About

In addition to blogging here, Anatoly Karlin also runs Arctic Progress.
You can also read his articles at Inosmi (на русском) and Al Jazeera.
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- Blogroll (1)
- Collapse & Apocalypse (14)
- Da Russophile (Best Russia Sites) (29)
- A Good Treaty
- Austere Insomniac
- Demoscope Journal (Ru.)
- Expert Russia Discussion Group
- Johnson's Russia List
- Kremlin Stooge
- Levada Polls (Ru.)
- Mark Adomanis
- poemless, the blog
- Power Vertical
- Robert Amsterdam
- Rosstat (Ru.)
- Russia Monitor
- Russia Watchers
- Russia Watchers
- Russia: Other Points of View
- Sean's Russia Blog
- Siberian Light
- Streetwise Professor
- Sublime Oblivion @ InoSMI
- Truth and Beauty
- Economics (25)
- Energy & Environment (18)
- Friends of AK (12)
- humor (4)
- News & Analysis (11)
- russia (24)
- Russia Blogs (67)
- 3000 Versts of Loneliness
- A Good Treaty
- GUS News (De.)
- Ivanov Report
- Johnson's Russia List
- Kremlin Stooge
- Mark Adomanis
- Mat Rodina
- Mike Averko
- Misha's Russia Blog
- Moscow Tory
- Nicolai Petro
- Peter Lavelle
- poemless, the blog
- Power Vertical
- Robert Amsterdam
- RUSOURCE
- Russia Blog
- Russia Economy Watch
- Russia in the Media
- Russia Monitor
- Russia Watchers
- Russia Watchers
- Russia's Nuclear Forces
- Russia: Other Points of View
- Russian Victories
- Sean's Russia Blog
- Siberian Light
- Sublime Oblivion (Ru.)
- Sublime Oblivion @ InoSMI
- Truth and Beauty
- Vilhelm Konnander
- Stats (21)
- Sublime Links (51)
- A Fistful of Euros
- A Good Treaty
- Archdruid Report
- Austere Insomniac
- China Brief
- Climate Progress
- Cost of Energy
- Danger Room (Wired)
- Demoscope Journal (Ru.)
- Eurasia Daily Monitor
- eXiled online
- Expert Russia Discussion Group
- Fabius Maximus
- Kurzweil AI
- Levada Polls (Ru.)
- Mark Adomanis
- Oil Drum
- poemless, the blog
- Power Vertical
- Real Clear World
- Robert Amsterdam
- Rosstat (Ru.)
- Russia: Other Points of View
- Scholar's Stage
- Sean's Russia Blog
- Siberian Light
- Strategy Page
- STRATFOR
- Streetwise Professor
- Truth and Beauty
- Sublime Oblivion Links (32)
- There Will Be War! (8)
- Towards Singularity (11)
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Monthly Archives: December 2008
New Year Update: Russophile Predictions
Happy New Year to all Sublime Oblivion readers! Half a year ago I made a Russophile Predictions portfolio to 2013. The New Year is probably one of the more appropriate times to check up on their accuracy, as winthrop360 has … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged agriculture, demography, economy, energy, finance, public health, uk, usa, vision
13 Comments
vodka.IMPORTANT, and other things that define Sublime Oblivion
Siberian Light found a nifty site called Wordle, which lets you generate “word clouds” from your site. Here’s the word cloud for Sublime Oblivion. I particular like the vodka.IMPORTANT juxtaposition. Truer words were never spoken – let’s drink to that!
Communism is our Road to Redemption
Green Communism is humanity’s last and only chance to avert environmental catastrophe. Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged climate change, communism, culture, economy, education, energy, finance, history, politics, science, singularity, vision
11 Comments
X-Mas Special – Zen and the Art of Vodka Drinking
The method, art and philosophy of drinking lots and lots of vodka. Continue reading
Russia Economic Crisis III: On the Importance of Self-Sufficiency in Liquids
IMPORTANT: I have since corrected, slightly revised and released An Analysis of Russia’s Economic Crisis: On the Importance of Self-Sufficiency in Liquids in pdf format. In this essay, I analyze three major areas of concern about the current Russian economy … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged baltics, china, demography, finance, international relations, politics, russophobes, ukraine, usa, western media
17 Comments
Russia Economy Crisis II: Anatomy of the Crisis
As promised in the last post, here is a follow-up about Part II of the 17th World Bank Russia report, the reading of which cannot be stressed as too important in the current climate. Like in the last post, I … Continue reading
Russia Economy Crisis I: How Red will Russia Get?
Recently the World Bank’s November issue of the biannual Russian Economic Report came out. At the time I was busy with other things, amongst others planning the move from Blogger to self-hosted WordPress; as such, I did not give it … Continue reading
Victimized Venezuela II: Beware of Schadenfreude
Much like Putin’s Russia, Venezuela has been unfairly victimized by Washington’s foreign policy elite and savaged by the Western MSM, which have caricatured Chávez as a run of the mill Latin American populist strongman. In a previous post on this … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House
Tagged economy, finance, international relations, latin america, usa, western media
2 Comments
Russia’s Fertility Future
The excellent demographic journal Demoscope has an extensive discussion of fertility trends in Russia. Some of it backs my own views in Demography I – The Russian Cross Reversed? and consequently, the assumptions behind the future demographic projections in Demography … Continue reading