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!”
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 State Security, pays a late-night
MOSCOW PLACES ITS BETS ON “STATE TERRORISTS” IN CHECHNYA
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 nominally subordinated to the Russian
PUTIN’S UPBEAT MESSAGE ON CHECHNYA CONTRADICTED BY REALITIES ON THE GROUND
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 of the future prospects for
RUB ‘EM OUT IN THE CRAPPER!
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 village and hamlet in the
WHY CHECHENIZATION WILL LIKELY FAIL
Perhaps the most significant reason why the policy of "Chechenization" - aptly described in the February 23 issue of Chechnya Weekly by Andrei Smirnov as a policy intended "to make
DO ETHNIC RUSSIANS SUPPORT PUTIN’S WAR IN CHECHNYA?
Among Americans who do not follow political developments in Russia closely – that is, among the overwhelming majority of Americans – there exists an impression that ethnic Russians (who comprise
DO ETHNIC RUSSIANS SUPPORT PUTIN’S WAR IN CHECHNYA?
Among Americans who do not follow political developments in Russia closely – that is, among the overwhelming majority of Americans – there exists an impression that ethnic Russians (who comprise
WHY CHECHENIZATION WILL LIKELY FAIL
Perhaps the most significant reason why the policy of "Chechenization" - aptly described in the February 23 issue of Chechnya Weekly by Andrei Smirnov as a policy intended "to make
RUB ‘EM OUT IN THE CRAPPER!
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 village and hamlet in the
PUTIN’S UPBEAT MESSAGE ON CHECHNYA CONTRADICTED BY REALITIES ON THE GROUND
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 of the future prospects for
MOSCOW PLACES ITS BETS ON “STATE TERRORISTS” IN CHECHNYA
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 nominally subordinated to the Russian
“Give Us Back Capital Punishment, Iosif Vissarionovich!”
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 State Security, pays a late-night