Imagining Kursk. On Russia’s metaphorical blockade economyI had been meaning to write a ‘roundup’ summer post, but didn’t get around to it. The Ukrainian push into a part of Russia’s Kursk region…Sep 10, 2024Sep 10, 2024
Coverage of the war is changing, but it too often misses the mark in communicating complexityEven as we move well into the third year of war in Ukraine, the media sphere, dependent as it is on the economy of attention seeking, is…Apr 23, 2024Apr 23, 2024
People can tolerate autocracy, but they can’t tolerate the absence of hope in the futureWhy did people vote for Putin last month in the dullest Russian election in history?Apr 12, 2024Apr 12, 2024
Moscow protests, the stifling Sobyanin embrace, and a tale of two societies.I’m still mentally digesting the extreme push-back I’ve encountered in the field this summer against the Moscow protests.Sep 1, 2019Sep 1, 2019