The Manchurian Cabinet (Nina L. Khrushcheva, Project-Syndicate)

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-cabinet-pro-russia-by-nina-l--khrushcheva-2016-12

Direct Democracy Strikes Again (Nina L. Khrushcheva, Project-Syndicate)

Once again, a referendum has turned a country upside down. In June, British voters decided to take their country out of the European Union; now, a narrow majority of Colombians have rejected a peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Colombians have taken a leap in the dark – and perhaps a leap back into the violent abyss of never-ending war.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/direct-democracy-fails-colombia-by-nina-l--khrushcheva-2016-10

Trump Through Russian Eyes (Nina L. Khrushcheva, Project-Syndicate)

I am an American, Moscow-born. And because of that, my Americanness, unlike that of Saul Bellow’s Augie March, once triggered something of a national debate back in Russia. In some places, school textbooks asked students whether it was right or wrong for Nina Khrushcheva to become an American citizen. I leave it to you to guess which position most people, especially those of the Soviet generation, supported.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/russian-lessons-for-us-politics-by-nina-l--khrushcheva-2016-09

Does Putin Really Want a Trump Presidency? (Nina L. Khrushcheva, Project-Syndicate)

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/putin-backing-trump-by-nina-l--khrushcheva-2016-08

The Kremlin’s Olympic Acrobatics (Nina L. Khrushcheva, Project-Syndicate)

Next Friday, Russians will be among the athletes gathering behind their national flags at the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro’s Maracanã Stadium. That was almost not the case. In the wake of revelations by the World Anti-Doping Agency about large-scale state-sponsored doping in Russia, the country avoided an outright ban by the skin of its teeth.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/kremlin-reaction-olympic-doping-revelations-by-nina-l--khrushcheva-2016-07

The Strongman’s Power Trap (Nina L. Khrushcheva, Project-Syndicate)

Earlier this year, when Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he was forming a 400,000-man national guard that would report only to him, many Russians wondered why a new military force was needed. After all, Russia’s army was supposedly back: Putin had equipped it with new toys, and even arranged for two small wars – in Georgia in 2008 and in Ukraine, starting in 2014 – to prove it.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/putin-xi-erdogan-power-trap-by-nina-l--khrushcheva-2016-07

Putin’s Illusion of Reform (Nina L. Khrushcheva, Project-Syndicate)

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/putin-illusion-of-reform-by-nina-l--khrushcheva-2016-06

The Improbable Reformers (Nina L. Khrushcheva, Project-Syndicate)

Over the last few years, Pope Francis has reinvigorated the Catholic Church’s core message with passionate criticism of unbridled capitalism and a new, more progressive worldview. In the United States primaries, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign is doing much the same for the Democratic Party – and for US politics more broadly.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/pope-francis-bernie-sanders-progressive-by-nina-l--khrushcheva-2016-04

The Putins of the EU (Nina L. Khrushcheva, Project-Syndicate)

One of the saddest ironies of this year’s commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union is that Hungary and Poland, always the most restless of the Soviet empire’s captured nations, are now led by men mimicking Russian President Vladimir Putin’s governing style. They, too, are hollowing out independent democratic institutions and suppressing citizens’ fundamental freedoms. As the old saying goes, we become what we hate.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/leaders-building-illiberal-regimes-in-hungary-and-poland-by-nina-l--khrushcheva-2016-03

Putin, the Pope, and the Patriarch (Nina L. Khrushcheva, Project-Syndicate)

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s years as a KGB officer taught him how to take advantage of others. In Steven Lee Myers’ excellent new biography, The New Tsar, the former New York Times Moscow bureau chief describes how, when Putin was posted in East Germany in the waning years of communism, he used his opponent’s weaknesses to advance the Soviet cause.

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/pope-francis-patriarch-kirill-cuba-meeting-by-nina-l--khrushcheva-2016-02

The Marketing of the American President (Nina L. Khrushcheva, Project-Syndicate)

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/marketing-the-american-president-by-nina-l--khrushcheva-2016-01

(Istituto fondamentale - Global) Containment Begins at Home (Nina L. Khrushcheva, Project-Syndicate)

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/containment-begins-at-home-chattanooga-george-kennan-by-nina-l--khrushcheva-2015-07

(Istituto fondamentale - Russia) The Goebbels of the Kremlin (Nina L. Khrushcheva, Project-Syndicate)

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/vladislav-surkov-putin-adviser-by-nina-l--khrushcheva-2015-06