Tag Archives: Foreign Policy
Bears in a Honey Trap
I have a piece out today in Foreign Policy about the honeypot the Russian opposition has got its paws in, and why Russians don’t care about sex tapes. At all. The phone call came in the middle of the night. … Continue reading
Jump-starting Russia's protest movement
I have a piece out in Foreign Policy today about FAR, an automotive rights group in Russia that has become a model for how civil society could work here. Traveling through early 19th-century America, French intellectual Alexis de Tocqueville noted, “In … Continue reading
Chicken: Russian Central Election Committee chair asks for a friendlier journalist to interview him on the air
Today, I was supposed to go on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to participate in a show called “Face to Face,” in which one Russian and one foreign journalist interview a local bigwig. Because some key regional elections were last weekend … Continue reading
I'm back; here's why I was away
Hello, dear readers. I am back! Apologies for not posting recently. I’ve been snowed under with several longer-form stories, two of which are out. First, an analysis of President Dmitry Medvedev’s state of the union-type of address last Thursday to … Continue reading
Mock elections result in mock revolution
Earlier this week, I had a piece in Foreign Policy about the disputed regional elections of October 11 (they of the George Will campaign ads). It outlines how widespread reports of fraud led to the walk out and week-long boycott … Continue reading
