Eastern Europe
Vaclav Havel, Man of Whimsy
In memory of a natural dissident -- and an accidental president.
BY JEFFREY GEDMIN | JAN/FEB 2012
Project Prokhorov
From the right angle, the Russian oligarch almost looks like a real presidential candidate. He's not.
BY SHAUN WALKER | DECEMBER 14, 2011
To the Barricades
From Tahrir Square to Wall Street to the Kremlin, 2011 was a year when politics was conducted in the street.
DECEMBER 14, 2011
Game Change
From reciprocal nuclear reductions to making nice with Iran, 5 bold moves that could change the world.
BY STEPHEN M. WALT | DECEMBER 13, 2011
Next Year, in Review
From the fall of Ahmadinejad, Assad, Castro, and Chavez to the rise of cyberattacks -- the top 13 stories that could dominate the headlines in 2012.
BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | DECEMBER 12, 2011
The Decembrists
No one's quite sure what's going on in the streets of Moscow -- or what to call it -- but it's growing and powerful ... and could all end badly.
BY JULIA IOFFE | DECEMBER 9, 2011
Now Hear This, Moscow
It’s time for President Obama to talk tough about Russia’s rigged parliamentary elections.
BY DAVID J. KRAMER | DECEMBER 8, 2011
Soviet Streets
Want to know what Eastern Europe is thinking these days? Check out the writing on the wall.
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
The newspaper article that has shaken Ugandan politics to its core
BY JACKEE BATANDA
One-by-one, lawmakers nudge Obama on Guantanamo
BY JOHN HUDSON
The real-life war game that almost led to nuclear armageddon
BY NATE JONES
Rand Paul: My colleagues just voted to arm the allies of al Qaeda
BY JOHN HUDSON
Attention: Reforming U.S. food aid will not threaten the Merchant Marine
BY JOHN NORRIS
GeoGuessr: Where in the (Googleable) world are you?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
Why Barack Obama has been too quick to embrace Burma
BY JOSHUA KURLANTZICK
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