In Komsomolskaya Pravda, Andrei Ryabtsev notes a close correlation between average housing prices and Navalny’s vote share in Moscow’s districts – and tries to find out why that might be the case. Why did they vote for Navalny in the centre, and for Sobyanin in the dormitory suburbs? The election results for Moscow’s mayor have […]
Translation: Hurrah for the Bourgeois Candidate!
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In Which I Become A Liberast: Criticism Of Russia’s Expulsion Of USAID
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was written by Anatoly Karlin for Da Russophile, US-Russia.org Expert Discussion Panel on October 1, 2012 .13 Comments
The latest US-Russia.org Expert Discussion Panel focuses on whether Russia was correct to expel USAID on the grounds that it interfered in domestic Russian politics to an acceptable degree. Here is my contribution: I have no connection to USAID, or indeed to any American NGO operating in Russia or anywhere else. I do not pretend to have […]