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PDS Turns Libs Anti-Vaxxer
•�August 11, 2020
•�400 Words •�150 Comments
It's become glaringly evident that Western societies (unfortunately, Russia "qualifies") do not have the state capacity or social discipline to contain Corona. Not high IQ enough to solve it through technological silver bullets like ubiquitous testing. Not imaginative enough to do large-scale variolation, as Robin Hanson proposed. Nor do they have the fortitude to "power... Read More
Russiagate Grift Machine Up and Running
•�May 31, 2020
•�100 Words •�127 Comments
Took a few days. It was revving up yesterday. Now it's in full gear and will now soon be making its way into mainstream discourse. As I keep saying, Russiagaters are perhaps the most hardcore Americanophobes on this planet. They believe that a few Russian shitpoasters on Twitter intimately control the political behavior of 330... Read More
When Life Comes at You Fast: Russia Was Right on BoJo's Health
•�April 6, 2020
•�300 Words •�108 Comments
Yesterday, Western journalists were like: This referred to the original state news agency RIA article, which stated that Boris Johnson was hospitalized and would be put under a ventilator. And earlier today, the British government were like: Business Insider: Boris Johnson's spokesman accuses Russia of spreading 'disinformation' after Russian state media claims the prime minister... Read More
Meet the New Russiagate, Same as the Old Russiagate
•�March 19, 2020
•�600 Words •�31 Comments
Though there have been some other, decidedly minor, world events that have pushed these developments off the front pages, we may confidently label March, 2020 as the final death of Russiagate v1.0 - the blockbuster hit that has spawned two official sequels to date, as well as an untold number of fan-made derivative works. First,... Read More
Ukrainian MP Dmitry Tymchuk Realizes His Dreams of Shooting Putler
•�June 19, 2019
•�300 Words •�18 Comments
Albeit with a minor adjustment for reality that was not to the advantage of our unfortunate patient. Dmitry Tymchuk was a svidomy activist and "information warrior" whose Facebook postings were followed by 270,000 people. He was also a friend of the obese toad Anton Gerashchenko, who set up a website hosting a hit list that... Read More
Anti-Semites Are Who Julia Ioffe Doesn't Like
•�March 11, 2018
•�100 Words •�59 Comments
Putin: Western MSM: Of course, Julia Ioffe is a Jewish ultranationalist who believes that simply talking about Russians' contributions to victory in WW2 is anti-Semitic: But pointing out context like this is why I, too, am an anti-Semite.
Open Thread 32: All URL Base Are Belong to Us
•�November 17, 2017
•�1,500 Words •�89 Comments
I am pretty bad with these puns. But this one might just be SSC-worthy. One of my goals for the rest of Anti-Bolshevik Month is to write a comprehensive alternate history in which the Russian Republic survives WW1. Randall Parker's question on Twitter: "Imagine a time traveler goes back to 1913 and kill Hitler, Stalin,... Read More
Open Thread 30: Linke Park
•�November 5, 2017
•�1,400 Words •�85 Comments
It will be the centenary of the October Revolution in a couple of days - the original color revolution that finished off a great and rapidly modernizing empire and handed power to a gang of Russia-hating criminals. To mark the occasion, the next two weeks I will be documenting the dismal failure of sovok across... Read More
Matt Taibbi Writes About Putin Derangement Syndrome
•�April 7, 2017
•�1,100 Words •�3 Comments
I didn't really invent this meme, as Patrick Armstrong once credited me; there were a few disjointed mentions of it there and there from before 2011. That said, I do think I did more than than anyone else to popularize it. Anyhow, the term Putin Derangement Syndrome has finally gone mainstream, with Rolling Stone's Matt... Read More
Russia Is Weaponizing... Comedy
•�March 17, 2017
•�500 Words •�6 Comments
I was under the impression this particular meme was played out, and replaced by the "Russian Hackers" one, but it appears not. By request of the Latvian Ministry of Defense, courtesy of NATO's Strategic Communications Centre for Excellence, and in all likelihood paid for by your tax dollars, we have the following report: Stratcom Laughs:... Read More
Yudkowsky: It's Child Porn or the Putlerreich
•�December 12, 2016
•�400 Words •�33 Comments
It's just a bit ironic that the figurehead of a movement (best known to the general public as the author of the world's most popular Harry Potter fanfic) that emphasizes "politics is the mindkiller" has lapsed into all-out Putin-Trump Derangement Syndrome and fake news generation. Not entirely unexpected, though - Arthur Chu, an SJW activist... Read More
Putin: the Whipping Boy of Panama
•�April 5, 2016
•�1,300 Words •�14 Comments
The front page of The Guardian on the first day of Panama Leaks: $2 billion!? Very impressive. Though admittedly, a rather disappointing find after more than a decade's worth of searching for Putin's $200 billion stash. But still, a curious choice of whom to focus on, considering the minor detail that Putin's name doesn't appear... Read More
Navalny's Promises to Put Putin In Jail
•�April 10, 2013
•�700 Words •�16 Comments
In a recent interview with the opposition Dozhd TV channel - which is, incidentally, available for public viewing in Russia as part of the NTV Plus satellite TV package - for the first time openly declared he wants to be President. He also speculated about the motivations behind the Kirovles fraud case being brought against... Read More
And They Say Mark Adomanis Is A Putin Stooge
•�April 5, 2013
•�800 Words •�9 Comments
Anti-corruption efforts have been significantly stepped up in recent months, both in terms of headline making events (e.g. the dismissal of Serdyukov) and the less heralded progress in the introduction of new laws to combat the source. One of these is a ban on Russian bureaucrats holding foreign bank accounts (this represents a watering down... Read More
Andrew Ryvkin's Strange Ideas About the Russian Economy
•�January 21, 2013
•�900 Words •�6 Comments
By the usual standards of Guardian reporting on Russia, this one by GQ Russia editor Andrew Ryvkin is... well, about par for the course. Citing a recent PwC report that Russia will overtake Germany to become Europe's biggest economy in 2030, he asks, "Should we believe them?" Well, the PwC is just repeating predictions made... Read More
So Who's the New Clown At the Economist's Russia Desk?
•�January 4, 2013
•�700 Words •�25 Comments
I really did think it was getting better there under Joshu Yaffa, certainly it's not typical of him to write such vitriolic but more importantly factually inaccurate articles. Let's hope the world's sleaziest magazine was getting one of their old-timers to file for him that day, instead of representing the start of a new descent... Read More
Major Misconceptions About the Dima Yakovlev Law
•�December 30, 2012
•�2,700 Words •�23 Comments
1. For Russian orphans life is much more dangerous in Russia than in America. Let's agree to disregard the hidden subtext which implies that any country ought to give over its orphans to foreign nationals should it be ranked safer for children. Let's first examine if the claim that Russia is 39 times more dangerous... Read More
Putin's Birthday, Birth of A Legacy
•�October 15, 2012
•�900 Words •�15 Comments
The latest US-Russia.org Expert Discussion Panel focused on an assessment of Putin's historical legacy, on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Here I try to answer whether history will see Putin as the "founder of a modern and successful Russia", or as a tragic figure who threw away his chance of greatness to the "delusion... Read More
FINAL: Vote for Best Title
•�September 11, 2012
•�100 Words •�9 Comments
And the final results are: Putin Derangement Syndrome 14 Dark Lord of the Kremlin 27 No preference / can't decide which I hate more 13 Surprised to see such a clear lead for DLK... thought it'd be closer to a tie. But it's my favorite too, so Dark Lord of the Kremlin it will be.... Read More
Vote On the Title!
•�September 9, 2012
•�100 Words •�18 Comments
Feel free to suggest the appropriate title/subtitle combination for the book, or to propose new ones. EDIT 9/11: And the final results are: Putinophobia 3 Putin Derangement Syndrome 10 Through Western Eyes 7 When the Truth Doesn't Matter 7 Kremlin Maligned 0 False Truths 1 Potemkin Russia 2 Manufactured Russophobia 4 If It’s About Russia,... Read More
Books I Will be (Re-)Reading While Writing My Own
•�September 8, 2012
•�200 Words •�11 Comments
It's already a pretty big list, so I won't be taking nominations for more. I hope to write reviews of all of them as they're (re)read. The Return (Daniel Treisman) - the best Russian politics books out there. 5/5 Armageddon Averted (Stephen Kotkin) - TBR (to be read) Putin (Chris Hutchins, Alexander Korobko) - TBR,... Read More
Strategic Direction of da Russophile
•�September 8, 2012
•�800 Words •�38 Comments
I feel that my blogging in terms of influencing the discourse on Russia has leveled off into something resembling a plateau. I now write the occasional op-ed; appear every so often in magazines, research articles, and even books; and the blog itself attracts about 500 daily visitors. But truth is I am barely making a... Read More
Kremlin Oligarch Brutally Censors Long-Suffering Russian Media (From Printing Gratuitous Profanities)
•�December 15, 2011
•�1,200 Words •�35 Comments
Imagine a respected American financial newspaper such as the WSJ writes an article investigating elections fraud in favor of the Democrats. To illustrate the rightness of their point, they include a photo of a ballot for the Republicans that - they allege - wasn't tallied by the dodgy Solyndra machines rolled out for use in... Read More
A Quick Note On Russia's Duma Elections 2011
•�December 3, 2011
•�800 Words •�185 Comments
On reading Western commentary on the upcoming Russian Duma elections, I realized that they can't decide between two narratives: either the popularity of United Russia is sinking faster than Herman Cain's following his sex abuse scandals, thus meaning that it will manipulate the votes to get its desired majority; or Russian elections are complete shams... Read More
Time to Shove Off! and What Then?...
•�October 2, 2011
•�2,200 Words •�21 Comments
If I had a cent for every Russia story from the past week that featured the (conclusively debunked) "sixth wave of emigration" meme... And if wishes were fishes. Still, the coverage of Russian reactions to Putin's return does demonstrate the venality and general fecklessness of the Western MSM. As Adomanis correctly noted, it is "negative... Read More
On the Necessity of Subjecting Kremlinologists (And Social Scientists) to Market Discipline
•�June 11, 2011
•�900 Words •�13 Comments
I have gone on record with the following odds on Russia's next President: Medvedev – 70%, Putin – 25%, Other – 5%. The first betting site to offer odds on the Russian Presidential election has other ideas. As of June 2011, the British online gambling site Stan James is offering the following odds: Putin 4/7,... Read More
In Which la Russophobe Interviews the Russophile Sociopath Blogging At Sublime Oblivion
•�May 27, 2011
•�12,600 Words •�23 Comments
Two weeks ago, I received a Facebook message from Kim Zigfeld, she of the infamous La Russophobe, asking me if I was interested in an interview with her. It didn't take long for me to come to the wrong decision! And so commenced our interview. It was a long grind. After ceaseless goings back and... Read More
The Kremlinologist Catechism
•�August 27, 2010
•�700 Words •�9 Comments
This is a reprint of my article for the Sep/Oct 2010 issue of Russian Life magazine. It is a condensed version of Rosstat and Levada are Russophobia’s Bane. Enjoy! There is a Catechism that dominates American discourse on Russia today. Just flip through The Washington Post’s editorials, peruse American political science journals or listen (cringe)... Read More
Russophobe Hack Exposed, or: the Misadventures of Dorothée Olliéric of France-2
•�August 26, 2010
•�700 Words •�9 Comments
So you know how the Western commentariat carries on about how Russia Today fawns over the Kremlin and propagates anti-Western propaganda, while shamelessly peddling itself as a paragon of universal truth and uncompromising objectivity? Welcome to the next installment in the never-ending annals of Western media hypocrisy, brought to you courtesy of Dorothée Olliéric, hack... Read More
The Boris Bombshell. Two Years Later. Still a Dud.
•�June 18, 2010
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During the past two years, Russian "dissident" liberals Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov have produced a frankly maniacal quantity of so-called "Independent Expert Reports" (there are now seven of them) that purport to debunk the "persistent myths imposed by official [Kremlin] propaganda". The authors say that their latest exegesis, melodramatically entitled "Putin. The Results. 10... Read More
Top 50 Russophobe Myths
•�July 4, 2009
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This is a list of common Russophobe myths about Russia and its people, and the successor to a March 2008 post on a similar theme. Please be sure to check the supporting notes at the bottom before dismissing this as neo-Soviet propaganda. Also partially available en français & на русском thanks to Alexandre Latsa's translation.... Read More
Responses to Common Russophobe “Arguments”
•�June 28, 2009
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At certain venues, “Russophiles” take a lot of flak for holding the beliefs and worldviews that they do. Many of their “arguments” can be predicted in advance based on prior experience. I’ve compiled a list of quick rebuttals to some common Russophobe accusations and insinuations so that we don’t have to waste our time formulating... Read More
Farewell, Readers!
•�April 1, 2009
•�700 Words •�14 Comments
After a months-long crisis of conviction, I unequivocally reject my support, rationalization and in a sense enablement of the reptilian thugs, fascists and kleptocrats who stalk the parapets of the Kremlin. I sincerely apologize to my loyal readers for so cynically misleading them for more than a year and polluting cyberspace with my lies, disinformation... Read More
Translation: Tatyana Korchevnaya - On Liberal Web Brigades
•�March 9, 2009
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It is a pity that foreigners are not privy to the wild and wacky world of LiveJournal, Russia's premier blogging site - many prominent people have accounts there and traditions of opposition and kompromat makes for a lively stream of scandal. One recent case involved Tatyana Korchevnaya, who used to be a prominent member of... Read More
Comrade Kasparov - Charlatan or Bolshevik?
•�March 5, 2009
•�2,800 Words •�18 Comments
Debunking Russophobic drivel is somewhat akin to grenade fishing - so damn easy that you almost feel a bit guilty for stooping to such a level and wasting your time. But that's what makes it really fun. So although Fedia Kriukov, Eugene Ivanov, Eric Kraus and the folks over at Russia: Other Points of View... Read More
A Gem (Or Rather, a Ring) from Lucas
•�November 17, 2008
•�700 Words •�14 Comments
The demented Russophobe Edward Lucas has surpassed even his own stellar record of profound insights about the evil empire, this time explicitly comparing Russia to Mordor (the land of shadow in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings) from his Yahoo! list. Quoted below in its entirety for laughs. The British author JRR Tolkien always hated... Read More
The Unfathomable Depths of Western Hypocrisy
•�September 15, 2008
•�5,400 Words
Putin gave an interview to CNN, logically and comprehensively explaining the Russian view on the South Ossetian War. What did CNN do? They censored most of the interview (in stark contrast, Saakashvili's frequent deranged rantings bouts got prime attention during the conflict), leaving only the stuff that makes Putin look like a loon to the... 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.