From Boston to Grozny
Oppression, Marginalization, and the Chechen Diaspora.
On the Newsstand:Russia
Grab the Rogaine: The Bald-Hairy Pattern in Russian Leaders
It’s rare that my Facebook News Feed yields anything too out of the ordinary, but last night, a click on a friend’s link eventually led me to this NPR article on a curious pattern in Russia. When the Communists took over in Russia in 1917, the first leader, Vladimir Lenin, was bald. His successor, Joseph Stalin, ... Read More
Moscow and Beijing: The Uneasy Partnership
On the geopolitical stakes of Sino-Russian cooperation.
HPR Winter 2012 – Hacking Homeland
What are the reasons that we should be concerned about cybersecurity today? Staff writer Tom Silver '16 talks about his article in the 2012 winter issue.
A New Beginning for Georgia
With the surprise election of billionaire Bidzina Ivanashvili, Georgian Dream presents an alternative to standard second-world power transitions.
Saving Israel with Secularism
Israel is growing more religious, threatening its very cultural foundations.
Joshua Rubenstein on Trotsky’s Revolutionary Life
"Trotsky’s logic had been, with the revolution, everything is possible."
Election 2012: The World Votes
Citizens of France, Egypt, Mexico, and Venezuela head to the polls this year
Review of Mikhail Gorbachev’s Memoirs
The fact that Gorbachev is associated with the dissolution of the Soviet Union has made him a much admired man in the West, a near hero. His role is the reunification of Germany and the ‘liberation’ from Soviet overlordship of the remainder of Eastern Europe earned him a Nobel Peace prize in 1990. However in the much diminished successor state of the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation, Gorbachev is seen in a very different light. Thus a chasm exists in the perception of Gorbachev as a person and as a politician between Russia and the West.
The End of the Dreams of a Generation
As men decide to walk only on Earth, it seems as if the dreams of an entire generation – to walk among the stars, to go where no man has gone before – are slowly falling into the ancient pillars of history.
China’s Ambitious Future in Space
As China Announces Bold New Plans for its Space Program, the United States Considers the Possible Militarism of the Space Race
China and Belarus: A Special Relationship
The People’s Republic keeps Europe’s last dictatorship afloat
Numbered Days: Bailing Out Europe’s Last Dictator
Once a mark of his power, Belarus’ economy, now in near free fall, may finally bring an end to Lukashenko
St. Petersburg’s Chinese Towers
The economic foundations of a new Sino-Russian "strategic partnership"
On Being a Feminist in Russia
Are Russian women subject to patriarchal cultural expectations, or simply following a set of harmless social conventions?
