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Our Russia in Data
•�January 30, 2020
•�400 Words •�40 Comments
One of the nicest sites on the Internet for data freaks is Max Roser's Our World in Data, which produces lavishly illustrated graphs on a wide variety of political, economics, and society-related topics. The links to the original data sources are also very useful. I found something similar (if much smaller scale) for Russia at... Read More
Rosstat: Politicization or Modernization?
•�March 5, 2019
•�500 Words •�13 Comments
In recent weeks, there has been cynical coverage of the dismissal of Russian state statistics director Alexander Surinov, and his replacement by Pavel Malkov; especially as it was soon followed by an upwards revision of GDP growth since 2016 (including 2.3% growth in 2018 vs. expectations of 1.5%-2.0%). Is the Soviet era of politicized statistics... Read More
Karl Pearson: The Original Alt Left?
•�February 2, 2018
•�400 Words •�20 Comments
Wikipedia: Weismann claimed that acquired characteristics could not be inherited. Therefore, training benefits only the trained generation. Their children will not exhibit the learned improvements and, in turn, will need to be improved. "No degenerate and feeble stock will ever be converted into healthy and sound stock by the accumulated effects of education, good laws,... Read More
TIMSS vs. PISA Performance
•�December 12, 2016
•�400 Words •�7 Comments
The commenter "m" did some calculations to work out the relative performance of different countries in PISA vs. TIMSS, and in Math vs. Science. m writes: Overperformance in TIMSS relative to PISA can arguably be used as a proxy for schooling quality, since it's more dependent on academic/curricular skills than on raw intelligence. I am... Read More
Were the 2013 Moscow Elections Falsified?
•�September 10, 2013
•�800 Words •�7 Comments
1. The CEC results Here they are. The turnout was 32%. Sergey Sobyanin – 51.37% Alexei Navalny – 27.24% Ivan Melnikov – 10.69% Sergey Mitrokhin – 3.51% Mikhail Degtyaryov – 2.86% Nikolai Levichev – 2.79% Invalid ballots – 1.53% 2. Pre-elections opinion polls: Navalny's support - among those who indicated a clear preference for one... Read More
From Russia to Russabia? Not Anytime Soon
•�July 8, 2013
•�600 Words •�8 Comments
Faced with the utter failure of their doom-laden projections for Russia's population future to describe reality - it's population is now not only growing in absolute terms, but even barring migration its number of births now virtually equals the number of deaths - the more guttural elements of the interwebs are now resorting to another... Read More
Russia Moving Into the Fastlane
•�March 29, 2013
•�400 Words •�1 Comment
One of the most reliable indicators of influence is access to cars. They are the standard symbol of affluence and middle-class status the world over. They are also far more understandable at the everyday level than things like the PPP GDP per capita, or the number of burgers your national McWage will buy. Following on... Read More
Russians Produce 7 Cars for Every 10 They Buy
•�March 28, 2013
•�400 Words •�3 Comments
One common trope about the Russian economy is that it has virtually no manufacturing to speak of and lives off "oil rents" that can collapse any day. Whiles there is a small nugget of truth to this assertion, but by and large it is simply false. It is true that a great chunk of Russian... Read More
Russian Is the Internet's Second Most Popular Language
•�March 27, 2013
•�200 Words •�43 Comments
In the wake of Russia's Internet penetration breaking the 50% mark (now - 55%) and overtaking Germany in total number of users last year, we now have news that Russian overtook German as its second most popular language. It is used on 5.9% of all the world's websites. It is projected that Russia will maintain... Read More
Are Caucasians Stealing Russian University Places? the Data Says, "Probably Not."
•�February 20, 2013
•�800 Words •�4 Comments
In one of the recent posts on corruption, commentator AP wrote: Is this true? Seeing as how the Russian state doesn't release Unified State Exam (USE) results by region, probably due to PC considerations, at first this assertion might appear to be unanswerable. However, there is a way to get round the problem. (1) We... Read More
The Rapid and Mostly Unnoticed Decline of Abortion In Russia
•�February 8, 2013
•�500 Words •�34 Comments
One of the keystones of the "Dying Bear" meme is the factoid that abortions outnumber births in Russia. As Mark Steyn put it, "When it comes to the future, most Russian women are voting with their fetus." The only problem is that there is no causal relation between abortions and demographic health whatsoever - and... Read More
Da Russophile Is Now Five Years Old
•�January 25, 2013
•�300 Words •�5 Comments
I have recently been cleaning up my old posts. When I moved from Sublime Oblivion to here, the pictures remained hosted at the old site (there were too many of them to auto-import). So I've been going through ancient posts, manually reattaching pictures (so that they are now hosted at wordpress.com) and making the categories... Read More
Russian Journalists Are Far Safer Than Mexican Journalists, Ordinary Russians, and Their Own Counterparts Under Yeltsin
•�May 23, 2012
•�1,100 Words •�61 Comments
One of the most common tropes against Russia is that critical (independent, democratic, etc) journalists there are dying like flies, presumably because of the "culture of impunity" created by Putin or even on his express orders. It is rarely mentioned that the statistical chances of a Russian journalist dying by homicide is an order of... Read More
Why Golos' Own Figures Support Only 3%-6% Fraud
•�March 6, 2012
•�2,000 Words •�18 Comments
Since yesterday, the following image from an article by liberal journalist Evgenya Albats has been making the rounds on the Internet. It shows that whereas Putin's official tally was 65%, independent observers put it close to or below the 50% marker that would necessitate a second round, such as Golos' 51% and Citizen Observer's 45%.... Read More
Measuring Churov's Beard: The Mathematics of Russian Election Fraud
•�December 26, 2011
•�6,100 Words •�29 Comments
In the aftermath of the 2011 Duma elections, the Russian blogosphere was abuzz with allegations of electoral fraud. Many of these were anecdotal or purely rhetorical in nature; some were more concrete, but variegated or ambiguous. A prime example of these were opinion polls and exit polls, which variably supported and contradicted the Kremlin's claims... Read More
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Anatoly Karlin
About Anatoly Karlin

I am a blogger, thinker, and businessman in the SF Bay Area. I’m originally from Russia, spent many years in Britain, and studied at U.C. Berkeley.

One of my tenets is that ideologies tend to suck. As such, I hesitate about attaching labels to myself. That said, if it’s really necessary, I suppose “liberal-conservative neoreactionary” would be close enough.

Though I consider myself part of the Orthodox Church, my philosophy and spiritual views are more influenced by digital physics, Gnosticism, and Russian cosmism than anything specifically Judeo-Christian.