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Far More People Protested FOR Putin Than Against, But You Wouldn’t Know It From The Western Media

Posted on February 5, 2012 by AK

The above photo, part of a photo report by Ridus, shows the Anti-Orange protest at Poklonnaya Gora in Moscow on February 4th. Does that look like 35,000 people to you, let alone 20,000 or 15,000?Because those were the most commonly cited figures … Continue reading →

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Unofficial Early Voting For The Russian President

Posted on February 2, 2012 by AK
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Karlin Freedom Index 2012

Posted on January 24, 2012 by AK

This is the Karlin Freedom Index for 2012, a political classification system I formulated more than a year ago in response to systemic bias on the part of traditional “freedom indices” such as Freedom House and The Economist Democracy Index … Continue reading →

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Is The US Still A Liberal Democracy?

Posted on January 23, 2012 by AK

In the years since 9/11, the US has built a mosaic of national security powers that undermine its claim to be the “land of the free.” According to this useful summary by Jonathan Turley, these include: Assassination of its own … Continue reading →

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Translation: Sergey Lukyanenko – I Will Vote For Putin

Posted on January 23, 2012 by AK

Courtesy of Evgeny‘s comment at Mark Adomanis’ blog, I found a very interesting piece by Sergey Lukyanenko – the bestselling Russian sci-fi writer best known for his Night Watch series, which was later converted into Russia’s first blockbuster film in … Continue reading →

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New Year Special: 2012 Predictions

Posted on January 3, 2012 by AK

It’s been a great year! To recap, in rough chronological order, 2011 saw: The most popular post (with 562 comments and counting; granted, most of them consisting of Indians and Pakistanis flaming each other); Visualizing the Kremlin Clans (joint project … Continue reading →

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The Argument For Compulsory Voting In Russia

Posted on December 30, 2011 by AK

One of the central (I would argue, the central) conundrum of all discussions about Russian elections fraud at the macro-scale is that the major pieces of evidence simply don’t fit together. On the one hand, you have pre-elections polls that uniformly … Continue reading →

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United Russia Steals Votes, And The WSJ Steals Others’ Work

Posted on December 30, 2011 by AK

On December 28th, the WSJ published an article on “Russia’s Dubious Election” by Gregory White and Rob Barry (it’s behind a paywall, but you can read it here). In it they described the most famous argument for the 15% Club (i.e., … Continue reading →

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List Of Estimates On Fraud In Russia’s 2011 Duma Elections

Posted on December 27, 2011 by AK

Despite Olga Kryshtanovskaya’s disapproval, I thought it would be interesting and useful to compile a comprehensive list of blogger, pundit and “expert” opinions on the extent of fraud in the 2011 Duma elections. Interspersed among these opinions and analyses are results from … Continue reading →

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Measuring Churov’s Beard: The Mathematics Of Russian Election Fraud

Posted on December 26, 2011 by AK

In the aftermath of the 2011 Duma elections, the Russian blogosphere was abuzz with allegations of electoral fraud. Many of these were anecdotal or purely rhetorical in nature; some were more concrete, but variegated or ambiguous. A prime example of … Continue reading →

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