A light snow covers Moscow, subzero temperatures provide bright sunshine and Jingle Bells wafts through malls filled with happy shoppers. And, befitting, the holiday season, Russian politicians and American parents are acting out a real life version of Charles Dickens’ 1843 classic, “A Christmas Carol.” But this is no high school play. This is…geopolitics! Guess […]
A Kremlin Christmas Carol: Russia’s Scrooge Against The Orphans?
Posted December 22nd, 2012 at 1:11 pm (UTC+0)
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Russian Conservatives See ‘Foreign Agents’ and ‘Treason’ Behind Social Change
Posted December 11th, 2012 at 6:12 am (UTC+0)
Ashley, an American friend, and I were walking on a bridge over the Moscow River to the “Inostranii Agent” or “Foreign Agent” party. To dress the part, I wore my trench coat. Our destination: Red October, the rambling red brick industrial space that has morphed in recent years from Soviet chocolate factory to hipster hangout. […]
Russia’s Winter Transport: From the Troika to Rubber Tires
Posted December 3rd, 2012 at 9:46 pm (UTC+0)
It snowed in Russia last week. (Yawn. What else is new?) But Russia no longer is Dr. Zhivago country, a rural place where troika sleighs slide smoothly across white, wintry landscapes. Modern Russians have a deep, passionate, often unrequited, love affair with rubber tires. Last weekend, on the highway between Moscow and St. Petersburg, the […]
