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Kremlin Dreams Sometimes Come True
This April, Michael Bohm, editor at the Moscow Times, published the article New Kremlin Dreamers, which questioned Russia’s stated intention of becoming an advanced industrial nation by 2020. I wasn’t...
View ArticleWhy Russia is cemented to the other BRICs
In the wake of the economic crisis in which Russia’s GDP fell by a stunning 7.9% in 2009, its status as a BRIC economy – with its connotations of promise and progress – was brought into question. After...
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Names Of The Oligarchs On A Map Of The Motherland*
Not really arguing anything in this post, just sharing some interesting stats I found about the affluent class in Russia (as compared with BRIC’s and others). First, as we know Russia is (in)famous for...
View ArticleRussia’s Economic “Stagnation” In Global Perspective
Иn the wake of the 2009 recession, declinist rhetoric has come to dominate discussion of Russia’s economic prospects. Jim O’Neill, the founder of the BRIC’s concept, has his work cut out defending...
View ArticleBRIC’s of Stability: Why Occupy Wall Street Isn’t Coming To Moscow Or Beijing
As repeatedly noted by Mark Adomanis, the Russian liberals and the Western media have predicted about 10 of the last zero Russian revolutions. Likewise, the “Jasmine Revolution” in China that was the...
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Peter Savodnik: Portrait Of A Democratic Journalist
I recently had the dubious pleasure of engaging in an extended Twitter exchange with Peter Savodnik. Peter is a consummately credentialed journalist based in New York. He is also a classical...
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Russian Journalists Are Far Safer Than Mexican Journalists, Ordinary...
One of the most common tropes against Russia is that critical (independent, democratic, etc) journalists there are dying like flies, presumably because of the “culture of impunity” created by Putin or...
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Russia’s Budget Is Getting More Transparent
Not often that you see Russia in some color other than bloody red on a world map of corruption or institutional quality. But according to the Open Budget Index (2012 results), the Russian budget is...
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