Kathryn Hendley (Wisconsin): Who Are the Legal Nihilists in Russia? Bill Bowring (London): The Russian Language in Ukraine: Complicit in Genocide, or Victim of State-Building? Olga Kucherenko (St. John's): That’ll Teach’em to Love Their Motherland! Russian Youth Revisit the Battles of World War II. A review of Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union by Conor O’Clery. From The Nation, Stephen Cohen on the Soviet Union's afterlife; and is the world really safer without the USSR? Mikhail Gorbachev wants to know. Gorbachev has turned 80, an occasion for us to reflect, not only about his contribution, but also about what happened to us after he left the Kremlin. From VQR, if a dirty bomb attack ever occurs, the radiological material is apt to come from the land of Chernobyl; the Soviets detonated hundreds of bombs in Kazakhstan in preparation for a nuclear war that never came; Jason Motlagh on surviving the Soviet hangover in Belarus, the former USSR's last dictatorship; and a generation ago, a Soviet dam drained the Aral Sea — can a new dam reclaim it? A review of Mafia State: How One Reporter Became an Enemy of the Brutal New Russia by Luke Harding. The End of Putin: Alexey Navalny on why the Russian protest movement will win.
