online archive
5:00PM
NOV 6 2007
Why Putin wins
From NYRB, Sergei Kovalev on why Putin wins. From Der Spiegel, an article on Russian youth and the Putin cult known as the Nashi movement. From Chronicles, here's an article by the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, that was offered to the editors of Foreign Affairs for publication and rejected. A look at how Russia is pouring billions in oil profits into nanotech race. A review of One Soldier's War in Chechnya by Arkady Babchenko. A review of Beslan: The Tragedy of School No. 1 by Timothy Phillips. An October for us, for Russia, and for the whole world: Appeal of 17 Russian intellectuals and artists. A review of The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947–2005. Orlando Figes on why his archive of Russian voices will preserve the truth about Stalin's reign of terror. From The Moscow Times, a review of Simon Sebag Montefiore's Young Stalin (and more and more); a massive social advertising campaign is covering Moscow's billboards with paternalistic advice on everything from looking beautiful to sex; and how bloggers are giving birth to a vigorous consumer democracy in Russia.
