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Interview with A Good Treaty
Kicking off the Watching the Russia Watchers interview series at S/O is the promising new blogger A Good Treaty. He is a DC-based foreign policy analyst who prefers a “good treaty with Russia” to only treating with a good Russia: as a … Continue reading
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The Russia Watchers In Their Own Words…
Over the years, Andy Young of Siberian Light did a series of series of interviews with top Russian watchers – La Russophobe, Tim Newman, Mike Averko, Copydude, Sean Guillory, Nathan Hamm and yours truly. However, Andy doesn’t have the time for continuing … Continue reading
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Russia’s Demographic Resilience IV
Russia’s demographic situation continued improving this year: according to the H1 2010 data released by Rosstat, relative to the same period last year, the number of births increased by 2.3% from 12.1‰ to 12.4‰ and deaths fell by 1.8% from 14.6‰ to … Continue reading
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The Red Slope to Caviar Road
The Russian magazine Esquire came up with some pretty shocking figures: it would be cheaper to pave one 48km road for the Sochi Olympics with elite beluga caviar than asphalt. The total cost would come in at a cool 227 … Continue reading
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Russia’s Roads to Nowhere, or: build Railways instead!
Though it’s not quite true that Russia has “no roads, only directions”, the old saying isn’t far off the mark. The World Bank’s recent report on Russia’s economy notes that the Eurasian giant’s road network is primitive and crumbling, coming … Continue reading
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Some Updates on Russia’s Economy
There is a wide divergence of views on Russia’s economic future. The pessimists project near zero growth (e.g. SWP, Guriev & Zhuravskaya), or even a renewed collapse if Europe goes haywire. The inventor of the BRIC’s concept (and Russia bull) … Continue reading
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Rosstat and Levada are Russophobia’s Bane
Still no economic collapse. Still no anti-Putin bunt. Still no demographic apocalypse. As the years pass by, Russophobe canard after Russophobe trope is relegated to the dust-heap of history, only to rise back out of its grave, zombie-like, whenever Boris … Continue reading
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The Boris Bombshell. Two Years Later. Still a Dud.
During the past two years, Russian “dissident” liberals Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov have produced a frankly maniacal quantity of so-called “Independent Expert Reports” (there are now seven of them) that purport to debunk the “persistent myths imposed by official … Continue reading
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