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.
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Published in: oDRWho will make Russia “great again”?Russia’s legal-rational establishment has yet to emerge. But the rise of Alexei Navalny demonstrates that when it...
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Published in: oDRRussia's politics of paranoiaRussian society tries to keep its nerve. The Kremlin thrives on it, the papers amplify it—but nobody can quite...
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Published in: oDRThe real ‘Leviathan’In the town where the Oscar-nominated Leviathan was shot, locals are ambivalent about the film that purports to...
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Published in: oDRFrom our own correspondent in MoscowThere have been protests in the capital. Could Moscow really go the way of Kyiv – bring down the president and...
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Published in: oDRPutin's new foreign policy rulebookPutin’s speech to the Valdai Club on 24 October shows he no longer believes in the old international rules.
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Published in: oDRWhen peace means warMoscow's peace march was a demonstration against war, and a declaration of a tacit middle-class war with the Kremlin.