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Russia’s New Fear Factor
How the War Is Driving a Wave of Purges and Suicides Among the Country’s Elites
September 8, 2025
Russia’s False Euphoria
Trump’s Outreach to Putin Has Shifted Russian Opinion—but Failed to End the War
May 9, 2025
Who Pulled Down the Iron Curtain?
Debating the End of the Cold War
Andrei Kolesnikov; Niall Ferguson
Response Mar/Apr 2025
The Cold War Putin Wants
Why Russia Seeks to Change, Not End, the Conflict in Ukraine
January 23, 2025
Putin’s Children
Why Younger Russians Are Not Rebelling—and What It Means for the Future
October 15, 2024
Putin’s New War Economy
Why Soviet-Style Military Spending—and State Intervention—Won’t Save Russia
July 10, 2024
Russia Is Burning Up Its Future
How Putin’s Pursuit of Power Has Hollowed Out the Country and Its People
March 7, 2024
Putin’s Fragile Compact With the Russian People
A Conversation With Andrei Kolesnikov
Podcast January 11, 2024
Putin’s War Party
How Russia’s Election Will Validate Autocracy—and Permanent Conflict With the West
December 1, 2023
The Plot Against Russia
How Putin Revived Stalinist Anti-Americanism to Justify a Botched War
May 25, 2023
How Russians Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the War
The Pliant Majority Sustaining Putin’s Rule
February 1, 2023
The Hypnotist in the Kremlin
How Putin Has Used Fear and Disinformation to Neutralize the Russian Public
September 9, 2022
A Coercive History Lesson From Vladimir Putin
Triumphalism Replaces Reckoning as Russia Remembers the Soviet Past
October 29, 2020
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