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Translation: Vladimir Kolokoltsev - "The Death Penalty Is Society's Normal Reaction"
•�February 12, 2013
•�800 Words
In an interview with Dmitry Nadezhdin, Russia's chief police officer says that he, as a citizen - if not as a government Minister - supports the return of the death penalty for the worst crimes. Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov says that it ain't happening. The Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev gave an interview to NTV, in... Read More
Translation: Deputy Minister of Communications Volin Explains Media-Business Relations
•�February 12, 2013
•�400 Words
On 9 February, 2013 the Deputy Minister for Communications schooled Moscow State journalism students in the "propaganda model." They were none too thrilled about the lesson, as Natalia Romashkova writes. The Deputy Minister for Communications and Mass Media Alexey Volin explained the heated reactions to his speech at Moscow State University by the deep chasm... Read More
What Political System Do Russians Prefer?
•�February 9, 2013
•�100 Words
A new Levada poll indicates that after a brief infatuation with markets and "Western-style democracy" in the early 1990s, Russians more or less consistently consider the Soviet system to be the best one out there. Which of these political systems do you think is best: The Soviet system (the one we had until the 1990's),... Read More
Translation: Up and Down the Freedom Rating
•�February 5, 2013
•�500 Words
In a comment for popular Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, Anatoly Karlin compares media freedoms - or the lack thereof - in Russia and the "free" West. There is a longer version of this article at Da Russophile. Recently the French human rights organization Reporters Without Borders unveiled new press freedom ratings, which showed Russia sinking... Read More
Translation: Skolkovo In the Ratings
•�February 5, 2013
•�800 Words
Russia claims one of the top places in a new ratings system of national innovation compiled by Bloomberg. According to the latest studies, the US was recognized as the world's most innovative country in a new rating. This is not surprising for a country that hosts the likes of Apple and Microsoft. But Russia at... Read More
Translation: Sergey Magnitsky: Act Two
•�February 1, 2013
•�1,000 Words
Maxim Kononenko, the gadfly of Runet, on how the hunters may become the hunted in the Magnitsky saga. The representatives of the founder of Hermitage Capital, William Browder, have informed the High Court of London that their client sees no reason to respond to respond to the lawsuit against him by Major Pavel Karpov, the... Read More
Translation: "Either We Convert, or They Kill Us"
•�February 1, 2013
•�1,000 Words
Yuri Matsarsky meets up with Egyptian Christians who fled to Russia from the persecution of Islamist extremists. "Late one evening I was walking home after a meeting with friends, when I stopped to have a cigarette at the Domodedovskaya metro station and saw a crowd of people with small children at the entrance. By their... Read More
Translation: Oligarchs, A Comparative Analysis
•�January 22, 2013
•�600 Words
In her weekly column for Novaya Gazeta, Russian journalist and writer Yulia Latynina compares the civic-mindedness of American and Russian oligarchs - and not to Russia's favor. John Hopkins (1795-1873) - one of the richest men of the 19th century, trader and joint owner of railways - founded John Hopkins University (16th in the university... Read More
Translation: Please Answer, Gérard!... (An Open Letter to Depardieu)
•�January 4, 2013
•�400 Words
In the wake of Gérard Depardieu's scandalous "defection" to Russia to escape high French income taxes, liberal Russian journalist Gleb Razdolnov yearns to know what the hell he was thinking. Dear Gérard! You've taken the decision to abandon your homeland, France. We will not talk of the reasons that prompted you to take this step.... Read More
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.