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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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Tag Archives: central asia
Russia isn’t hated by (most of) its neighbors
One of the staples of the neocon-Russophobe narrative is that Russia is alone in the world, utterly bereft of friends, left only with the likes of Nicaragua and Nauru to indulge it in its anachronistic “imperial fantasies”. Not really. Conflating … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged armenia, azerbaijan, belarus, central asia, europe, georgia, opinion poll, russia, russians, ukraine, western media
44 Comments
Sublime News #8 – #9
1. The revolution in Kyrgyzstan to be covered in Sublime News #10 – this issue is packed enough as it is. For now, read Kyrgyzstan and the Russian Resurgence (free Stratfor) for a summary. 2. Putin made a conciliatory speech on the 70th … Continue reading
Posted in Sublime News
Tagged afghanistan, asia, authoritarianism, caucasus, central asia, chechnya, china, climate change, coal, collapse, demography, economy, energy, humor, hungary, imperialism, india, iraq, islam, israel, kyrgyzstan, liberasty, mexico, middle east, military, news 2010, north korea, palestine, peak oil, poland, resource depletion, rise of the rest, russia, russophobes, shale gas, thermoeconomics, turkey, uk, ukraine, usa, venezuela, volcanos
9 Comments
The Transition 20 Years On: The Reckoning
It is now nearly 20 years since market reformers began liberalizing the economies of Eastern Europe, or as some smart-ass put it, trying to revive the fish in the centrally planned fish stews. These stews, cooked to diverse recipes from goulash … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Da Russophile
Tagged baltics, caucasus, central asia, economy, georgia, history, politics, russia, ukraine
16 Comments
The US Strategic Dilemma and Persian Deadlock
This is the second article of a three-part series about the Iranian Question – that is, the question of how the world is going to deal with the Islamic regime’s pursuit of a nuclear bomb, which is likely to be … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged central asia, china, economy, energy, international relations, iran, israel, medvedev, middle east, military, peak oil, poland, visegrad, vision
9 Comments
Shifting Winds: The End Of Pax Americana
Every once in a while, there occurs a major shift in the international arena. The First World War and its consequences were the seminal change of the last century, collapsing ancient empires and ushering in a new era of ethno-nationalist … Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged central asia, chaos, china, economy, energy, espionage, geopolitics, imperialism, international relations, iran, islam, israel, middle east, military, morale, nato, peak oil, poland, resource depletion, technology, ukraine, usa, vision, war
20 Comments
Reconsidering Parshev
In most Russian bookstores, there is a bookshelf or two dedicated to so-called “patriotic literature” – reappraisals of Stalin against “liberal revisionism”, overviews of Russia’s secret super-weapons, the exploits of its special forces and Russian theo-philosophy. Much of it is … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged agriculture, central asia, china, economy, geopolitics, georgia, history, morale, peak oil, resource depletion, ukraine, usa, vision
16 Comments
USA 2009 = USSR 1989 ?
With increasing signs of economic collapse, military overstretch and political problems, is the US doomed to go the way of the late USSR? Continue reading
Posted in Coffee House, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged central asia, communism, corruption, culture, economy, finance, geopolitics, human rights, humor, international relations, military, uk, usa
11 Comments