John B. Dunlop

John B. Dunlop is a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is an expert on Russia's two wars in Chechnya, nationalism in the former Soviet Union, Russian cultural politics, and the politics of religion in Russia.

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“Give Us Back Capital Punishment, Iosif Vissarionovich!”

03.23.2006 John B. Dunlop

In Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s novel, The First Circle, which depicts events occurring in December 1949, there is a scene in which General Viktor Abakumov, Minister of...

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MOSCOW PLACES ITS BETS ON “STATE TERRORISTS” IN CHECHNYA

07.14.2005 John B. Dunlop

The political fall-out from a political debacle that occurred in early June in the village of Borozdinovskaya in northern Chechnya - pro-Moscow Chechen special forces...

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PUTIN’S UPBEAT MESSAGE ON CHECHNYA CONTRADICTED BY REALITIES ON THE GROUND

06.01.2005 John B. Dunlop

During a visit to Germany in the first week of May, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered an upbeat assessment of the situation in Chechnya and...

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RUB ‘EM OUT IN THE CRAPPER!

04.20.2005 John B. Dunlop

The First Channel (Russian state television) serves de facto as the most influential voice of the Putin regime, reaching as it does into nearly every...

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