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THE BIRTH PANGS OF RUSSIAN CONSERVATISM
by Mikhail Kochkin Political life in Russia boasts many phenomena which are hard for the outsider to understand. One of these is the party system, which currently comprises three main
RUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES POST SEPTEMBER 11: WHAT DO THE RUSSIANS THINK?
By Mikhail Kochkin The radical changes in Russia's foreign policy that followed the events of September 11 last year are often interpreted as the personal achievement of Vladimir Putin, who
A RUSSIAN WHODUNIT
By Mikhail Kochkin On September 12 something quite extraordinary happened in the world of Russian big business: Sergei Kukura, vice president and chief financial officer of the giant oil company
THE LUBYANKA STRIKES BACK: APOSTLES OF CONTROLLED DEMOCRACY
By Mikhail Kochkin With Vladimir Putin's assumption of power, cadres of former and current Chekists [St. Petersburg intelligence service veterans] have been in great demand in state bodies at all
WHO IS MR. SKINHEAD?
By Mikhail Kochkin Of all the phenomena that have shocked and scandalized Russian society over the last six months, first place surely goes to the skinhead movement. Fascist hooligans, almost
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF THE REGIONAL PRESS
By Mikhail Kochkin The scandals of the past year surrounding the nationalization or closure of national privately owned media outlets (NTV, TV-6) have lent the phrase "freedom of speech" a
DOES RUSSIA REALLY WANT MORE WAR IN CHECHNYA?
By Mikhail Kochkin In the Soviet era many of Russia's regions were bound to Chechnya by close economic, cultural and academic ties--thousands of people studied and worked in Djohar/Grozny, which