The Russia Diary

This is what happens when Rachel Ostrow and I get together to do a paper for our Russia class... Oppa Stalin Style... (Stalin Style)  ...

This afternoon, I was at the DC protests against electoral fraud in the 4th Dec Duma elections. Around 100 people came so the turnout wasn...

A historic day today - for two reasons: 1. it is the 20th anniversary of the Soviet collapse; 2. this is the only time I will agree with Vla...

If Steve Jobs hadn't died yesterday, American news media would have been talking about the 10th anniversary of the US-led Afghan War. I ...

Just last week, started a new blog with Russia & India Report - part of the Russia Beyond the Headlines project. Called Bilateral Life ...

I've recently started taking myself more seriously as a writer. So I'm reading more, scrutinisng more and doing much better against ...

As I already covered in an earlier post , I got the chance to meet Mikhail Gorbachev on 21st March 2011, when he celebrated his 80th birthda...