Nina Khrushcheva

“What we love will ruin us,” predicted Aldous Huxley in 1932. In Brave New World, he described a human race that, by 2540, has been destroyed by ignorance, a lust for constant entertainment, the dominance of technology, and an overabundance of material goods. With Donald Trump’s...

MOSCOW – Vladimir Putin’s new presidential term is just beginning, but it increasingly looks like the beginning of the end. Whenever Russia’s people pour into the streets en masse, as they currently are doing, from that point on things never work out well for the authorities....

VIENNA — For those who still wondered who Vladimir Putin is, the mystery is over. His actions this week show that he is Russia’s new autocrat. He is a Czar pure and simple. The seven years since Putin assumed power in the Kremlin have been a time of conflicting signals. On one hand, he appears to...

Two practical questions can be asked of any political system: First, what distinguishes the political parties? Second, who is in charge? For a while in postcommunist Russia, the answers were blindingly clear: parties were divided between those nostalgic for Soviet times and those who wanted...

There is no single answer to the question of where Russia is going, especially after Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to play the same old song and approved a national anthem to the tune of the Soviet one with changed words. The intractability of the new Russian leadership in foreign...