Andrei Piontkovsky
Andrei Piontkovsky is a Russian scientist, political writer and analyst. He is a member of PEN International and a regular political commentator for the BBC World Service and Radio Liberty, on which has been an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. Dr. Piontkovsky is also the author of several books on the Putin presidency, including Another Look Into Putin’s Soul and Russian Identity. He holds a doctorate in mathematics from Moscow State University and is a member of the American Mathematical Society.
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Life After Decline
On August 1, 1991, following a cordial meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow, US President George H. W. Bush arrived in Kyiv to deliver what later became known as the
THE QUESTION NO ONE ASKED AT BESLAN
There are some questions that some nations avoid asking themselves just because they subconsciously know the answers. For a clearly articulated answer could become destructive for the state and therefore
KONTROLNYI VYSTREL – COUP DE GRACE!*
The assassination of Aslan Maskhadov was received in Moscow with an outburst of triumph and relief: "Well, now no one in Russia or the West will pester us with pleas
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Commentary: Checkpoint At The End Of The Tunnel
"All happy families are alike. Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way," wrote Leo Tolstoy at the beginning of Anna Karenina. The same holds true for multinational states,
Commentary: A Possible Link Between The Klebnikov And Shchekochikin Murders?
On July 10 Paul Klebnikov, the chief editor of the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, was shot at point-blank range by a hired killer in Moscow. Almost one year earlier,
Editorial: The Liberal Revolution That Produced Slaves
In Russia, a wrathful prosecutor declared his inability to sentence Russian oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky to more than 10 years in prison, adding that miscreants still at large should bear
Editorial: Why Russia Will Not Dominate The Post-soviet Space
If there is any idea today that is uniting all of the different people fond of calling themselves the Russian political "elite," it is the idea of "dominating in the
Chechnya And “metaphysical Terrorism”
After the latest terrorist attack in Moscow, we again are hearing proposals to bring back the death penalty, calls to "torch them with a red hot iron" and to "go
RUSSIA HAS LOST THE WAR IN CHECHNYA
By Andrei Piontkovsky Russia has yet again lost a war in Chechnya--just as it did in the nineteenth century, and in 1944 and 1996. If this really is a war
WHAT WAS WRONG: ASIAN FLU OR RUSSIAN PNEUMONIA?
By Andrei Piontkovsky [This paper was presented at a conference--"Russia: What Went Wrong? Which Way Now?"--held by the Jamestown Foundation on June 9-10 in Washington, DC. More information about the
THE BALKAN SHADOW OVER RUSSIA
By Andrei Piontkovsky Let us start with a short test for advanced readers. To which politician can the following text be ascribed? "If any nation is held by force within
THE RUSSIAN IDEA OF RUSSIA’S “ELITE”
By Andrei Piontkovsky It looks as though Russia's political class has finally found that eternally elusive unifying Russian idea: anti-Americanism. The United States has halted grant payments to three Russian
WHO LOST BELARUS?
By Andrei Piontkovsky In recent years every political spring in Russia has arrived hand in hand with euphoria over Russian-Belarusan reunification. Politicians of all shades make elegant speeches about brotherhood,
WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY: HOW RUSSIA MIGHT FIT INTO THE INTERNATIONAL SCHEME
By Andrei Piontkovsky More than a year has passed since the "Framework Act on relations between NATO and Russia" was signed in Paris. The path to this agreement was not
THE QUESTION NO ONE ASKED AT BESLAN
There are some questions that some nations avoid asking themselves just because they subconsciously know the answers. For a clearly articulated answer could become destructive for the state and therefore
KONTROLNYI VYSTREL – COUP DE GRACE!*
The assassination of Aslan Maskhadov was received in Moscow with an outburst of triumph and relief: "Well, now no one in Russia or the West will pester us with pleas
RUSSIA HAS LOST THE WAR IN CHECHNYA
By Andrei Piontkovsky Russia has yet again lost a war in Chechnya--just as it did in the nineteenth century, and in 1944 and 1996. If this really is a war
Chechnya And “metaphysical Terrorism”
After the latest terrorist attack in Moscow, we again are hearing proposals to bring back the death penalty, calls to "torch them with a red hot iron" and to "go