From the first Tsars of the sixteenth century to the notoriously repressive Soviet regime to the contemporary mafia state of Vladimir Putin,…
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Ever since the escalation of the Ukraine crisis in 2014, I have been repeatedly asked at Swarthmore what, as a Russian-American, I…
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Let’s face it: the Sochi Olympics were never going to be anything but amazing. That isn’t because of the level of competition.…