Valery Kravchenko (Donetsk): 2014 Russia-Ukraine Crisis: Causes, Nature, Implications. Anni Kangas (Tampere): Market Civilisation Meets Economic Nationalism: The Discourse of Nation in Russia’s Modernisation. Timur Atnashev on the strange case of Russian nationalism. The introduction to Ruling Russia: Authoritarianism from the Revolution to Putin by William Zimmerman. Peter Pomerantsev on how Putin is reinventing warfare. Maria Lipman on Vladimir Medinsky, the second-rate academic who is Vladimir Putin's culture cop, nationalist and anti-European. China and Russia, best frenemies: Vladimir Putin pivots eastward — should America be worried? David Frum on what Putin wants: Respect, sure, but also money — how that shapes his relations with the West. Michael Ross and Erik Voeten on how oil wealth can make Russia and other countries less cooperative. Who cares if Putin torpedoes the Russian economy? Oligarchs, maybe; average Russians, definitely; Putin himself, not at all. Anton Nossik helped build Russia's Internet — now Putin wants to destroy it. Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Russia — and the Kremlin's TV network is in on it. The Russian strategy was intended to create chaos: Julia Ioffe and Frank Foer interview Geoffrey R. Pyatt, the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine. From NYRB, Anatol Lieven on Ukraine — the way out; and Tim Judah on Ukraine’s stalled rebellion and on looking for Ukraine. David Patrikarakos on how a collective psychosis is taking hold of Ukraine. Joshua Yaffa on the chaos engulfing eastern Ukraine. The Donetsk People's Republic is starting to smell: In Ukraine, chaos meets self-declared independence. Julia Ioffe on how Putin stirred up Donetsk, now he's leaving its people high and dry. Kiev's iconic Maidan square is now full of Cossacks, tourists, and the homeless — what happened to the protesters who wanted to reshape Ukraine's future?
