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Nina L Khrushcheva


Nina L Khrushcheva is professor of international affairs at the New School in New York and co-author of In Putin’s Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia’s Eleven Time Zones (St Martin’s Press).

Nina L Khrushcheva

Trump’s Oval Office Spectacle: When Power Becomes a Stage for Humiliation

Nina L Khrushcheva 26th March 2025

Trump’s Oval Office Spectacle: When Power Becomes a Stage for Humiliation.

How Trump Won

Nina L Khrushcheva 7th November 2024

Trump’s return to power reveals a fractured America, where defiance of democratic norms and ruthless ambition signal a troubling shift in the nation’s political future.

Putin’s dangerous power play: How a century-old Russian strategy threatens the west

Nina L Khrushcheva 7th October 2024

How Putin’s Quest for Power Revives Russia’s Century-Old Threat to the West.

Russia’s battle of the ministries

Nina L Khrushcheva 19th May 2024

Powerful groups seem increasingly willing to break the unspoken rule against public infighting. This does not bode well for Putin’s regime.

Preparing Russia for permanent war

Nina L Khrushcheva 26th January 2024

Behind the Kremlin façade of a grateful people devoted to their leader lie despair, paranoia, intolerance, rage and violence.

The west must face reality in Ukraine

Nina L Khrushcheva 9th January 2024

Whereas the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, is willing to throw everything at this war, Ukraine’s backers are losing their resolve.

Vladimir Putin’s killer patriotism

Nina L Khrushcheva 28th November 2023

Last year’s ‘partial mobilisation’ triggered a backlash against the Kremlin and Putin is fearful of a repeat.

How Russians fight

Nina L Khrushcheva 28th April 2023

Ordinary Russians are unable to protest against the Ukraine war. But evidence of covert resistance is everywhere.

The Kremlin’s suicidal imperialism

Nina L Khrushcheva 14th October 2022

The more apparent it is that Russia is losing, the more forcefully Vladimir Putin declares that it is not.

The greatest democrat Russia ever had

Nina L Khrushcheva 2nd September 2022

Mikhail Gorbachev was Russia’s last liberal leader. His spirit lives on for the next.

Don’t cancel Russian culture

Nina L Khrushcheva 1st July 2022

Refusing to engage with Russian culture will not change Putin’s calculations, let alone impel him to withdraw from Ukraine.

Unhappy birthday, Andrei Sakharov

Nina L Khrushcheva 28th May 2022

The Kremlin’s negation of the Nobel laureate’s legacy represents another step backwards which could lead to nuclear war.

The origins of Putin’s totalitarianism

Nina L Khrushcheva 29th April 2022

The siloviki who gained power during Putin’s early years have been replaced by faceless security technocrats—real heirs to the KGB.

Putin’s war will destroy Russia

Nina L Khrushcheva 2nd April 2022

By attacking another European country, Putin crossed a line drawn after World War II. But he also changed Russia.

Can Navalny take down Putin?

Nina L Khrushcheva 17th February 2021

Today’s protest movement has a charismatic and sympathetic leader but Putin has spent the last decade consolidating a police state.

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