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Articles by Nina Khrushcheva

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What Does Putin Really Want in Ukraine?

Confusion, confusion, confusion! This is how Russian President Vladimir Putin, increasingly isolated from Western conversations, keeps the world on its...
opinion Nina Khrushcheva

Putin's Pompous and Potemkin Olympic Games

Putin's Russia is weak, tawdry and corrupt — and does not deserve to be the Olympic host.
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Power Without Purpose

It is far from clear what Russia wants to become: a reinvented empire, a "sovereign democracy" or something else.
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Can Navalny Save Russia?

The original phrase that every nation gets the government it deserves was directed at Russia. But do Russians really deserve Putinism?
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Vladimir Putin's Managed Love Life and Divorce

From Russia with love? Not in Vladimir Putin's Russia.
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When Alienated Immigrants Turn to Terrorism

When suspected terrorists are Muslim, they are considered agents of a larger conspiracy.
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Getting France to Recognize Russia's Superiority

The Depardieu PR coup helped Putin accomplish something no tsar could ever do.
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Putin's Final Act

Russians are usually patient and slow to rebel, but once they have turned on their leader, they don't stop until he is out.
opinion Nina Khrushcheva

The Imperial Putin

The only vote that matters in Russia's 2012 presidential election is now in, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has cast it for himself. He will be...
opinion Nina Khrushcheva

The Walls of August

History's milestones are rarely so neatly arrayed as they are this summer. Fifty years ago this month, the Berlin Wall was born. And 20 years ago this...
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Medvedev's Snake Oil

In a recent interview to the Financial Times, President Dmitry Medvedev proclaimed that he wants a second term in office following the 2012 election...
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Trying to Modernize With Russian 'Tribesman'

President Dmitry Medvedev’s decision to fire Moscow’s long-entrenched mayor is the most decisive move he has made in his presidency. Is it really part...