I am a Russian repatriate, blogger, and intelligence researcher.

My primary blog is at Substack, where I write about Russia, geopolitics, psychometrics, and transhumanism.

Start here if you’re new to my work.

Classic Posts

Politics & Geopolitics

• Introduction to Comprehensive Military Power (2015)
• Sinotriumph 101 (2018)
• PEW Confirms “Soviet Freezer” Theory (2018)

HBD/IQ

• Through A Glass Ceiling Darkly: Racial IQ Disparities And The Wealth Of Nations (2012)
• Analysis Of China’s PISA 2009 Results (2012)
• Our Biorealistic Future (2017)
• Coffee Salon Demographics (2018)
• When All You Have is a Hajnal Hammer… (2018)
• The Idiocy Of The Average – And Why It Matters (2018)
• The Geography of the Noosphere (2019)

History

• Introduction to Apollo’s Ascent (2015)
• The Ancient Greeks Weren’t All Geniuses (2015)
• A Short History of the 20th Century (2018)

Futurism & Transhumanism

• A Short History of the Third Millennium (2016)
• What Is the Maximum Population Earth Can Support? (2019)
• The Cognitive Chain of Being: A New Approach to Animal Rights (2019)
• The Katechon Hypothesis (2019)

Russia

• The Kremlinologist Catechism (2010)
• A PR Disaster: Five Views on Pussy Riot’s War (2012)
• The 5 Types of Russian American (2012)
• The Russian Cross Becomes A Hexagon (2013)
• Russia and the Depression That Wasn’t (2015)
• Russian Support of Stalin Is Tribal (2016)
• Trump Is Factually Right on Crimea (2016)
• Russian Nationalism 101 (2017)
• Russia’s Technological Backwardness (2018)
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Putin Again (2019)
• Russia’s Nationalist Turn (2021)

Russian History

• Translation: The Case of the “Stalinist” Textbook (2009)
• Hollywood, WW2, and the Red Army (2015)
• The Real Lenin: Traitor, Parasite, Failure (2017)
• Centenary of the Bolshevik Usurpation (2018)
• The Yaroslavl Rebellion: 16 Days of Freedom (2018)

На русском

• Вверх-вниз по рейтингу свободы [полная версия] (2013)
• Русская Ноосфера: масштабный обзор уровня IQ по регионам России (2018/20)
• Синореализм 101 (2018)