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Occupy Moscow: Attention, but Little Traction
Thursday, June 7, 2012By WPJ Photo: Shutterstockby Maria Brock and Natasha YarotskayaTime and again, the Moscow protesters are contradicting those who have long predicted their demise. Young, educated,...
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Russia, Syria and the West: The Fight Over Intervention
Wednesday, June 27, 2012By Ed HancoxIt seems like the stage has been set yet again for another standoff between that international grouping commonly known as “the West” - as led by the United States -...
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The Russian Soul Protests
Wednesday, August 15, 2012By WPJby Natasha YarotskayaRussia by mind comprehended cannot be Nor by wide arshins measured: Its uniqueness be that— In Russia is possible only but to believe.(Tiutchev, I....
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Why Pussy Riot Is Not The Most Important Political Case In Russia
Thursday, August 23, 2012By Ed HancoxIn the space of a week, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Yekaterina Samutsevich, and Maria Alyokhina have arguably become the world's most famous political prisoners...
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Diplomacy and Risk After Benghazi
Dewaine FarriaSecurity is a thankless trade. Is diplomacy similarly underappreciated? The deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya on...
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PEN 2013: Critical Cold Wars
Thursday, May 2, 2013By Shaun Randol"We have a Cold War on the Russian soul," said Mikhail Shishkin. Lines are drawn, barricades are up. On one side are the nationalists and isolationists who proclaim...
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Brother for Sister: Knights in Shining Armor?
Friday, November 15, 2013By Mariya YefremovaRussian streets can be sinister (via)Russia Beyond the Headlines recently published a story (Russian original) on a new initiative in Russia called Brother...
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Spotlight Ukraine: Deconstructing a Global Conflict
Wednesday, April 9, 2014By Ed HancoxNight in the Ukraine (1871) by Ivan Aivazovsky. The artist was born (1817) and died (1900) in Feodosiya, Crimea. Conflicts between nations do not simply happen; they...
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PEN 2014: Central Europe, 1989 and Now
Tuesday, May 6, 2014By Chris HaddixMaidan Square, Kyiv, December 2013Central Europe is back again. Rather, the question concerning Central Europe is again in urgent need of an answer. Milan Kundera...
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Reading Red Spectres: Russian Gothic Tales
Thursday, July 17, 2014By Nina ZumelAs Chris Baldick pointed out in his introduction to The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales, Gothic fiction is concerned with "the tyranny of the past" and its continuing...
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