Nashi is Dead! Long Live . . . ?
Update: The venerable Joera Mulders informs me that if you point your web browser to Nashi’s websiteand you get a “403 Forbidden.” It’s apparently been down for more than a day.Having gone through a few articles I saved on Nashi over the last few months, I should note organization’s demise was already in the works [...]
Russian Presidential Election: Known Knowns and Unknown Unknowns
On Sunday, by all accounts, Vladimir Putin will be elected President of the Russian Federation for a six year term with the option of running again in 2018. The polls don’t lie. The last Levada Center poll, places Putin at 66 percent with Gennady Ziuganov at a distant 15 percent, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, 8 percent, Mikhail [...]
Russian Protest Art in The Stream
Yesterday I joined Serhiy Kudelia, professor at John Hopkins University, and Vor, the leader of Voina, on The Stream, Al-Jazeera English’s daily news talk show, to discuss Voina, protest art and visual parody, and the Russian protests. See video. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Tip on Hyves Share on Linkedin Share on [...]
Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny: Uniting Nationalists and the Urban, Educated Middle Class
On December 5, the day after Russia’s Duma elections, the anti-corruption crusader and popular blogger, Alexei Navalny, told a raucous crowd, “I want to say to you: Thank you. Thank you for playing you part as a citizen. Thank you for telling these assholes, ‘We’re here!’ For telling the bearded [Electoral Commission head Vladimir] Churov [...]
Why are Russians Protesting Now?
As a day of protests against Sunday’s Duma election begins in Russia’s Far East, the big question is why are people protesting now? After all, it’s not like this is the first Russian election with shenanigans, fraud, etc, etc. It is, however, the first one when Vladimir Putin and his party, United Russia, are dropping [...]
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