Oct

27

Recommended Reading: Matt Taibbi on "The Worst Congress Ever"

October 27, 2006 | 15 Comments

Matt Taibbi’s new article in Rolling Stone, “The Worst Congress Ever,” is only tangentially connected to Russia. Many of you will remember as the co-founder of the Moscow expat weekly, the Exile. I always felt that Taibbi was too smart for its sophomoric antics. But I think cutting his journalistic teeth on [...]

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Oct

27

The Kremlin’s Youthful Folly

October 27, 2006 | 8 Comments

Aleksandr Potkin, 30, changed his name a few years ago. The name change had a double effect. It was at once an gesture to distance himself from his past and an act of rebirth for the future. You see, until 2002, Potkin was a member of a little known nationalist group in [...]

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