“Who has the youth has the future!” Martin Luther declared. As object-subjects of modern states, youth serve as the key to reproducing of the means of reproduction. They perpetuate the nation and its institutions. Adults, therefore, seek, to play on Marx, to create youth after their own image. Yet, Russian youth defy capture.The post Putin’s Unmoored Youth a […]

The Ryan Fogle spy scandal is unfolding. Who knows what will come of it over the next hours, days, and weeks. At the moment it all seems very weird. But as someone on Twitter reminded me, the British spy rock looked crazy at the time and it turned out to be real. What is really [...]The post US Spy or Nigerian Scam Artist? appeared first on Sean's Russi […]

In a recent column, “Incarceration Nation, Fareed Zakaria claimed that number of people in the United States under “correctional supervision” exceeded that of Stalinist Russia. The assertion comes via Adam Gopnik, who wrote an extensive article on the US prison system in January. “Over all, there are now more people under ‘correctional supervision’ in Americ […]

Russian cell phone retailer Svyaznoi plans to attract $200 million in a private placement organized by Sberbank CIB with businessman Leonard Blavatnik believed to be interested, a news report said Monday. […]

The completion date for Zenit St. Petersburg's $1.1 billion stadium has been put back again, and it may not open until 2017, a decade after construction work began, the head of the government agency auditing the project said Monday. […]

Russia is facing a renewed barrage of international criticism, led by the European Union, over its human rights record in connection with an ongoing clampdown on non-governmental organizations and a State Duma proposal to ban so-called "homosexual propaganda." […]