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Major Misconceptions About The Dima Yakovlev Law
1. For Russian orphans life is much more dangerous in Russia than in America. Let’s agree to disregard the hidden subtext which implies that any country ought to give over its orphans to foreign...
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Vote On The Name For The “English Inosmi”
As long-term readers will be aware, I am working on two big projects: A book on myths about Russia, and a website specializing in translating articles from the Russian press into English. (The idea...
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FINAL POLL: Russia Voices Or RossPress?
For background see here, here. Russia Voices is good because it powerfully hints at what the project is all about: Giving the Anglo-sphere some sense of what Russians from all sides of the political...
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Georgians Are The Biggest Stalinists
It’s no real secret that many Russians have a positive impression of Stalin; it was 49% in February 2013, insignificantly down from 53% in 2003. (This is not a view that I share). There are probably a...
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Why De-Russification Isn’t On The Cards
My post last week on the increasing visibility of the Russian language on the Internet provoked a heated counter-attack from commentator Ildar Adi, who asserted (without much in the way of proof) that...
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The English Inosmi: The Russophere vs. The Russian Spectrum
Another day, another Internet project. Or more specifically, reviving an old project – the “English Inosmi” concept of translating articles and blog posts from the Russian media for a Western audience....
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Eurasian Integration Is A Liberal Project Opposed By Neocon Bolsheviks
My latest for VoR/US-Russia Experts panel. Hope you like the title. The political fragmentation of the Soviet Union was one of the major contributing factors to the “hyper-depression” that afflicted...
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OPEN DISCUSSION: The Moscow Elections, 2013
A couple of polls to provide the fodder for the subsequent discussions. Feel free to provide an exact figure (to one decimal place) for Navalny’s percentage share in the comments and we can have a...
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Were the 2013 Moscow Elections falsified?
1. The CEC results Here they are. The turnout was 32%. Sergey Sobyanin – 51.37% Alexei Navalny – 27.24% Ivan Melnikov – 10.69% Sergey Mitrokhin – 3.51% Mikhail Degtyaryov – 2.86% Nikolai Levichev –...
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Serdyukov is Charged
Here is the discussion at this on The Russia Debate. My friend and DR commentator Alexander Mercouris correctly predicted this outcome – that Serdyukov would be charged, but that it is a complex case...
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No Rainbow in Russia – Opinion Polls on Homosexuality
More than 20 years after the fall of the USSR, Russia – and the other republics, too – remain deeply averse to the public expression of homosexuality. The Russian Spectrum makes available the results...
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Russia is Now an Internet Society
The Russian Spectrum presents the results of Levada, FOM, and VCIOM polls over the past dozen years showing the rapid digitization of Russian society. The Internet in Russia The three questions used...
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Russia’s Best Leader was… Brezhnev!
In a recent poll conducted by the Levada Center, Leonid Brezhnev was revealed to be Russians’ favorite ruler of the 20th century. Do you see his era as a Golden Age, or as a zastoi? Russian Attitudes...
View ArticleTranslation: Muscovites Aren’t Hot for Navalny
Moskovsky Komsomolets’ Dmitry Katorzhnov takes a walk around Moscow to ask people what they feel about Navalny. The impressions he gets don’t promise anything good for his campaign. MK’s Poll: Most...
View ArticleSobyanin Beating Navalny in Moscow
With the registration period over, there are now six candidates left to compete for the position of Mayor of Moscow in the coming city elections. Who will Muscovites vote for? Moscow on the Eve of the...
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