Anna Arutunyan

Anna Arutunyan is a Russian-American journalist and the author of The Putin Mystique. A former fellow at the Kennan Institute in Washington, she currently lives and writes in Moscow.

Who will make Russia “great again”?

Russia’s legal-rational establishment has yet to emerge. But the rise of Alexei Navalny demonstrates that when it does, it will inevitably be nationalist.

By Anna Arutunyan

/ 15 Mar 2017

Russia's politics of paranoia

Russian society tries to keep its nerve. The Kremlin thrives on it, the papers amplify it—but nobody can quite control this profound paranoia.

By Anna Arutunyan

/ 22 Dec 2015

The real ‘Leviathan’

In the town where the Oscar-nominated Leviathan was shot, locals are ambivalent about the film that purports to reflect their lives.

By Anna Arutunyan

/ 19 Feb 2015

From our own correspondent in Moscow

There have been protests in the capital. Could Moscow really go the way of Kyiv – bring down the president and install a less authoritarian government?

By Anna Arutunyan

/ 31 Dec 2014

Putin's new foreign policy rulebook

Putin’s speech to the Valdai Club on 24 October shows he no longer believes in the old international rules.

By Anna Arutunyan

/ 3 Nov 2014

When peace means war

Moscow's peace march was a demonstration against war, and a declaration of a tacit middle-class war with the Kremlin.

By Anna Arutunyan

/ 22 Sep 2014

Praying to Putin

A recent lecture in Moscow asked, ‘Will Putin become God through grace?'

By Anna Arutunyan

/ 9 Sep 2014