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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: russians
Russia’s Population Is Now Growing
The preliminary results of the 2010 Census are out, showing that the population has fallen to 142.9 million. This compares to 145.2 million counted in the previous 2002 Census. Most headlines have emphasized the falling population aspect of “Putin’s decade”. … Continue reading
Russia’s Demographic Resilience V
I’ve posted Russia’s demographic story for 2010 at Arctic Progress: Russia’s Population Registers Small Decline In 2010. In summary, the excess deaths from the once-in-10,000-years heatwave canceled out most of the increase in births, causing the rate of natural decrease … Continue reading
Three Hypotheses About Demographic Reporting In Nezavisimaya Gazeta
Russia’s demographic revival stalled in 2010, after several years of fast improvements. In January-September, though the birth rate increased by 16,700 souls on the same period last year, it was counterbalanced by an increase in deaths by 37,200 – all … Continue reading
RETRACTED: Battle Of The Calendars, Or: Russian Liberals Are So Unpopular They Have To Invent Their Own Pin-Up Girls
On Putin’s 58th birthday this October 7th, some female students from the Journalism Department at Moscow State University (MGU) decided to make him a special present. The calendar features the intrepid heroines in states of considerable undress, posing daintily and suggesting, … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged calendars, human rights, idiotism, journalism, liberasty, liz anderson, miriam elder, politics, putin, russia, russians, russophobes, russophobia, western hypo, western media
11 Comments
Question: Who Rules All The Russians?
What do you all think? Who’s the most powerful man in Russia? Who’ll be the next term President?* It is the conventional wisdom amongst the Western commentariat, political analysts, and ordinary Russians (not often that these groupings agree with each … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged authoritarianism, kremlinology, medvedev, politics, putin, russia, russians, russophobes
14 Comments
Boris Berezovsky: Godfather of Strategy-31 Abroad?
EDIT: This article has been translated into Russian at Inosmi.Ru (Борис Березовский: крестный отец “Стратегии-31″ за границей?) and into French by Alexandre Latsa (Boris Berezovsky: Parrain de Strategy 31 à l’étranger?). In recent months, there has coalesced yet another, fleeting … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged action 31, berezovsky, goldfarb, liberasty, politics, putin, russia, russians, russophobes, sidelnikov, western hypocrisy, western media
70 Comments
The Kremlinologist Catechism
This is a reprint of my article for the Sep/Oct 2010 issue of Russian Life magazine. It is a condensed version of Rosstat and Levada are Russophobia’s Bane. Enjoy! There is a Catechism that dominates American discourse on Russia today. Just … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged authoritarianism, core article, economy, human rights, liberasty, me, medvedev, morale, opinion poll, politics, putin, russia, russians, russophobes, western hypocrisy, western media
9 Comments
Russophobe Hack Exposed, or: The Misadventures of Dorothée Olliéric of France-2
So you know how the Western commentariat carries on about how Russia Today fawns over the Kremlin and propagates anti-Western propaganda, while shamelessly peddling itself as a paragon of universal truth and uncompromising objectivity? Welcome to the next installment in the never-ending … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile
Tagged blogging, corruption, drought, france, russia, russians, russophobes, western hypocrisy, western media
9 Comments
Interview with Peter Lavelle (Russia Today)
The next installment of our Watching the Russia Watchers series at S/O features an interview with Peter Lavelle, the main political analyst at the Russia Today TV network, host of its CrossTalk debate show and Untimely Thoughts blogger. (He also … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Watching the Russia Watchers
Tagged blogging, chechnya, collapse, corruption, futurism, georgia, global warming, human rights, international relations, interview, islam, islamophobia, israel, journalism, palestine, politics, putin, rise of the rest, russia, russians, russophobes, usa, western hypocrisy, western media
13 Comments
Russia Burning: not Apocalypse, but its Prelude
This post is a meta-commentary on media coverage of Russia’s drought and wildfires. Now make no mistake, I admire the yeoman work of some journalists in covering Russia burning: no doubt a few will even make their way into the … Continue reading
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion
Tagged agriculture, climate change, collapse, corruption, demography, drought, futurism, global warming, pollution, russia, russians, vision, western media
59 Comments