Russia

2009

Missed Chances

Jochen Hellbeck : Non-Fiction

Stephen F. Cohen's Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives surveys a political landscape of reform, struggle and reconciliation.
Evicted From His Own Head

Elaine Blair : Fiction

In the stories of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, the landscape of the Russian revolution is hostile territory, and terrifying in its scope.
Gorbachev on 1989

Katrina vanden Heuvel & Stephen F. Cohen : Cold War

A wide-ranging Nation interview with the former Soviet president.
Russian Journalists Still Under Threat

Adam Federman : Human Rights & Civil Liberties

Three years after the assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politikovskaya, impunity reigns.
The US and Russia: Missed Opportunities

MSNBC

NYU Russia studies professor Stephen Cohen explains how the US got involved in a new cold war with Russia.
Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives

GRIT TV

Stephen Cohen, a professor of Russian History at New York University weighs in on the future of US-Russian relations.
Lobbying for Autocrats

Mark Ames : Georgia (Democratic Republic of)

A senator and congressman argue that free trade is the best way to improve US relations with Russia and Georgia. What's in it for us?
For a New US Policy Toward Russia

Anatol Lieven : US Foreign Policy

The Obama administration simply cannot afford a confrontation with Russia, given the challenges we face elsewhere.

Editorial Malpractice

Mark Ames : Washington Post

Deconstructing Russia coverage on the Washington Post editorial page.
Cold War Hawks Nesting With Obama

Robert Scheer : Barack Obama

How can a President Obama improve US relations with Russia if some of his closest advisors are unrepentant hawks from the cold war era?
The Cold War That Wasn't

Mark Ames : Media

Deconstructing the New York Times fairy tale about how nasty Russia invaded innocent Georgia.
From Gorbachev to Putin

Robert V. Daniels : Non-Fiction

Five authors provide differing views of the post-glasnost era and of the failed promise of democratic reform in Russia.
McCain's Kremlin Ties

Mark Ames & Ari Berman : John McCain

He may talk tough about Russia, but John McCain's political advisors have advanced Putin's imperial ambitions.
End of Iraq's Awakening?

Robert Dreyfuss : Iraq War

A new and growing Sunni resistance movement in Iraq could shatter the false sense of post-surge calm--and it might get Russian support.
Sarah-geddon

Mark Ames : Presidential Election 2008

McCain's running mate says she's ready to launch World War III, but on whose behalf?
Toward a New New Cold War

Alexander Cockburn : Foreign Affairs

The initiating party for our next cold confrontation with Russia most certainly was the United States.
Stalin's Victims Return

Stephen F. Cohen : History

The freeing of the "zeks" confronted Russia with living memories of the Terror.