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• The Russian Spectrum: An Inosmi In English
• Should I Give Up Already?
• The English Inosmi: The Russophere vs. The Russian Spectrum
• The Russia Debate – The New Forum For Russia Watchers
• Demography And Leaping To Conclusions
• The Russian Imperialist Genocide In Chechnya
• Angsty Chechens Come To Boston
• DLotK Progress: The Chapters
• Storm In A BVI Teacup
• A Brief Intro To The Navalny Case
• The Anti-Magnitsky List
• Mark Feygin Treating Pussies Badly
• The West Made Its Bed, Now Russia Will Lie In China’s
• Navalny’s Promises To Put Putin In Jail
• A Demographic Zastoi In Russia?
• And They Say Mark Adomanis Is A Putin Stooge
• Why De-Russification Isn’t On The Cards
• Explaining Russia’s Economic Slowdown
• Russia Moving Into The Fastlane
• Russians Produce 7 Cars For Every 10 They Buy
• Russian Is The Internet’s Second Most Popular Language
• Alex Mercouris On The Cyprus Deal
• Berezovsky RIP
• The Western Media’s War Against Cyprus And Russia
• The Juche Response To British Lawlessness
• A Values Chasm That Can’t Be Bridged… At Least For Now
• Kathy Lally Didn’t Get Any Flowers Today. How Sad.
• Georgians Are The Biggest Stalinists
• What I Learned From Freedom House…
• Russia Now Produces As Many Cars As The USSR Did At Its Peak
• Are Caucasians Stealing Russian University Places? The Data Says, “Probably Not.”
• The Decline Of Russian Skinheads
• Russia’s Corruption In Comparative International Perspective
• If Sunlight Is The Best Disinfectant, Why Is The Russian Mafia State Opening The Blinds?
• The Rapid And Mostly Unnoticed Decline Of Abortion In Russia
• My Article For Komsomolskaya Pravda On Press Freedoms In Russia And The West
• FINAL POLL: Russia Voices Or RossPress?
• The Russian Cross Becomes A Hexagon
• A Chess Game To The Death
• Vote On The Name For The “English Inosmi”
• Da Russophile Is Now Five Years Old
• Russia’s Budget Is Getting More Transparent
• Liberal Butthurt Over The Depardieu Defection
• Open Thread #2
• The Guardian Censors You Even If You Don’t Overtly Disagree With Them
• Andrew Ryvkin’s Strange Ideas About The Russian Economy
• Da Russophile’s Predictions For 2013
• So Who’s The New Clown At The Economist’s Russia Desk?
• The Kremlin Does A Very Clever Thing
• Major Misconceptions About The Dima Yakovlev Law
• The Guardian On China And Russia
• Translation: A Hell Of Their Own Making
• Obama, Romney, And The Reset
• Quick Impressions On Ukraine Elections 2012
• The Flight From Reason – The West’s Cold War Against Russia
• Putin’s Birthday, Birth Of A Legacy
• What Happened In Georgia Was An Oligarchic Coup
• Is Konstantin von Eggert Taking A Leaf From Johann Hari?
• Translation: Russia Today Hired You To Talk About The Cynicism And Wickedness Of The West (Konstantin von Eggert)
• Konstantin von Eggert: A Case Study In Democratic Journalism (part 1)
• In Which I Become A Liberast: Criticism Of Russia’s Expulsion Of USAID
• Triumphs Of Kremlinology
• Russia’s Demography Continues To Exceed Even *My* Most Optimistic Predictions
• Should The US Fight A New Cold War With Russia, Or Cooperate With Russia To Integrate The Gap?
• So Apparently Germany Is A Christian Theocracy
• US-Russia.org, New Site For Russia Watchers
• Blast From The Past: What Jim Rogers Said About Russia In 2003
• Natalia Zubarevich – The Four Russias
• Russia’s New Anti-Corruption Law
• FINAL: Vote For Best Title
• Vote On The Title!
• Books I Will Be (re-)Reading While Writing My Own
• Strategic Direction Of Da Russophile
• Is Luke Harding Taking A Leaf From Figes?
• Russia Is Now An Internet Society
• Authoritarian Parallels
• A Genuine Case Of Miscarried Justice
• Boris Releases His Eighth (?) Dud
• kovane On Russia’s WTO Accession
• Russia’s Bizarre Preoccupation With The Idea Of The “National Idea”
• My Piece On Pussy Riot At Al Jazeera
• Mystery Within An Enigma
• Mid-Year Demography Update
• Russia Overtaking USSR, Converging With West, On Food, Housing Consumption
• It’s A Culture War, Stupid
• Alexander Mercouris – Legal Analysis Of The Pussy Riot Case
• Open Thread #1
• The Guardian’s Pussy Worship
• Will Russia Record Natural Population Growth This Year?
• Alexander Mercouris – The Guardian And Putin
• Chinese Netizens Praise Russian Democracy, Accountability
• Last Word On Jews In Russia
• Mark Adomanis Surprised Russians Don’t Hate Jews
• Was Russia In A Demographic Apocalypse In The First Place?
• Alex Dryden, A Hack’s Hack
• ECHR Rules 2003 Elections Fair, Derided As Kremlin Flunkies By Liberals
• Russian Wages Are Fast Converging To Western Levels
• The World’s Sleaziest Magazine Plumbs New Lows
• More Russians Vacationing Abroad
• Parting Thoughts On Euro 2012
• Russia’s Gastronomic Revolution?
• Does UEFA Hate Russia?
• The 5 Types of Russian American
• Edward Lozansky – America Hates A Russia Of Its Own Invention
• Jaan Kaplinski – From Confrontation To Reconciliation
• The Anti-Clan Revolution
• Hipsters And Democratic Journalists Might Not Support Putin, But The Middle Class Does
• Ernst & Young: Russian Corruption Is Rather Banal By World Standards, And Improving
• Blast From The Past: What Andrew Miller Predicted About Russia In 2000
• Alex Mercouris On Russian Journalists
• Proof Of Genetic Memory
• Russian Journalists Are Far Safer Than Mexican Journalists, Ordinary Russians, And Their Own Counterparts Under Yeltsin
• The “Last Hurrah” Of The Liberal Bloggers And Hipsters
• The World Russia Forum 2012: How To Counter Media Bias Against Russia?
• Sex, Scandal, And The Russian Opposition
• Russia’s Demography Continues To Improve Rapidly In First 3 Months Of 2012
• Liberals Can’t Be Appeased
• Where Do The French Presidential Candidates Stand on Russia?
• A Meeting With A Demographer
• Assange @RT: Russia Provides A Platform To Western Dissidents
• Peter Savodnik: Portrait Of A Democratic Journalist
• Is Khodorkovsky A Political Prisoner? Read The ECHR Judgments Before Quacking
• Potemkin Georgia: Exposing The Lies Of The Saakashvili PR Machine
• Moscow Isn’t Another Country
• Seven Myths About The Russian Elections
• Link – Move to Da Russophile
• List Of Estimates On Fraud In Russia’s 2012 Presidential Elections
• Why Statistics Only Support 3%-6% Fraud
• The World’s Sleaziest Magazine On Putin’s Election Victory
• Quiz: Did This Happen In Russia Or A Democratic Country?
• Prokhorov, President Of Londongrad
• Russia’s Mortality From Vices On The Decline
• Why Golos’ Own Figures Support Only 3%-6% Fraud
• The Provincialization Of Russian Electoral Fraud
• Winners Of The Election Predictions Contest
• Preliminary Thoughts On The Election Results
• My (Second) Article On The Russian Elections At Al Jazeera
• Predict The Results Of The 2012 Russian Presidential Election
• Translation: Sergey Zhuravlev – The Reversal Of The “Russian Cross”
• Making Sense Of Russia’s Arms Binge
• Russia’s Demographic Crisis Has Ended
• And The Wheel Spins On
• Navalny’s Petty Racism
• Whiskey Trickles Into Russia’s Drinking Culture
• Far More People Protested FOR Putin Than Against, But You Wouldn’t Know It From The Western Media
• Unofficial Early Voting For The Russian President
• Are Russians As Rich As Czechs?
• Translation: Sergey Lukyanenko – I Will Vote For Putin
• The Argument For Compulsory Voting In Russia
• United Russia Steals Votes, And The WSJ Steals Others’ Work
• List Of Estimates On Fraud In Russia’s 2011 Duma Elections
• Measuring Churov’s Beard: The Mathematics Of Russian Election Fraud
• What They Say After: The Post-Elections Polls
• Al Jazeera On Elections And White Ribbons
• Kremlin Oligarch Brutally Censors Long-Suffering Russian Media (From Printing Gratuitous Profanities)
• My Article On The Russian Elections At Al Jazeera
• All Opinion Polls Relevant To Russia’s 2011 Duma Elections
• A Quick Note On Russia’s Duma Elections 2011
• Putin The Peaceful?
• BRIC’s of Stability: Why Occupy Wall Street Isn’t Coming To Moscow Or Beijing
• Russia Demographic Update VII
• Unraveling The Tandem Switch
• Maksim Schweiz – It’s Time To Shove Off To Belarus!
• Time To Shove Off! And What Then?…
• But Always, A Hero Comes Home
• The Russophobes Were Right… (About The Wrong Country)
• Nikolai Starikov – How Russian Liberals Create Russophobe Myths
• OPEN DISCUSSION: Russia’s Economy In The Next Global Crisis
• Russia’s Economic “Stagnation” In Global Perspective
• The Stalinist Drug Warrior: The Real Medvedev, Part 2
• DAM, What A President!: The Real Medvedev, Part 1
• Names Of The Oligarchs On A Map Of The Motherland*
• A Tale of the Beggar And The Billionaire
• Russia’s Brain Drain Abates, Just As Western Media Starts Hyping It
• Interview with Mark Chapman (The Kremlin Stooge)
• Edward McMillan-Scott, Lord Of Western Tropes On Russia
• La Russophobe Strikes Back
• Are Russian Elections Rigged?: Opinion Polls Speak Louder Than Western Rhetoric
• Given Free Publicity On NTV, Khodorkovsky Only Incriminates Himself Further
• On The Necessity Of Subjecting Kremlinologists (And Social Scientists) To Market Discipline
• Russia Demographic Update VI
• How NOT To Be A Whistleblower In Russia: The Case Of Yevgeny Starshov
• In Which La Russophobe Interviews The Russophile Sociopath Blogging At Sublime Oblivion
• Interview with Craig Willy (Letters from Europe)
• The Uncertain Future Of Cheap Russian Booze
• The Top 10 Russia Blogs In 2011
• Russia’s Population Is Now Growing
• Guardian Censorship: Some Comments Are Freer Than Others
• Russia’s Demographic Resilience V
• Luzhkov Flees To Albion On Heels Of Russian Corruption Investigation
• Is This Blog Anti-American?
• Visualizing The Kremlin Clans
• REPRINT: Is Putin Pitiable, Or Is The Financial Times Corrupt?
• Exercises in Banality: The Moral Preening By Khodorkovsky Apologists
• REPRINT: Wikileaks And The South Ossetia War
• Chechnya, A Once And Future War?
• Russia Arming The Rest, And US Views On This
• Cable Intermezzo: A Caucasus Wedding
• Wikileaks As A Mirror On The West
• Three Hypotheses About Demographic Reporting In Nezavisimaya Gazeta
• A Response To Vadim Nikitin’s Arguments For The “Liberation” Of Khodorkovsky And The Kuriles
• Trolling The Liberasts About Khodorkovsky
• Exiled Russian Dissident Yury Luzhkov Condemns Putin’s Corrupt, Stalinist Regime
• Why Russia And China Won’t Fight
• Russia Updates: Luzhkov, Rearmament, GDP
• The End of Western Freedom (and why Russians should ignore their hypocritical lectures)
• Boris Berezovsky: Godfather of Strategy-31 Abroad?
• The Kremlinologist Catechism
• Russophobe Hack Exposed, or: The Misadventures of Dorothée Olliéric of France-2
• The Death of Sergei Tretyakov & Spook Flame Wars
• Interview with Peter Lavelle (Russia Today)
• Russia Burning: Not Apocalypse, but its Prelude
• Translation: Russia’s Phantom Tandem, Real Triumvirate and the Kremlin Clan Wars
• Interview with Kevin Rothrock (A Good Treaty)
• The Russia Watchers In Their Own Words…
• Russia’s Demographic Resilience IV
• The Red Slope to Caviar Road
• Russia’s Roads to Nowhere, or: build Railways instead!
• Some Updates on Russia’s Economy
• Rosstat and Levada are Russophobia’s Bane
• The Boris Bombshell. Two Years Later. Still a Dud.
• Why Russia is cemented to the other BRICs
• Russia isn’t hated by (most of) its neighbors
• Crisis Demography in Eurasia
• The People’s Choice, or how Ukrainians are learning to stop worrying and love Eurasia
• Reconciling Stalin with Victory
• Why Russians like Putin’s Russia
• A Short Guide to the Top 10 Russia Blogs
• Translation: On Liberasts and Liberasty
• In which I criticize Vladimir Putin
• Paul Goble, Promethean Propagandist
• The Transition 20 Years On: The Reckoning
• Russia’s Demographic Resilience III
• Regathering of the Russian Lands
• Voice of the People Part 3, Cont.
• Russia’s Sex Traditions
• Interview @ Siberian Light
• 10 Myths about Russia’s Demography
• Lessons from Byzantium
• Defending the Loop
• Russia’s Sisyphean Loop
• Russia’s “Abortion Apocalypse”: А был ли мальчик?
• Soviet Resilience under Fire
• Russia’s Demographic Resilience II
• Fear and Fervor under Stalinist Industrialization
• The Nazi-Soviet Pact as Second Munich
• Perils of Water
• Translation: Ksenia Larina – Radio Liberty, The Liberty of Mendacity
• New Russia-Georgia War?
• Reconsidering Parshev
• Missing the Forest for the Trees
• Categorizing the Russia Debate
• Review of “The Prodigal Superpower” (S. Rosefielde)
• Top 50 Russophobe Myths
• Responses to common Russophobe “Arguments”
• Manipulating Russia’s Manipulation of History
• Through the Looking Glass at Russia’s Demography
• Kremlin Dreams Sometimes Come True
• Translation: The Case of the “Stalinist” Textbook
• Putvedev is Russia’s White Rider
• Russia’s Demographic Resilience
• Best Designed Russia Blogs
• Victory Day Special: The Poisonous Myths of the Eastern Front
• Rite of Spring: Russia Fertility Trends
• Grenade Fishing on the Potomac, Or: The Idiocy of George F. Will
• Twitter Terror: Unraveling the Unrest in Moldova
• Farewell, Readers!
• Decoupling from the Unwinding
• Translation: Tatyana Korchevnaya – On Liberal Web Brigades
• Comrade Kasparov – Charlatan or Bolshevik?
• Myth of the Yellow Peril
• Myth of the Russian AIDS Apocalypse
• Voice of the People (since July 2008)
• Hubris in the Heartland
• Da Russophile, a Year On
• Russia Economic Crisis III: On the Importance of Self-Sufficiency in Liquids
• Russia Economy Crisis II: Anatomy of the Crisis
• Russia Economy Crisis I: How Red will Russia Get?
• Russia’s Fertility Future
• The Corpse Stumbles On, Unaware it’s Already Dead
• A Gem (or rather, a Ring) from Lucas
• Congratulations, America!
• Editorial: Halloween Special – Russia of the Dead
• The Great Debate
• Some Thoughts on the Financial Crisis
• Ukraine, Georgia and Latvia, Beacons of Freedom
• Russia to Bail Out Iceland?
• More on Deconstructing Russophobia
• Russia’s Soft WMD
• The Unfathomable Depths of Western Hypocrisy
• Schröder, Captain (of What Should be) Obvious
• The Other Point of View
• Military Lessons of the Ossetian War
• Saakashvilisms
• Deconstructing Russophobia
• Russia Blog Weighs In
• Comprehensive Outline of Russia’s Point of View on 2008 War of Ossetia
• Saakashvili, Laughing Stock of the Civilized World
• Western Hypocrisy Lambasted Before the World
• The Western Media, Craven Shills for their Neocon Masters
• Flare-up in the Caucasus – This Time It’s Serious
• Demography III – Faces of the Future
• News 21 July: Expansion amidst Turbulence
• News 2 May: Russia’s Second Oil Peak
• Demography II – Out of the Death Spiral
• Demography I – The Russian Cross Reversed?
• News 7 Apr: NATO Founders, Western Media Deconstructed
• More Reflections on Election Fraud
• Lying Liars and their Lies
• Lovely Levada
• News 30 March: The Paradoxes of Russophobia
• Russophile Core Articles
• Top 10 Russophobe Myths
• I Appear on Al-Jazeera
• The People Speak: Poll #1 Results, US Presidential Candidates
• News 19 Mar: It Takes 2 (or 3) to Tango in Human Rights
• Flotsam and Jetsam: Election Entertainment
• Annals of Media Madness – The Trouble with the Economist
• News 2 Mar
• News 8 Feb
• News 31 Jan
• News 25 Jan
• Annals of Resurgent Russia – CIA World Factbook 2008
• Hiatus/Plans
• News 16 Jan
• Core Article: What We Believe
• News 14 Jan
• Annals of Resurgent Russia – It’s the Economy (in 2007), Stupid!
• News 13 Jan
• Mailbag: Back from a Russian Century?
• News 11 Jan
• Towards a New Russian Century?
• News 10 Jan
• Annals of Western Hypocrisy – Georgia Presidential Elections 2008
• Reading Russia Right
• Welcome to Da Russophile