...Michael McFaul Policies chosen by Putin, not innate forces of history, culture, or tradition, pushed Russia in a more autocratic direction … © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California Michael McFaul Russia Vladimir Putin history...

... The Vory Russia's Super Mafia organized crime Russia Soviet Union corruption Vladimir Putin Donald Trump Hundreds of books, in dozens of lan-guages, have been written about the so-called Russian Mafiya and the vory, the thieves of Soviet and post-Soviet organized- crime gangs. Many...

... no longer speaks to her mother who, as the saying goes, greeted Putin with bread and salt. She thinks the grandmother indirectly caused the boy s death. Similar stories are painfully common. In addition to such rifts, there have been rever- sals of normal roles, with young children calming mothers...

...; the Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Moscow; and the leader of the traditional Buddhist Sangkha of Russia. In a group portrait taken at the event and post- ed on the Kremlin s website, the patriarch is stand- ing at the front, next to President Vladimir Putin, while the other religious leaders...

... that Russian state tele- vision has supported President Vladimir Putin, ignoring or vili- fying his competitors, Fox News was a key factor in Trump s vic- tory. This blinkered pattern of news consumption by a sizable portion of the US electorate leaves the American media vulnerable to attacks by politicians...

... civil war Islamic State Barack Obama Russia Vladimir Putin Bashar al-Assad Turkey Libya Iraq Iran Middle East 337 The single most important external factor in the Syrian war s trajectory was the set of foreign policy beliefs Obama held well before the first shot was fired...

... Soviet Union Berlin Wall Boris Yeltsin Vladimir Putin © 2016 Current History. All rights reserved. 2016 The Regents of the University of California Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets , by Svetlana Alexievich Random House , 2016 It has now been a quarter-century since...

... movement, the All-Russia People s Front (ONF) proposed by then Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in 2011 as a response to Moscow protests against election rigging, without any real attempt to im- prove their material lot. Incomes for manual labor- ers have fallen alarmingly since 2009. These and other efforts...

...Alexander Etkind Three recent books about Russia and its authoritarian leader offer different theories on how a clique of former spies seized control. The worst answer is to blame the victim. The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War , by Arkady Ostrovsky...

... foreign relations Russia Syria European Union United States coup attempt Vladimir Putin Recep Tayyip Erdogan NATO Fethullah Gulen PERSPECTIVE Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdog an s visit to St. Petersburg on August 9 was expected to create headlines around the globe, and it certainly...

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... Alexis Tsipras Yanis Varoufakis Panos Kammenos Independent Greeks euro European Commission International Monetary Fund Angela Merkel Vladimir Putin George Papandreou 108 To the Brink and Back in Greece MANOS MATSAGANIS [O]rdinary Greeks intuitively understood better than many...

... of the University of California Samuel Greene Vladimir Putin Russia authoritarianism Kremlin Orthodox church Ukraine sanctions economy protests The verdict delivered on August 17, 2015, by Mikhail Piotrovsky, director of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, was unambiguous: Our society...

... of California Andrew Wilson Ukraine Kiev Maidan Donbas corruption oligarchs elections Crimea Orange Revolution Viktor Yanukovych Vladimir Putin 259 A new nation is arguably in the making. However, the economy has collapsed, and not enough has changed in the political system. . . . [I]t...

...Alexander Etkind [A]lthough the level of political control in Putin's Russia is not much different from what was typical for the late Soviet period, the means of control have changed entirely. Second in a series on public spheres around the world . © 2015 Current History. All rights reserved...

... Sperling Vladimir Putin machismo masculinity nationalism Crimea NATO sanctions Cold War media PERSPECTIVE Since his return to the Russian presidency in 2012, Vladimir Putin has grown increasingly popular at home while his foreign policy has raised blood pressures in the capitals of NATO s...

... Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Collective Security Treaty Organization New Silk Road Economic Belt oil gas pipelines Xi Jinping Vladimir Putin 272 China is the increasingly dominant power in the region, but it is acting in full concordance with Russia. China and Russia s Soft Competition...

...Mark Kramer Nearly every senior official in Poland and the Baltic countries expressed great unease. Political leaders and military commanders in the region increasingly warned that Putin was intent on undermining NATO's resolve to protect their countries. © 2015 Current History. All rights...

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