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...past few years, most every sentient being west of Smolensk has been aware that something very bad is happening in Russia. They don't elect their governors anymore. There are no major television stations that are free from Kremlin influence. The Duma always seems to do what the President wants. Edward Lucas, the Central and East European correspondent for the Economist, is here to tell us that, in fact, things are much, much worse than that. In The New Cold War: How the Kremlin Menaces Both Russia and the West, Lucas makes a powerful case that Russia hasn't simply...
While many of the details are known, Lucas offers the first comprehensive compendium of the Kremlin's major (and not so major) crimes against Russians and non-Russians alike. There's the 2003 arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the dismemberment of his Yukos oil empire. There's the 2007 alleged cyberwar Russia launched against Estonia in the wake of a flap surrounding a Soviet war memorial...
...favorite nickname for Harvard has always been “The Kremlin on the Charles.” There is something subversive in the name that touches the inner rebel in me—the idea that my school, however idealized by U.S. News & World Reports and The New York Times, is considered by some (or many) Americans to be a bastion of elitist, pinko revolutionaries...
...Obama and the nation should confront. But what interests me more about Marx’s conception of idiocy is its applicability to life here at Harvard: Maybe “Idiots on the Charles” is a better nickname for 21st century Cambridge than “Kremlin...
...recent realignments in foreign relations have seemed substantial - France's new engagement with the U.S.; musical chairs in the Kremlin; the Shi'a revival; the defeat of Australia's long-serving Prime Minister John Howard; indeed, the departure in June last year of Blair - none of them match the seismic shift expected on Nov. 4. Despite the growing power of China and India and a resurgent Russia, the election of a new U.S. President is still the biggest event in the international political calendar...