Tibet, self-immolation is now -- tragically -- back in vogue as a dramatic means of protest. But does it really work?
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | NOVEMBER 17, 2011
Do Graves of Dictators Really Become Shrines?
A tour of contentious burials from Qaddafi to Hitler.
BY URI FRIEDMAN | OCTOBER 26, 2011
Der Pizza-Präsident
Herman Cain may not want to talk about the world, but the world sure is talking about him.
BY URI FRIEDMAN | OCTOBER 19, 2011
The End of Ukraine's Golden Girl?
After a bizarre show trial, Yulia Tymoshenko is going to jail. But it may be her country that suffers.
BY DAVID L. STERN | OCTOBER 13, 2011
Cheer Up, Little Dima
It could be worse, Medvedev. At least you made the country better -- and that's more than the next president can say.
BY STEPHEN SESTANOVICH | SEPTEMBER 29, 2011
The Return of the King
It's official: Vladimir Putin is Russia's once and future president. So how come we're surprised all over again?
BY JULIA IOFFE | SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
You Should Be Ashamed!
Russian democracy, civil society, and economy may all look bad from the outside. But to hear Putin talk, it’s the West that should be embarrassed.
BY JULIA IOFFE | SEPTEMBER 23, 2011
Death of a Peacemaker
One by one, the people Russia needs the most are being killed off. Meet the most recent casualty.
BY ANNA NEMTSOVA | AUGUST 29, 2011
AgitProps
The Soviet era in Russia was a period of economic stagnation, political oppression -- and really gorgeous vacuum cleaners. A look at the space-age design that characterized those years, from the new book Made in Russia.
AUGUST 25, 2011
Russia's Big Backyard
A grand tour of the stunningly diverse former Soviet states.
CAPTIONS BY SUZANNE MERKELSON | AUGUST 19, 2011
The Lost Lessons of Freedom
The march toward openness and democracy in the Soviet Union began under my great-grandfather, Nikita Khrushchev, flowered under Mikhail Gorbachev, and has nearly been erased in Vladimir Putin's Russia.
BY NINA L. KHRUSHCHEVA | AUGUST 19, 2011
Surreal Politik
Russia enters its political silly season a little early. But what do all the bikini babes and music video hymns to Putin really tell us about a system gone horribly, horribly wrong?
BY JULIA IOFFE | AUGUST 11, 2011
What Was at Stake in 1962?
A closer look at the nuclear stockpiles of the world's two superpowers as the Cuban Missile Crisis began.
BY RACHEL DOBBS | JULY 17, 2011
A Farewell to Russia
Democracy may not be the stuff of Viktor Yanukovich's dreams, but the Ukrainian president is quietly strengthening ties with the European Union.
BY RAJAN MENON | JULY 12, 2011
Bad Times in Belarus
Could protests and a lousy economy topple dictator Aleksandr Lukashenko? Or are his thugs just too efficient?
BY SHAUN WALKER | JULY 8, 2011
Hanging Chads in Tirana
Are there lessons from Bush v. Gore for Albania?
BY JAMES A. BAKER III | JUNE 30, 2011
After the Fall
The 15 countries of the former Soviet Union have taken radically different political paths over the last two decades.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JUNE 24, 2011
Empty Words
When are Westerners going to learn that reform talk is cheap in the Kremlin?
BY JULIA IOFFE | JUNE 21, 2011
Three Days in Foros
In August 1991, Soviet hardliners held Mikhail Gorbachev captive at a Crimean resort in a last-ditch effort to save the crumbling Soviet empire. Anatoly Chernyaev, Gorbachev's foreign policy advisor was there when it happened. In this excerpt from the diary he kept at the time -- newly translated into English -- he tells the story of the coup attempt that destroyed the USSR.
BY ANATOLY CHERNYAEV | JUNE 21, 2011
Postcards from Hell, 2011
Images from the world's most failed states.
BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | JUNE 20, 2011
Fading Legacy
Yelena Bonner and Andrei Sakharov were giants. Why do so few Russians remember them?
BY DAVID E. HOFFMAN | JUNE 20, 2011
Meltdown
For the first time, Boris Yeltsin's right-hand man tells the inside story of the coup that killed glasnost -- and changed the world.
BY GENNADY BURBULIS WITH MICHELE A. BERDY | JULY/AUGUST 2011
Can Egypt's Islamist finance minister cut a deal with the IMF?
BY DAVID KENNER
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Odierno: Syrian rebels will prevail, but sequester makes U.S. intervention risky
BY KEVIN BARON
Time to bring the nukes back to South Korea
BY BENNETT RAMBERG
Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun
BY ELIAS GROLL
Does this woman look like she'd be a good president of Bulgaria?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
U.N. investigator on Syria: Out over her skis yet again?
BY JOHN HUDSON
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