Links

This is a vastly extended version of the sidebar Blogroll. It is being continually updated. Please feel free to contact me about swapping links.

Sublime Oblivion Links

These blogs may complement my Sublime Oblivion blog to help you better understand current affairs and our future geopolitics, energy and climate dilemmas. Recommended picks are bolded and even UPPER-CASED.

THE WORLD SYSTEM (Politics, Economy, Society)

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is good for an alarmist read.
Angry Bear is a slightly left of center multi-blog effort.
THE BASELINE SCENARIO featuring regular commentary by Simon Johnson.
The Big Picture is a good finance & economy blog by Barry Ritholtz & Co.
British Helsinki Human Rights Group did a valuble service in exposing OSCE corruption, but was criticized for whitewashing authoritarians (dead blog).
CALCULATED RISK is a very popular economy & financial blog that predicted the housing bubble back in 2005.
Cliodynamics (Ru.) on mathematizing history.
Douglas Muir blogs on varied, interesting topics at AFOE.
Econbrowser is an academic economics blog by James Hamilton & Menzie Chinn.
EDWARD HUGH is an economist who stresses its connections with aging and predicted the Med crisis. Follow on Facebook & AFOE.
Empire Burlesque is a System-critical blog by Chris Floyd; too shrill and biased, but all too frequently exposes real Western hypocrisy.
The End of Capitalism is a far left blog.
Environmental Economics by Tim Haab & John Whitehead.
EXILED ONLINE is the angry, cynical far left successor the The eXiled, the best magazine in the world by Mark Ames, John Dolan, Sasha Levine, etc. Follow on Twitter.
A FISTFUL OF EUROS has everything you need to know about European politics, society & demography. Follow on Twitter.
Gene Expression on biology & human populations.
GLENN GREENWALD is the blogger to read for updates on creeping authoritarianism in the West. Follow on Twitter.
Global Voices brings you updates on what bloggers around the world are writing about.
Infectious Greed by Paul Kedrosky.
Lazy Glossophiliac has an intelligent conservative take on things from Tolstoy’s War and Peace to Race & IQ.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has many interesting observations on idiosyncratic things.
Marginal Revolution is a economic & sociological blog.
Market Skeptics are unrestrained economic doomers.
Marxists Internet Archive is an excellent resource.
Matt Taibbi lambasts the banksters.
Mish’s Economic Trend Analysis is a fairly pessimistic blog.
Naked Capitalismis a popular go-get-’em type of blog.
NET EFFECT is a fascinating blog on the intersection of authoritarian, revolution and information technology by Evgeny Morozov. Follow on Twitter.
Nouriel Roubini of Black Swans fame.
Oswald Spengler is a civilizational theorist at The Asia Times who was outed as David Goldman.
Paul Krugman is too stimulus-addicted.
Political Compass determines your ideological position on a “political” and “economic” axis.
Prudent Bear is pessimistic on the future.
Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey.
Robert Lindsay is an intriguing and truly idiosyncratic leftist.
RGE MONITOR is a very good resource but most of it is behind a paywall.
Seeking Alpha specializes in stock market news.
Steve Sailer on the significance of population differences in IQ.
THINK PROGRESS is the leading liberal blog by Matthew Yglesias.
Thomas P.M. Barnett on emerging security challenges in the equatorial Gap nations.
Willem Buiter was one of my favorite economist bloggers (dead blog).
World Crisis (Ru.) is a doomerish Russia economics site.
Vineyard of the Saker is a leftist blog.

THE LIMITS TO GROWTH (Resource Depletion & Climate Change)

Circle of Blue features water news.
CLIMATE PROGRESS is the premier blog on the science & politics of climate change by Joseph Romm.
Climate Shifts is a news blog about AGW, the environment, and related politics.
THE COST OF ENERGY is a leading blog on climate change & resource depletion by Lou Grinzo.
David Strahan of The Last Oil Shock fame.
Dry Dipstick is a peak oil resource.
ENERGY BULLETIN is a useful peak oil issues aggregator site.
ENERGY WATCH GROUP is a German energy consultancy that works on resource depletion models.
Environmental News Network is useful for climate followers.
George Monbiot of Heat fame.
Graphoilogy is a peak oil modeler.
Grist has environmental news.
Mark Lynas of Six Degrees (review) fame.
Mobjectivist is a peak oil modeler.
THE OIL DRUM is the premier blog on the future of energy, peak oil and limits to growth.
Peak Oil News is a useful resource. Participate in their forums.
Question Everything on biophysical economics by George Mobus.
REAL CLIMATE on the science of global warming.
World Changing has news & analysis on planetary challenges.

TOWARDS SINGULARITY? (Science & Technology)

Accelerating Future is a group of techno-optimist blogs.
Future Pundit is a blog full of posts on emerging technologies.
KURZWEIL AI is the premier blog on the philosophy of “technological singularity” and current technological trends.
Matrix Philosophy considers the implications of simulated reality.
Nick Bostrom is an AI ethicist; amongst other things, he advanced an intriguing argument that we almost certainly live within a simulated reality.
OPEN THE FUTURE on the intersection between climate change, resource depletion and technological acceleration by Jamais Cascio; is now slow-going, but the archives are worth checking out.
Plausible Futures is a futurist blog.
Singularity 2050 is a conservative, strongly pro-American take on the technological singularity.
TECH CRUNCH is an IT news blog.
Wolfram Alpha is a vision of what Semantic Web is all about.

GRAND STRATEGY (Big Thinking & The Art of Geopolitics)

Bernard Finel on politics, national security & social commentary.
Coming Anarchy on world affairs & politics.
The Committee of Public Safety on geopolitics.
European Geostrategy featured Europe analysis.
(Ex)Washington Realist features Rise of the Rest themes by Nikolas Gvosdev.
FABIUS MAXIMUS is an aloof, largely non-partisan take on geopolitics & how to stop American decline. In their own words…
Global Research on Globalization has leftist geopolitical analysis.
Open Source Geopolitics is a daily aggregator.
REAL CLEAR WORLD is a global affairs aggregator.
SCHOLAR’s STAGE is a well-informed perspective on global geopolitics, China and US power by T. Greer.
STRATFOR is a premier resource on geopolitics & intelligence – well worth signing up for.
Visions of Empire include “thoughts on the ceaseless struggles for power that define our world”.
THE WESTPHALIAN POST is a realist take on global geopolitics. Follow on Twitter.
ZEN PUNDIT explores “the intersections of foreign policy, history, military theory, national security,strategic thinking, futurism, cognition and a number of other esoteric pursuits.”

THERE WILL BE WAR! (Military & Defense)

AUSTRALIA AIR POWER features Carlo Kopp’s brilliant analysis of American and Russian air power & IADS.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on global threats such as nuclear forces, climate change and bioweapons.
DANGER ROOM (Wired) is a premier blog on military affairs & technology.
Dark Government blogs on what DARPA and drones are up to.
Defense Professionals has great coverage of military news.
Defense Talk is, you guessed it!
Defense Tech is a great blog on military affairs.
FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS has a lot of useful information on world’s strategic nuclear forces. Follow on Facebook & Twitter.
New Wars recommends smaller, more flexible navies.
Proliferation Press is a “webpage devoted to tracking and analyzing current events related to the proliferation of WMD/CBRN”.
SAM Simulator is a dead accurate, difficult war fighter program.
STRATEGY PAGE has military news & strategic analysis.
War Nerd (eXiled) reminds us of the importance of demography to guerrilla wars.
War News Updates help you keep up with defense.
Warfare.Ru is an extensive Russian site on military affairs.

APOCALYPSE SOON (Collapse, Survival & Existential Risks)

Approaching the Limits is a fairly doomerish blog on the likelihood of future collapse by Paul Chefurka.
THE ARCHDRUID REPORT on the coming Long Descent (review) of industrial civilization into an Ecotechnic Future (review) by John Michael Greer.
The Collapse Party is my own stalled project Reinforce resilience, Inform the people, Prepare for collapse! (dead site)
Die Off by crazy doomer Jay Hanson.
DMITRY ORLOV is a Russian “kollapsnik” best known for his theory of an American-Soviet collapse gap.
The Doomer Report is Dr. Strangelove to any apocalypse.
EXIT MUNDI is a cool compendium of end of the world scenarios by Maarten Keulemans.
From the Wilderness is a wild conspiracy blog.
Gentle Apocalypse “odyssey to very nearby.”
GLOBALIZED GUERRILLAS blogs about “networked tribes, systems disruption, and the emerging bazaar of violence.”
James Kunstler is a critic of suburbia and pretty extreme doomer who thinks we are entering a Long Emergency (review) that will culminate in A World Made By Hand (review) within a generation.
Life After the Oil Crash is good for its (extreme doomer) breaking news section by Matt Savinar.
LIFEBOAT is a blog on the intersection between future technology and existential risks (both technological & climate related).
Post Apocalypse has film reviews.
Surviving in Argentina is somewhat nutty & paranoid, but makes good observations on how to survive a limited social collapse.
Vagrancy Survival Guide tells you how to make it as a bomzh.

REGIONAL INSIGHTS (Around the World with S/O)

An American Perspective from China by Patrick Chovanec. Follow on Twitter.
Andy Xie (Cn.) on Chinese economy.
M.K. Bhadrakumar is a good Rise of the Rest type analyst at Asia Times.
The China Beat is written by China experts.
CHINA BRIEF on Chinese security at Jamestown Foundation.
CHINA HUSH provides translations of Chinese source material. In their own words… Follow on Facebook & Twitter.
CHINA SMACK on what China’s netizens are saying!
Daniel Pipes & his Islamophobia.
Danwei has translations of Chinese source material.
ESWN on Chinese life.
Eurasia Net has news & analysis on the region.
Eurasian Daily Monitor on Russian security at Jamestown Foundation.
European Geostrategy on security & geopolitics of EU and its member states.
France/Islam combats neocon Francophobia & French Islamophobia.
German Foreign Policy is the German view of geopolitics.
GEOPOLITCA (Ru.) is the Russian view of geopolitics.
GREEN LEAP FORWARD is an insider perspective on Chinese environmental politics by Julian L. Wong. Follow on Facebook & especially Twitter.
Jihad Watch crusaders.
JUAN COLE with Middle East commentary.
Mark Weisbrot is a left-leaning economist specializing in Latin America & Venezuela.
New Eastern Outlook is a Russian view of geopolitics.
Shanghaiist on Chinese life.
Venezuela Analysis vindicates Bolivarianism & shows the hypocrisy of anti-Chavez forces by Gregory Wilpert.

STATISTICS DON’T LIE (usually…)

Automobile Production is a good proxy of medium added-value industrial production.
CIA WORLD FACTBOOK
CIA World Factbooks 1990-2007
Corruption Perceptions but note that it has been subjected to a lot of criticism.
Ease of Doing Business
ECO-ECONOMY INDICATORS
Economic Freedoms
Energy Export Databrowser
Gallup Polls on what Americans think.
Gender Equality
Human Mortality Database is an invaluably demography resource.
IQ Scores are good gauges of human capital.
IMF WORLD ECONOMIC OUTLOOK DATABASES has times series on many economic stats for almost every country.
International standardized tests are good gauges of human capital – see PISA, TIMMS, PIRLS.
Internet Penetration
iSimulate @ World Bank lets you play around with projects.
Machine Building
Maddison Historical Stats very useful resource on global comparative economic history.
NationMaster is pretty useless, actually.
Parliament Stats
POLITICAL FREEDOM rankings are subject to dispute, but from most objective to ideologized: 1) Polity IV, 2) Economist Democracy Index, 3) Freedom House.
Real GDP (per capita) is a fair proxy of national wealth & personal affluence, respectively. See UN stats for data since 1960.
Shadow Stats claims that since the 1990′s, America’s growth rates were massively overstated due to excessive use of hedonistics and substitutions adjustments in the inflation rate by John Williams.
Steel production (see also 1, 2) is a good proxy of industrial volume.
Strategy Page: Armed Forces of the World
Strategy Page: Navies of the World
Top 500 list of supercomputers is a fairly good proxy of national hi-tech strength.
US Minerals Databrowser
World Health stats from the WHO.
World Labor stats from the ILO.
World Militaries… (a Brazilian perspective)
WORLD VALUES SURVEY on what peoples around the world hold as their beliefs & core values – yields many cultural insights.

The MSM (yawn…)

I’m not a huge fan of the mainstream media. Though they all wear a veneer of objectivity, in truth they operate under the dictates of the propaganda model to a greater or lesser extent. So read them critically.

Al Jazeera (Qatar)
Asia Time is a good newspaper on Asia news & analysis; the notorious “Oswald Spengler” writes there.
BBC News
Christian Science Monitor
Deutsche Welle (DE)
THE DIPLOMAT has by far the best Eng.-lang analytical coverage of East Asia, though usually channeled through Western biases.
THE ECONOMIST shouldn’t really be read as insights into how the world works, but into how the Western elites think.
Le Figaro (FR)
Financial Times
Foreign Policy journal
GOOGLE NEWS for reading widely.
GOOGLE TRANSLATE should be used for reading foreign languages you don’t understand and can’t be bothered learning.
The Guardian
Haaretz (Israel)
The Hindu (India)
Hurriyet (Turkey)
Japan Times
Kommersant (Russia)
Le Monde (FR)
New York Times
Press TV (Iran)
SF Gate
SPIEGEL (DE) is highly recommended for news on Germany & Europe.
The Sunday Times
The Telegraph
The Times of India
Today’s Zaman (Turkey)
Xinhua (China)
Wall Stress Journal
Washington Post
WSWS

Da Russophile Links

These blogs and websites may complement my Da Russophile blog to help you better understand today’s Russia. Recommended picks are bolded and even UPPER-CASED.

THE RUSSIA BLOGS

See my Short Guide to the Top 10 Russia Blogs.

A GOOD TREATY prefers to follow Bismarck’s realist dictum to only treating with a good Russia, disdaining neocons & neoliberals alike. In his own words… Follow on Twitter.
A Russia of my Own by Josefina.
A Step at a Time by British neocon David McDuff.
Accidental Russophile by Wally Shedd (dead blog).
American Russia Observations by Robert MacDonald.
Andrey Illarianov (Ru.) blogs about his libertarian anti-Putinism.
AUSTERE INSOMNIAC is a conservative Russia blog by Leoš Tomíček. In his own words…
Backyard Safari (De.) by Ernst Krenkel. Follow on Twitter.
The Beet Goes On by The Expatresse.
Blogging about the Unthinkable on Soviet atomic culture by Sovietologist.
Brug naar Rusland (Nl.) is a moderate “Russophile” take by Joera Mulders (dead blog).
Committee for Russian Economic Freedom by Pavel Ivlev.
copydude (dead blog).
Da Russophile is my old site at blogger that redirects to S/O.
De Rebus Antiquis Et Novis is a Russian history blog by Dmitri Minaev (mostly dead blog).
The Democratist has “ideologized commentary on Russia and the CIS”: fixed.
Der Unbequeme (De.) was “Russia in the Media” auf Deautsch (deleted blog).
Dissonance (Fr.) est une vision dissonante de la Russie ecrit par Alexandre Latsa. Follow on Facebook & Twitter.
Dividing my Time on Russian culture by Jennifer Eremeeva. Follow on Twitter.
DMITRY MEDVEDEV (Ru.) is the Russian President’s official presence on LiveJournal. Follow his Videoblog, on Twitter & Facebook. Also check out the False President on Twitter.
Dmitry Rogozin, Russia’s ambassador to NATO on Twitter: we’re gonna kick your ass!
The Eagle and the Bear by Alec L.
Eastern Approaches is the Economist’s blog on Eastern Europe and Russia.
Ed Lucas is a Western chauvinist who compares Putin’s Russia to the Dark Lord’s Mordor. Follow on Twitter.
ENGLISH RUSSIA is a hilarious photo-blog about Russia.
Eternal Remont is very funny, cynical & Kremlin-critical (mostly dead blog).
False Dmitri was a Russophile (deleted blog).
Foundation for Russian American Economic Cooperation by Susan King. Follow on Twitter.
GUS News (De.) is a premier German-language blog on Eurasia by Paul Becker.
In Mutatione Fortitudo on Azerbaijan by Ali Novruzov.
Ilya Yashin (Ru.) blogs as anti-Putin liberal.
In Moscow’s Shadows is Mark Galeotti’s blog on Russian organized crime.
Ivanov Report by Eugene Ivanov features the most comprehensive commentary on the Washington Post’s Russia coverage on the interwebs.
Jamestown Foundation Blog has “timely analysis and commentary on geopolitical developments in Eurasia”.
Kirill Pankratov (Ru.) was a cynical “Russophile” writer – check out his brilliant eXile articles (dead blog).
Konstantin fearlessly exposed Russophobe mendacity for two years (dead blog).
THE KREMLIN STOOGE by Mark Chapman started by being the next La Russophobe Exposed, and has now progressed to being one of the major Russia-watching blogs in its own right.
Krusenstern (De.) (dead blog).
LA RUSSOPHOBE is her own best parady: if repetitive editorials and moralizing hypocrisy is your idea of good morbid entertainment, this is your blog! In her own words… Follow on Twitter & Facebook.
La Russophobe Exposed (dead blog).
Leopolis is a blog on Eastern Europe & Russia.
Lex Libertas was an American expat & Russophile Republican (dead blog).
Maksim Kononenko (Ru.) is Supreme Idiot of All-Russia, according to himself. Has a reputation & runs humor site vladimir.vladimirovich. Follow on Twitter.
Marchmonet News on business in Russia’s regions.
Marginalia by the Latvian cultural figure & moderate Russphobe Pēteris Cedriņš (dead blog).
MARK ADOMANIS is a pithy, succinct, opinionated, sarcastic, incisive Russia blogger & neocon slayer. In his own words…
Mat Rodina by Stanislav Mishin quotes Nevsky: “Whosoever shall come to us with the sword shall perish by it” – need more be said?
Mike Averko is a cyber-troll intent on exposing the “not so Russia friendlys” in the “propped Eng. lang. mass media”: in his own words, “Among the truly insane, I can see where the sane might be seen as the same”.
Minding Russia features paranoid Russophobia by Catherine Fitzpatrick. Follow on Twitter.
Miriam Elder is a journalist at Global Post. Follow on Twitter.
Misha’s Russia Blog is a Russophile blog.
THE MOSCOW DIARIES by astute, critical journo Julia Ioffe. In her own words… Follow on Twitter.
Moscow Rules (dead blog), but follow Red Exile – a lawyer who switches between Russia and Turkey – on Twitter.
Moscow through Brown Eyes on racism in Russia (dead blog).
Moscow Tory by Carl Thomson (deleted blog).
Neeka’s Backlog by Veronica Khokhlova. Follow on Global Voices.
News from the Eastern by Helen, Caroline & Katie.
Nicolai Petro is a pro-Kremlin academic who argues Putin & Medvedev are liberal modernizers.
Official Russia is a Russia news & blog posts aggregator.
The Oil and the Glory on Eurasian pipeline geopolitics at Foreign Policy.
Oleg Kashin (Ru.) is a Kremlin-critical investigative journalist.
Oleg Kozlovsky writes about his anti-Kremlin provocations. Follow on Twitter & на русском.
Once Upon a Time in the West is a devotee of the Final Phase theory that the USSR never collapsed and is still plotting the downfall of Western capitalism from its Kremlin center. Just like General Jack D. Ripper, this guy sees water fluoridation as a Commie plot to contaminate our bodily fluids… You can’t make this up.
The Other Russia (opinionated) opposition blog.
Otto Pohl on Central Asia (mostly dead blog).
The Parallax Brief was well-informed & moderate (dead blog).
POEMLESS is a “neo-Stalinist Manta Ray of political analysis” with an idiosyncratic take on Russia. In her own words…
POWER VERTICAL is RFERL’s Kremlin-critical blog by Robert Coalson & Brian Whitmore. Follow on Twitter.
Putinania is a political blog on Russia.
Registan is the premier blog on Central Asia by Nathan Hamm, Joshua Foust & Michael Hancock.
Rick Docksai focused on energy issues (dead blog).
ROBERT AMSTERDAM is Khodorkovsky’s lawyer & his editor James take an unsurprisingly Kremlin-critical stance. Follow on Twitter (or mbk_center), Facebook & YouTube.
Российская Федерация (De.) (deleted blog).
Rusource on Russian international businesses in the US and the Russian Diaspora.
Russia Blog by Yuri Mamchur is in decline since the departure of editor Charles Ganske.
Russia Economy Watch by Ed Hugh (mostly dead blog).
Russia Blog at Foreign Policy by Vadim Nikitin.
Russia in the Media by Fedia Kriukov was a brilliant critic of Western coverage of Russia (dead blog).
Russia Monitor on the economy & business by Jesse Heath.
RUSSIA: OTHER POINTS OF VIEW is a pro-Kremlin blog challenging the dominant Western narrative of Russia as an “evil empire” by Sharon Tennison, Maria Maslova, Gordon Hahn & Patrick Armstrong. In their own words…
Russia & CIS Defense Policy Blog compiles news on the topic.
Russian Life blog is affiliated with the magazine of the same name.
Russian Military Reform tracks developments in the Russian military by Dmitry Gorenburg.
Russian strategic nuclear forces by Pavel Podvig has most things you want to know on the subject.
The Russian Sphinx on business & economy in Russia.
The Russian Week by Carl Thomson (formerly of Moscow Tory) & Asher Pirt.
Russian Victories is something like Mat Rodina (but more Russian) by Michael Kuznetsov.
Russianize This! by Elena.
Scraps of Moscow is heavy on Moldova by Lyndon Allin.
SEAN’s RUSSIA BLOG combines academic rigor with an accessible, readable style: if you had to follow just one blog to get a comprehensive idea of what Russia is like, in all its rich hues and contradictions, then this is for you! In his own words… Follow on Twitter & Facebook.
Siberian Light is the granddaddy of Russia “aggregator” type blogs by Andy Young (mostly dead blog). Follow on Twitter.
Soviet Яussia (Sp.) is a blog about Russian life en Español. Follow onTwitter & YouTube.
Spotlight on Russia by inveterate Kremlim critic Vladimir Kara-Murza.
STREETWISE PROFESSOR by Craig Pirrong is a trenchant critic of Russia’s “natural state”, which he views as diametrically opposed to his own classic liberalism and Jacksonianism. In his own words…
SUBLIME OBLIVION (this blog!) by Anatoly Karlin places great value on opinion polls & statistics in analyzing Russia and feels Russians are entitled to forge their own route to modernity. In my own words… Follow on Facebook & Twitter.
Sublime Oblivion (Ru.) – мой русскоязычный блог на ЖЖ (mostly dead blog).
Taras Kuzio is a mostly anti-Kremlin Ukraine analyst.
Tatyana Korchevnaya (Ru.) is a Russian liberal who got disenchanted with its hypocritical leadership.
Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness on Russian culture & Northern Irish unionist by Owen Polley.
Timothy Post is a Bostonian expat & businessman in Krasnodar Krai. Follow on Twitter & Facebook.
Treacherous Truths is a Latvian view (dead blog).
TRUTH & BEAUTY (… & RUSSIAN FINANCE) is a blog by Eric Kraus, who made big ruble investing in Russia from 1998 and knows the Russian economy better than the back of his hand.
Turkish Invasion is a Turk’s, Dinc, perspective on the post-USSR.
UKRAINIANA by Taras is a funny & cynical blog on Ukraine’s politics by Taras, perhaps the best one. Follow on Twitter.
Untimely Thoughts is a pro-Kremlin blog by Peter Lavelle hosted by Russia Today.
Vasily Yakemenko (Ru.) blogs as pro-Kremlin Nashi leader.
Vilhelm Konnander blogs on politics and security in Eurasia. Follow on Global Voices.
White Sun of the Desert focusing on oil issues by Tim Newman, a British expat on Sakhalin.
Window on Eurasia is a blog by Paul Goble, a Promethean propagandist who cherry-picks the Russian press & quotes/misquotes it to create the most negative possible impression of the country.
Winthrop360 is a very Russophile, pro-Kremlin (dead blog).

RUSSIA RESOURCES

Business New Europe is an excellent site for E. Europe & Russia economy, business analysis, but behind a paywall.
Chernobyl & The Zone News (Ru.) on that post-nuclear apocalyptic wasteland.
DEMOSCOPE (Ru.) is an indispensable biweekly for anyone seriously interested in Russia’s demography.
The Empire that was Russia has a big database of Prokudin-Gorskii’s photos of life in the late Russian Empire… in color!
Eurasian Daily Monitor on Russian security at Jamestown Foundation.
The eXile was the best Russia magazine in the history of mankind; its archives are well worth exploring like a mysterious, subterranean realm (dead site).
EXPERT RUSSIA DISCUSSION GROUP is a newsgroup for Russia watchers run by Peter Lavelle.
Final Phase is a forum for discussing the fascinating theory that the Soviet Union never collapsed and will soon invade the free world. Wolverines to the ready!
GOOGLE RUSSIA NEWS is the best Russia news aggregator.
History: Against Lies and Falsifications (Ru.) is the RF’s Ministry of Defense site offering its own interpretation / spin on history.
Institute of Contemporary Development looks pretty boring.
ITAR-TASS is the offician news agency of Russia.
JOHNSON’s RUSSIA LIST website was discontinued on Jan 1st 2010, however David Johnson continues mailing out his daily JRL (a comprehensive roundup of Russia news that is near indispensable for any serious Russia watcher). Contact him here if you wish to subscribe; as a free service, donations are appreciated.
Kompromat.Ru is the center of Runet filth by all & from all.
KREMLIN is the Russian government’s official site, featuring the President’s acts, speeches and videos.
LEVADA POLLS (Ru.) is indispensable if you want to find out what Russians really think (as opposed to relying on Kremlinogists with an ax to grind).
Library of A. M. Kazikhanov (Ru.) is a huge online repository about the peoples, culture and history of the North Causus.
LURKMORE (Луркоморье) has everything you ever needed to know about Runet culture & social categories like liberasts, putztriots, zhurnalizds, sovoks and the Bloody (Ke)GeBnya. It’s a fascinating world out there folks.
Moscow Defense Brief is an excellent bimonthly resource on Russian military affairs, but went behind a high paywall sometime in 2009.
The Moscow News is a Kremlin-friendly paper for expats in Russia. Follow on Facebook & Twitter.
The Moscow Times is a Kremlin-critical paper for expats in Russia. Follow on Facebook & Twitter.
New Eastern Outlook is a Russian geopolitical analysis site with a “derzhavnik” slant.
Our Victory / Наша Победa (Ru.) is a major Russian site on the Great Patriotic War (has EN & DE language versions).
Pravda is a joke site.
Postmodern Geopolitics (Ru.) is a “derzhavnik” geopolitics portal.
RIA Novosti is an official Russian news agency.
ROSSTAT is Russia’s statistics agency for those who prefer to deal in facts and figures instead of Kremlinological divinations.
Russian Life is an American magazine on Russia.
Russian News is Andy Young’s (of Siberian Light) Russia news aggregator.
RUSSIA PROFILE features expert discussion about Russian affairs.
RUSSIA TODAY is the country’s English language TV channel offering a Russian perspective on world affairs (similar to France 24, Al Jazeera, etc).
Russia! is a glossy magazine on Russia.
Russophile Union is my Facebook group which are free to join.
Skyscraper Forum, their Russian section has a lot of informative discussions about Russian infrastructure and construction.
Soviet Literature has commentary & translations.
Soviet Music is a huge database of inspiring Russian revolutionary, martial and patriotic songs.
Seventeen Moments in Soviet History is an excellent online archive of primary source materials on Soviet history.
SТRATFOR on Former Soviet Union has a realist, insightful yet sometimes hyperbolic take on Eurasian geopolitics.
VsIOM has a wealth of polling information on Russia.
World Bank Russian Economy Reports are useful biyearly summaries and analyses of the subject.

РОССИЙСКИЕ ГАЗЕТЫ

Аргументы и Факты – intellectual newspaper.
Эхо Москвы
Ежедневный Журнал
Газета.Ру – bland, but informative newspaper.
Геополитика.Ру
GOOGLE RUSSIA NEWS
ИноСМИ: think Russians are censored from reading the wonderful products of the Western MSM? Too bad that not only is it untrue, but there are sites like these that translate it and generate big, often critical, discussions.
Известия is a centrist newspaper.
Кавказский Узел has Caucasus news.
Коммерсантъ – newspaper of Russia’s business elites, liberal / libertarian.
Комсомольская правда – centrist, Russia’s biggest newspaper.
Красная Звезда
Лефт.ру
Московский Комсомолец
News.Ру
Независимая Газета - Russian’s main sane liberal newspaper.
Новая Газета – Russia’s main INsane liberal newspaper.
Независимое Военное Обозрение
Регнум – centrist, Medvedev clan-affiliated newspaper.
Русский Репортер is the media outlet that was Wikileaks’ first Russian partner in disseminating the US cables.
Труд – far left / Communist Party-affiliated newspaper.
Трудовая Россия
Ведомости – center-left newspaper; in particular, features good coverage of corruption scandals.
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