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Quadruple Whammy
•�April 27, 2019
•�100 Words •�13 Comments
The judge in question was an Obama-era minority appointee. This may have played a role in her imposing the maximum sentence of 18 months requested by the prosecution, despite the ridiculousness of the case. reiner Tor comments:
Butina's Show Trial Ends in 18 Month Sentence
•�April 26, 2019
•�700 Words •�71 Comments
This translates to nine months plus the nine months already served, which is the full length of time that the prosecution asked for (probation office asked for 12 months). Here is how this stacks up against old FARA prosecutions: 18 months is very fair and proportionate. /s As I noted at that time: "Consequently, if... Read More
Butina: Not A Spy, Not Even An Agent. As I Said Hours After Her Arrest.
•�February 13, 2019
•�4,400 Words •�85 Comments
Fake Russian gun rights organization that doesn't exist because Russians are too oppressed by Putler to have any independent opinions of their own. A couple of days ago, The New Republic published an astoundingly well-researched longread by James Bamford about the Butina saga. An anonymous commenter has summarized its key points: -Mueller wasn’t interested in... Read More
Case Against Maria Butina Continues Falling Apart
•�September 9, 2018
•�1,000 Words •�17 Comments
Government erred in claiming accused Russian spy Maria Butina offered to trade sex for political access The entire case is one big error, as I pointed out mere hours after Butina's arrest. Ironically, the Americans are prosecuting a Russian citizen who has helped spread American values in - or in the current rhetoric, exerted "foreign... Read More
PETITION: Don’t Let Maria Butina Go to Prison for Supporting American 2nd Amendment Values!
•�August 1, 2018
•�500 Words •�130 Comments
Sign the petition here: Drop or dismiss all charges against Russian human rights activist Maria Butina. Don’t Let Maria Butina Go To Prison For Supporting American 2nd Amendment Values! Right to Bear Arms, Russia’s premier gun rights organization, wishes to express its grave concern at what we see as the politically-motivated prosecution of our founder,... Read More
Butina Trutherism
•�July 23, 2018
•�200 Words •�75 Comments
One persistent thing I have noticed in this recent saga is the refusal to believe that there is any civil society in Russia that is even marginally independent of Putler and ROG. Clarification: While there are genuine pro-"democracy" (pro-LGBT, pro-Ukrainian, etc.) organizations in Russia, which are of course viciously repressed, there are certainly no such... Read More
Russian MFA Declares War on Guardian Hack Carole Cadwalladr
•�July 19, 2018
•�300 Words •�62 Comments
The Tweet in question. Incidentally, kudos to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for this unexpectedly strong show of support. #FreeMariaButina As I have pointed out, Maria Butina is neither a spy, nor even a Russian agent: US Arrests Russia's Foremost 2nd Amendment Activist. Unless this is rapidly resolved, hopefully Russia will escalate with symmetrical... Read More
World Russia Forum 2018
•�July 18, 2018
•�1,100 Words •�107 Comments
So I was at World Russia Forum 2018 today: I was a panelist at WRF 2012 and WRF 2013 in Washington D.C. It is a semi-annual event, alternately hosted in Washington D.C. and Moscow, meant to bring together Russian and American experts, academics, journalists, and policy-makers in an effort to improve relations between these two... Read More
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US Arrests Russia's Foremost 2nd Amendment Activist
•�July 16, 2018
•�2,700 Words •�237 Comments
As I suspected, Trump's meeting with Putin did indeed turn out to be a damp squib, at least relative to the unrealistic expectations that all sorts of strongly ideological camps had built up around it. Putin repeated his insistence that Russia did not meddle in the US elections, congratulated Trump on North Korea, acknowledged that... 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.