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- February 2012 (4)
- January 2012 (6)
- 31: Are Russians As Rich As Czechs? (20)
- 30: Introducing the Journalism Security Index (JSI) (5)
- 24: Karlin Freedom Index 2012 (24)
- 23: Is The US Still A Liberal Democracy? (23)
- 23: Translation: Sergey Lukyanenko – I Will Vote For Putin (30)
- 03: New Year Special: 2012 Predictions (215)
- December 2011 (10)
- 30: The Argument For Compulsory Voting In Russia (27)
- 30: United Russia Steals Votes, And The WSJ Steals Others’ Work (13)
- 27: List Of Estimates On Fraud In Russia’s 2011 Duma Elections (33)
- 26: Measuring Churov’s Beard: The Mathematics Of Russian Election Fraud (30)
- 22: What They Say After: The Post-Elections Polls (49)
- 15: Al Jazeera On Elections And White Ribbons (15)
- 15: Kremlin Oligarch Brutally Censors Long-Suffering Russian Media (From Printing Gratuitous Profanities) (35)
- 11: My Article On The Russian Elections At Al Jazeera (57)
- 08: All Opinion Polls Relevant To Russia’s 2011 Duma Elections (86)
- 03: A Quick Note On Russia’s Duma Elections 2011 (187)
- November 2011 (4)
- October 2011 (9)
- 24: Russia Demographic Update VII (63)
- 16: 3000 AD: The Rise Of Polar Civilizations (25)
- 14: Mark Sleboda Appears On Eurasian TV (5)
- 09: Esperanto Estas La Plej Facila Lingvo En La Mondo (40)
- 08: Unraveling The Tandem Switch (19)
- 07: Why Obama Will Almost Certainly Lose (46)
- 04: Translation: Putin On Russia’s Eurasian Future (13)
- 02: Translation: It’s Time To Shove Off To Belarus! (17)
- 02: Time To Shove Off! And What Then?… (21)
- September 2011 (2)
- August 2011 (3)
- July 2011 (13)
- 31: The Book I’m Writing (7)
- 30: OPEN DISCUSSION: The US Debt Crisis (48)
- 30: The Power Of Contingency: Why China Didn’t Rule The World (71)
- 23: TRANSLATION: How Russian Liberals Create Russophobe Myths (60)
- 22: Updates On Learning Chinese (32)
- 16: OPEN DISCUSSION: Russia’s Economy In The Next Global Crisis (24)
- 14: Russia’s Economic “Stagnation” In Global Perspective (40)
- 14: The Stalinist Drug Warrior: The Real Medvedev, Part 2 (18)
- 10: Top 10 Sinophobe Myths (49)
- 08: DAM, What A President!: The Real Medvedev, Part 1 (44)
- 04: 我觉得学中文很有意思！ (62)
- 02: Names Of The Oligarchs On A Map Of The Motherland* (13)
- 02: A Tale of the Beggar And The Billionaire (11)
- June 2011 (12)
- 27: Future Superpowers – The World To 2100 (121)
- 25: Good Article On The Arctic Gold Rush (0)
- 25: Russia’s Brain Drain Abates, Just As Western Media Starts Hyping It (44)
- 22: Interview with Mark Chapman (The Kremlin Stooge) (15)
- 21: Edward McMillan-Scott, Lord Of Western Tropes On Russia (11)
- 20: La Russophobe Strikes Back (8)
- 18: Are Russian Elections Rigged?: Opinion Polls Speak Louder Than Western Rhetoric (56)
- 11: Given Free Publicity On NTV, Khodorkovsky Only Incriminates Himself Further (9)
- 11: On The Necessity Of Subjecting Kremlinologists (And Social Scientists) To Market Discipline (13)
- 08: The Starshov Vs. Markov Bitch Wars, NTV Version (2)
- 05: We Are All Georgians (15)
- 03: Russia Demographic Update VI (18)
- May 2011 (9)
- 30: How NOT To Be A Whistleblower In Russia: The Case Of Yevgeny Starshov (9)
- 27: In Which La Russophobe Interviews The Russophile Sociopath Blogging At Sublime Oblivion (19)
- 25: Corruption Realities Index 2010 (19)
- 16: Interview with Craig Willy (Letters from Europe) (4)
- 14: Decade Forecast, Part 1 – The Downsizing Of Pax Americana (14)
- 08: A Gambler’s Odyssey: The Beginning (15)
- 07: Кто Мог Бы Быть Президентом? (5)
- 07: Walled Off By Complexity: Did China Stagnate Because Of Its Writing System? (56)
- 01: Top 10 Most Useful Languages (53)
- April 2011 (10)
- 28: The Uncertain Future Of Cheap Russian Booze (3)
- 24: The Radical Ideologies Of The 21st Century (14)
- 16: Poker And Capitalism (2)
- 15: The Top 10 Russia Blogs In 2011 (19)
- 13: Conclusion: Comparison of USA, UK, Russia (15)
- 13: National Comparisons: Politics & Media (4)
- 11: National Comparisons: Everyday Life (13)
- 08: National Comparisons: The People (39)
- 05: National Comparisons: Freedom & Security (14)
- 05: Introduction: Comparison of USA, UK, Russia (1)
- March 2011 (1)
- 28: Russia’s Population Is Now Growing (10)
- February 2011 (7)
- 26: A Short Guide To Lifestyle Design (LSD): The 7 Core Skills Of The Cyberpunk Survivalist (10)
- 14: The Four Week Body Guide (15)
- 08: Guardian Censorship: Some Comments Are Freer Than Others (36)
- 03: Russia’s Demographic Resilience V (24)
- 03: Luzhkov Flees To Albion On Heels Of Russian Corruption Investigation (11)
- 02: Is This Blog Anti-American? (13)
- 01: “From an ultimate dim Thule” (0)
- January 2011 (7)
- 24: Creeping Caesarism: The Enemy Belligerent Act of 2010 (8)
- 19: Visualizing The Kremlin Clans (10)
- 16: Top 10 Most Powerful Countries In 2011 (624)
- 08: Third Anniversary! (10)
- 06: How To Help Yourself In 15 Minutes (8)
- 03: New Year Special, Part 2: 2011 Predictions (10)
- 03: New Year Special, Part 1: 2010 in Review (27)
- December 2010 (13)
- 30: REPRINT: Is Putin Pitiable, Or Is The Financial Times Corrupt? (16)
- 29: Exercises in Banality: The Moral Preening By Khodorkovsky Apologists (11)
- 24: REPRINT: Wikileaks And The South Ossetia War (12)
- 11: Our Lady Of Shadows (17)
- 08: Tales From The Beijing Embassy (7)
- 07: I’d Sooner See The World Burn Than Compromise With Rogue Scientists (3)
- 06: Orientalism Overload (8)
- 05: Chechnya, A Once And Future War? (7)
- 05: Russia Arming The Rest, And US Views On This (18)
- 04: The Collapse Party Fulfills Its Own Name (8)
- 03: Cable Intermezzo: A Caucasus Wedding (5)
- 03: New York Times Manipulation Of The (Alleged) North Korean Missile Sales To Iran Cable (5)
- 02: Wikileaks As A Mirror On The West (25)
- November 2010 (5)
- 25: Translation: Foundations Of Russia’s Arctic Policy (0)
- 21: Translation: On Canada’s Arctic Militarization (21)
- 20: Three Hypotheses About Demographic Reporting In Nezavisimaya Gazeta (7)
- 05: A Response To Vadim Nikitin’s Arguments For The “Liberation” Of Khodorkovsky And The Kuriles (22)
- 03: Trolling The Liberasts About Khodorkovsky (19)
- October 2010 (7)
- 25: Exiled Russian Dissident Yury Luzhkov Condemns Putin’s Corrupt, Stalinist Regime (21)
- 17: Why Russia And China Won’t Fight (51)
- 10: Introducing the Karlin Corruption Index (KCI) (30)
- 09: RETRACTION: Tatyana Kartashova Is The Real Deal (13)
- 08: RETRACTED: Battle Of The Calendars, Or: Russian Liberals Are So Unpopular They Have To Invent Their Own Pin-Up Girls (11)
- 03: Question: Who Rules All The Russians? (14)
- 02: Russia Updates: Luzhkov, Rearmament, GDP (14)
- September 2010 (4)
- August 2010 (11)
- 31: Boris Berezovsky: Godfather of Strategy-31 Abroad? (70)
- 29: Measuring Democracy I: Introducing the Karlin Freedom Index (KFI) (26)
- 27: The Kremlinologist Catechism (9)
- 26: Russophobe Hack Exposed, or: The Misadventures of Dorothée Olliéric of France-2 (9)
- 22: My Interview on Middle East Geopolitics, Afghanistan and Iran & the Bomb with Marat Kunaev (38)
- 21: Another View of the US Economy: Observations on Exergy, GDP & Median Incomes (18)
- 20: The Death of Sergei Tretyakov & Spook Flame Wars (42)
- 18: Everyone is Still Underestimating China (25)
- 09: Interview with Peter Lavelle (Russia Today) (13)
- 07: Russia Burning: not Apocalypse, but its Prelude (59)
- 03: Translation: Russia’s Phantom Tandem, Real Triumvirate and the Kremlin Clan Wars (38)
- July 2010 (10)
- 28: Interview with Kevin Rothrock (A Good Treaty) (39)
- 28: The Russia Watchers In Their Own Words… (6)
- 28: Russia’s Demographic Resilience IV (14)
- 24: A Rant on Orientalism & Western “Experts” (12)
- 23: The Red Slope to Caviar Road (12)
- 15: Review of “The Lucifer Principle” (H. Bloom), or: Fascism is the Natural State (19)
- 12: Russia’s Roads to Nowhere, or: build Railways instead! (13)
- 08: The Century without an Indian Summer (36)
- 05: Some Updates on Russia’s Economy (8)
- 01: Rosstat and Levada are Russophobia’s Bane (29)
- June 2010 (8)
- 26: IQ and Industrialism (21)
- 20: Top 5 Demography Myths (46)
- 18: The Boris Bombshell. Two Years Later. Still a Dud. (18)
- 13: Climate Change and Pollution Overload (6)
- 13: Why Russia is cemented to the other BRICs (6)
- 09: Could Israel vs. Flotilla be part of Turkey’s bid for Regional Hegemony? (16)
- 08: Russia isn’t hated by (most of) its neighbors (44)
- 03: The Geopolitics of Israel vs. Flotilla (20)
- May 2010 (12)
- 31: Simmered to the Edge of the World (14)
- 31: Emerging Technologies: Limits to Growth vs. Moore’s Law (4)
- 21: Augmented Reality Warfare (6)
- 19: Crisis Demography in Eurasia (22)
- 17: The People’s Choice, or how Ukrainians are learning to stop worrying and love Eurasia (27)
- 15: Безродный Космополит (4)
- 11: Making the Best of a Bad Situation (12)
- 09: Reconciling Stalin with Victory (34)
- 09: Revolution in Naval Warfare (17)
- 06: Why Russians like Putin’s Russia (11)
- 05: Prophets of the Great War: Friedrich Engels, Ivan Bloch, and Pyotr Durnovo (8)
- 01: A Short Guide to the Top 10 Russia Blogs (56)
- April 2010 (5)
- 24: On Liberasts and Liberasty (17)
- 22: In which I criticize Vladimir Putin (22)
- 19: Sublime News #8 – #9 (9)
- 08: If Malthus and Ibn Khaldun were to meet for coffee… (21)
- 04: Sublime News #7 (26)
- March 2010 (7)
- 28: How a Second Korean War will be Fought (38)
- 28: Sublime News #6 (6)
- 25: Paul Goble, Promethean Propagandist (21)
- 22: Sublime News #5 (5)
- 13: Sublime News #4 (18)
- 10: The Transition 20 Years On: The Reckoning (16)
- 06: Sublime News #3 (18)
- February 2010 (9)
- 27: Sublime News #2 (6)
- 24: Russia’s Demographic Resilience III (29)
- 22: Sublime News #1 (11)
- 18: SSR #8: On Future War (17)
- 16: Review of “Limits to Growth” (Meadows et al.) (8)
- 13: The Endgame Begins (22)
- 07: SSR #13: China, The Last Superpower (13)
- 04: Collapse Ethics: Anarchy or Coercion? (19)
- 03: Human Sustainable Development Index (1)
- January 2010 (11)
- 31: Ecotechnic Dictatorship is Our Last Hope of Averting Collapse (38)
- 28: Philosophical Musings #2 (0)
- 27: Regathering of the Russian Lands (14)
- 26: What I Believe: 2 Year Update (8)
- 24: The Meaning of Sublime Oblivion (5)
- 20: The Final Gambit: Geoengineering (6)
- 09: Happy Birthday to S/O! (7)
- 06: Surviving Collapse Part 2 (10)
- 04: Green Communism (13)
- 04: New Year Special: Year in Review and 2010 Predictions (6)
- 03: Voice of the People Part 3 (3)
- December 2009 (10)
- 21: Surviving Collapse Part 1 (5)
- 12: Freedom, Welfare, and the Future (1)
- 09: Russia’s Sex Traditions (5)
- 07: Interview @ Siberian Light
- 07: 10 Myths about Russia’s Demography (24)
- 05: Lessons from Byzantium (4)
- 04: Cliodynamics: Mathematizing History (5)
- 03: Review of “Guns, Germs, and Steel” (J. Diamond) (2)
- 03: Zizek’s Metapolitics (3)
- 01: The Deeper Meaning of Climategate (13)
- November 2009 (7)
- 30: Peak Oil and Resource Depletion (2)
- 24: Defending the Loop (4)
- 17: Russia’s Sisyphean Loop (5)
- 14: Philosophical Musings #1 (8)
- 07: Diasporas and Barbarians (8)
- 06: We Need a Fat Tax! (or revolution) (6)
- 05: Thinking about Nuclear War (2)
- October 2009 (7)
- 23: SSR #10: Europe, The Black Continent
- 22: Russia’s “Abortion Apocalypse”: А был ли мальчик? (2)
- 19: The Road to Economic Sovereignty (5)
- 16: Soviet Resilience under Fire (3)
- 13: The Return of the Reich? (0)
- 11: Violence is Reality (15)
- 04: The US Strategic Dilemma and Persian Deadlock (9)
- September 2009 (8)
- 28: Review of “Global Catastrophes and Trends” (V. Smil) (3)
- 26: Russia’s Demographic Resilience II (15)
- 19: Shifting Winds: The End Of Pax Americana (20)
- 17: What should I major in? (17)
- 08: The Genesis of Total War (1)
- 08: The Struggle between Europe and Mankind (13)
- 03: Fear and Fervor under Stalinist Industrialization (8)
- 02: America’s Liberty Cycles (6)
- August 2009 (7)
- 24: The Nazi-Soviet Pact as Second Munich (65)
- 22: Perils of Water (7)
- 16: Translation: “Radio Liberty – The Liberty of Mendacity” (13)
- 10: One Nation under CCTV (17)
- 04: New Russia-Georgia War? (46)
- 04: Reconsidering Parshev (16)
- 01: Missing the Forest for the Trees (6)
- July 2009 (6)
- 29: Вторая Великая Депрессия (3)
- 20: The Belief Matrix (12)
- 17: Review of “America Alone” (M. Steyn) (23)
- 09: Categorizing the Russia Debate (80)
- 06: Review of “The Prodigal Superpower” (S. Rosefielde) (14)
- 04: Top 50 Russophobe Myths (44)
- June 2009 (10)
- 28: Responses to common Russophobe “Arguments” (40)
- 28: Notes on “The Olduvai Theory” (R. Duncan) (1)
- 28: The Dilemmas of Global Dimming (3)
- 25: Notes on “The Last Generation” (F. Pearce) (4)
- 23: Manipulating Russia’s Manipulation of History (22)
- 18: The Approach of the New Persian Empire (12)
- 16: Blogging in WP (7)
- 13: Through the Looking Glass at Russia’s Demography (15)
- 10: Notes on “Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet” (M. Lynas) (11)
- 06: Top 10 AGW Denial Myths (11)
- May 2009 (6)
- April 2009 (9)
- 28: Preparing for the Pandemic (11)
- 26: Rite of Spring: Russia Fertility Trends (6)
- 20: Grenade Fishing on the Potomac (9)
- 19: Victimized Venezuela III: The Road to Reconciliation (10)
- 11: Twitter Terror in Moldova (32)
- 10: Review of “World made by Hand” (J. Kunstler) (4)
- 09: Notes on “The Collapse of Complex Societies” (J. Tainter) (11)
- 04: Was the French Revolution primarily a Class Struggle? (4)
- 01: Farewell, Readers! (15)
- March 2009 (7)
- 28: Decoupling from the Unwinding (18)
- 09: Translation: Confessions of a Russian “Liberal” Part 2 (10)
- 09: Translation: Confessions of a Russian “Liberal” Part 1 (7)
- 05: Comrade Kasparov – Charlatan or Bolshevik? (21)
- 04: Armageddon (6)
- 03: Myth of the Yellow Peril (12)
- 01: Myth of the Russian AIDS Apocalypse (9)
- February 2009 (8)
- 26: USA 2009 = USSR 1989 ? (11)
- 26: What a Picture Wants (3)
- 24: Voice of the People (since July 2008) Part 2 (1)
- 24: Voice of the People (since July 2008) Part I (3)
- 23: Bitch Slappers of the Next 100 Years (8)
- 18: Oily Origins of the Economic Crisis (10)
- 17: Hubris in the Heartland (1)
- 06: Smoke Weed Every Day!! (19)
- January 2009 (3)
- December 2008 (9)
- 31: New Year Update: Russophile Predictions (13)
- 31: vodka.IMPORTANT, and other things that define Sublime Oblivion (0)
- 31: Communism is our Road to Redemption (11)
- 25: X-Mas Special – Zen and the Art of Vodka Drinking (4)
- 07: Russia Economic Crisis III: On the Importance of Self-Sufficiency in Liquids (17)
- 04: Russia Economy Crisis II: Anatomy of the Crisis (1)
- 03: Russia Economy Crisis I: How Red will Russia Get? (2)
- 01: Victimized Venezuela II: Beware of Schadenfreude (2)
- 01: Russia’s Fertility Future (9)
- November 2008 (3)
- October 2008 (7)
- 27: Editorial: Halloween Special – Russia of the Dead (23)
- 14: The Great Debate (3)
- 10: Editorial: Some Thoughts on the Financial Crisis (5)
- 09: Ukraine, Georgia and Latvia, Beacons of Freedom (8)
- 07: Russia to Bail Out Iceland? (0)
- 06: Editorial: More on Deconstructing Russophobia (3)
- 05: Editorial: Russia and Limits to Growth (8)
- September 2008 (3)
- August 2008 (18)
- 20: Schröder, Captain (of What Should be) Obvious (4)
- 17: The Other Point of View (0)
- 15: Words of Truth From Lavrov (0)
- 15: Military Lessons of the Ossetian War (0)
- 15: Saakashvilisms (0)
- 12: Editorial: Deconstructing Russophobia (4)
- 12: Russia Blog Weighs In (1)
- 12: The Meaning of the Ossetian War (0)
- 12: Comprehensive Outline of Russia’s Point of View on 2008 War of Ossetia (0)
- 12: America’s Support for Saakashvili is Morally Untenable (1)
- 11: It’s Time Russia Invaded Alabama (0)
- 11: War Nerd on the 2008 Ossetia War (2)
- 11: Saakashvili, Laughing Stock of the Civilized World (0)
- 11: Western Hypocrisy Lambasted Before the World (0)
- 11: The Writing on the Wall – Russia is Back (0)
- 10: Editorial: The Western Media, Craven Shills for their Neocon Masters (13)
- 08: Editorial: Flare-up in the Caucasus – This Time It’s Serious (3)
- 03: A Long Wait at the Gate of Delusions (0)
- July 2008 (8)
- 29: Core Article: Russophile Predictions Portfolio (4)
- 21: Editorial: Demography III – Faces of the Future (16)
- 21: News 21 July: Expansion amidst Turbulence (1)
- 20: The Tyranny of the Veil (7)
- 18: Education as the Elixir of Growth II (1)
- 17: Why Obama Will Almost Certainly Win (1)
- 17: Admin: Sublime Speculations and Poll #2 Results (0)
- 17: Victimized Venezuela (3)
- April 2008 (8)
- 25: News 2 May: Russia’s Second Oil Peak (5)
- 19: Editorial: We need a Fat Tax (32)
- 14: Editorial: Demography II – Out of the Death Spiral (37)
- 08: Editorial: Demography I – The Russian Cross Reversed? (29)
- 07: News 7 Apr: NATO Founders, Western Media Deconstructed (6)
- 07: Editorial: More Reflections on Election Fraud (2)
- 06: Editorial: Lying Liars and their Lies (5)
- 02: Editorial: Lovely Levada (23)
- March 2008 (11)
- 31: Editorial: I am a Communist (12)
- 30: News 30 March: The Paradoxes of Russophobia (5)
- 29: Russophile Core Articles (2)
- 25: Core Article: Top 10 Russophobe Myths (50)
- 21: Editorial: I Appear on Al-Jazeera (6)
- 19: The People Speak: Poll #1 Results, US Presidential Candidates (5)
- 19: News 19 Mar: It Takes 2 (or 3) to Tango in Human Rights (2)
- 10: Core Article: Education as the Elixir of Growth (18)
- 06: Flotsam and Jetsam: Election Entertainment (0)
- 04: Editorial: Annals of Media Madness – The Trouble with the Economist (12)
- 02: News 2 Mar (0)
- February 2008 (1)
- 08: News 8 Feb (9)
- January 2008 (17)
- 31: News 31 Jan (8)
- 25: News 25 Jan (0)
- 25: Editorial: Annals of Demographic Doubleback – You Live How You Eat (2)
- 23: Editorial: Annals of Resurgent Russia – CIA World Factbook 2008 (15)
- 18: Hiatus/Plans (3)
- 16: News 16 Jan (0)
- 15: Core Article: What We Believe (9)
- 14: News 14 Jan (2)
- 14: Editorial: Annals of Resurgent Russia – It’s the Economy (in 2007), Stupid! (2)
- 13: News 13 Jan (0)
- 13: Mailbag: Back from a Russian Century? (0)
- 11: News 11 Jan (3)
- 11: Core Article: Towards a New Russian Century? (13)
- 10: News 10 Jan (0)
- 09: Editorial: Annals of Western Hypocrisy – Georgia Presidential Elections 2008 (8)
- 09: Core Article: Reading Russia Right (3)
- 09: Core Article: Welcome to Da Russophile (1)