Russia
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
#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
Election Hardball, Kremlin Style
In advance of Sunday's parliamentary ballot, the pro-Putin camp is cracking down hard on independent election monitors.
BY JULIA IOFFE | DECEMBER 2, 2011
Putin and the Boo-boys
A new wave of anti-Putin sentiment is sweeping Russia, but with the once-and-future president still loved by more than two-thirds of the population, there's little hope for change.
BY JULIA IOFFE | NOVEMBER 29, 2011
The Axis of No
How the Arab Spring made accidental allies out of Moscow and Beijing.
BY DMITRI TRENIN | NOVEMBER 23, 2011
First, They Came for the Journalists
One year after Oleg Kashin was brutally attacked in Moscow, the noted journalist looks back on the clownishly futile investigations -- and the climate of fear that threatens his profession.
BY JULIA IOFFE | NOVEMBER 9, 2011
Meet the New Putin, Same as the Old Putin
As the de facto president seeks to reassure foreign investors, it's clear that everyone's a little on edge.
BY JULIA IOFFE | OCTOBER 7, 2011
Twilight of a Seat-Warmer
Medvedev's worst week ever just keeps on going.
BY JULIA IOFFE | OCTOBER 4, 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
Disaster Politics
The real story behind Putin's return to the throne: Russia is headed for economic catastrophe, and nothing he does can stop it.
BY JULIA IOFFE | SEPTEMBER 27, 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
Abkhazia's Independence Farce
The push for Abkhaz statehood makes a mockery of international law -- and recognition would represent a chilling validation of ethnic cleansing.
BY ANDREI ILLARIONOV | SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
The Kremlin's Spin Machine … and Me
My adventures on Russia's first televised political debate in a decade.
BY JULIA IOFFE | SEPTEMBER 6, 2011
Ten More WikiLeaks You Missed
From the Indian April Fools cable to Hanoi's sexy discos to China's dangerous nuclear plants, Julian Assange's hits just keep on coming.
AUGUST 30, 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
She's Number 3!
After a shady city council election, St. Petersburg's deeply unpopular governor appears poised to become the third-most powerful politician in Russia. How on earth did this happen?
BY JULIA IOFFE | AUGUST 24, 2011
Guns of August
One photographer's view of the 2008 Georgia-Russia war.
BY JARED P. MOOSSY | AUGUST 19, 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
Days of Freedom
Images of the birth of a new Russia.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY LUCIAN PERKINS | AUGUST 18, 2011
Reset This
What's behind the ginned-up crisis in U.S.-Russia relations?
BY SAMUEL CHARAP | AUGUST 12, 2011
Moscow's Silly Season
If America thinks its presidential campaign is nuts, just check out the bikini carwashes, arm-wrestling, and synchronized dance moves that go into the Russian election.
AUGUST 11, 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
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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