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James Kirchick: Vapid, Bloviating Troll 26 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
He got invited to RT to talk about Bradley Manning and his impending sentence. The gay journalist James Kirchick got invited to argue his viewpoint that Manning wa a traitor who deserved to be put to ...
Map of Natural Population Growth in the Former USSR in 2012 9 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
H/t AP for this beauty. It is for 2012. [Click to enlarge]. It speaks for itself so comprehensively that I’m not sure it’s worth commenting further on my part here. Let’s leave that to the comments ...
Russia’s Demographics Continue to Steadily Improve 6 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
Here it is, for those who read Russian. The May data also has emigration data, which is not included in the prelimary estimates – that is here. The main points to take away: Births fell 0.3% and dea...
The Russia Debate is Back From the Dead 2 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Due to the popular outcry, my prior decision to close down the Russian politics and history forum is now formally reversed. Come on people – let’s make it work. Stop spamming each other in email news...
Alexander Mercouris – An Examination of Navalny’s Trial and Conviction 31 Jul 2013 | 08:00 pm
The Western narrative on the Navalny case is that it was a selective and political prosecution on trumped up charges. I think that to a significant (but NOT full) extent that this interpretation is ba...
Why 80 Chechens can “Own” A Russian City of 40,000 People 28 Jul 2013 | 04:58 am
The commentator Дарман, who appears to be from Dagestan, argues that Chechens are quite different from the other North Caucasian nationalities. Apparently, minorities in Russia don’t like Chechens muc...
Bribery in Russia has either Recently Soared… or Plummeted 25 Jul 2013 | 12:15 am
Or neither. Well, isn’t this a useless post? I am referring to the Global Corruption Barometer released by Transparency International a couple of weeks ago, which I covered at my other blog. For the ...
The (Abortive) End of The Russia Debate 22 Jul 2013 | 08:05 am
Its failure is so stark that I hardly need post a notification on the actual site. To the extent that I visit it nowadays it is mostly just to clean spam, which is just depressing. It has not achieved...
Why Jailing Navalny is a Great Idea 19 Jul 2013 | 06:05 am
Earlier today, Navalny received a custodial sentence of five years for the theft of 15 million rubles ($500,000) worth of timber from Kirovles. It is simply not true to say that there was “no case” a...
The Navalny Verdict 18 Jul 2013 | 10:28 am
Livestream in Russian, English. He’s been found guilty, as expected. The main question is what the sentence will be: Suspended, or a real term. Here is my prediction (which on developments so far mig...
