Nina L. Khrushcheva, the author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics and The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey into the Gulag of the Russian Mind, is Professor of International Affairs and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at The New School and a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute.
US President-elect Donald Trump seems determined to revive a forgotten Hollywood genre: the paranoid melodrama. Given the fondness that Trump and so many of his appointees seem to have for Russian Pre… read more
With the election of Trump, who has named a white supremacist as his chief adviser, America could become a very ugly country. But even if Trump stops short of neo-fascism, voters, so busy sharing fake… read more
In June, UK voters decided to take their country out of the EU, and now a narrow majority of Colombians have rejected a peace agreement with the FARC guerillas to end a half-century-long war. Why does… read more
When Russia's first post-Soviet president, Boris Yeltsin, stepped down, he left Russia at the mercy of his handpicked successor, Vladimir Putin. In the US, the Republicans, having chosen Donald Trump … read more
Donald Trump has done much to endear himself to Russian President Vladimir Putin, but would Putin really want to help put Trump in the White House? With Hillary Clinton, he would have a predictable ad… read more
Following revelations about state-sponsored doping in Russia, the country barely avoided an outright ban from the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. But an outright ban could have produced even more dan… read more
In Russia and China, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have ignored unwritten rules against harming those they replace or remove from power. Without such rules, a strongman can never relinquish his own po… read more
Russia's president has brought Alexei Kudrin, a former finance minister known for his liberal views, back to the Kremlin to shore up his own pro-reform bona fides. But no one should believe that he is… read more
At a spring garden party on the grounds of Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth II recently criticized the "rude" behavior of Chinese President Xi Jinping's entourage during his 2015 state visit. But, g… read more
