Aristidis Tsatsos (Humboldt): The Geopolitical Role of Orthodox Russia within a Planetary Context: A Hellenic Perspective? From New Left Review, Tom Parfitt interviews Gleb Pavlovsky on Putin’s world outlook. Peter Pomerantsev on Russia’s ideology: There is no truth. Roberto Orsi on the demonisation of Putin. Putin’s coup: Ben Judah on how the Russian leader used the Ukraine crisis to consolidate his dictatorship. Matthew Luxmoore on how Russia's publishing industry is churning out revisionist histories. Daniel Drezner on Mary Sarotte’s The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall, the book that will haunt Vladimir Putin as long as he’s in power. Timothy Snyder on Putin’s new nostalgia. Ilya B. Voskoboynikov (HSE) and Laura Solanko (BOFIT): When High Growth is Not Enough: Rethinking Russia's Pre-Crisis Economic Performance. From TNR, the Russian sanctions are working: Maria Snegovaya on how Putin can't keep buying popularity; and Julia Ioffe on how Russia's currency is plummeting and Putin's billionaires are cannibalizing each other. How he and his cronies stole Russia: Anne Applebaum reviews Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? by Karen Dawisha. Linda Kinstler on how Russia's currency crashed because Vladimir Putin put his cronies before his people. A look at why the Russian economy is melting down. Sorry, Putin — Russia’s economy is doomed. Checkmate, Putin — Russia’s economy is stuck in a catch-22. Plunging oil prices are doing Obama’s foreign policy for him. Lilia Shevtsova on what should the world fear, the rise or decline of illiberal powers? How the West answers this question will determine its relations not just with Russia, but with China as well. Prediction: Russia is gonna do some crazy shit soon. On the possibility of Putin zagging when everyone expects him to zig.
