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  • Eliot Borenstein, Author at NYU Jordan Center
    http://jordanrussiacenter.org/author/eliot

    Eliot Borenstein is a Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies and Collegiate Professer at New York University. Educated at Oberlin College (B.A., 1988) and the University of Wisconsin, Madison (M.A., 1989, Ph.D., 1993), Mr. Borenstein was an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia (1993-95) before taking an appointment at NYU in 1995.
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    Articles by Eliot Borenstein
    The Americans: “Take Your Daughter to Work” Day
    Previously, on the Walking Dead…
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    The Americans: The Marriage Plot against America
    Even if our heroes survive the season, their future looks bleak.
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    Was Putin targeting Jews?
    Semantics, not anti-Semitism, may be behind Putin’s gaffe.
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    Boys Just Want to Have Fun: Just How Queer are the “Satisfaction” Videos?
    The Satisfaction supporters are definitely fighting for something, but it is not LGBT rights
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    Enabling Russian Paranoia: A Response to Thomas Weber
    We may not be colluding with Russia, but we are handing over propaganda victories free of charge
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    Matt Taibbi’s Not-So-Secret Russian Past
    Like the clueless expats they loathed, the editors treated Moscow and its residents as their playground.
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    Ksenia Sobchak; or, Who Gets to Lose to Putin in 2018?
    Russia could do a lot worse than Ksenia Sobchak. In fact, most countries currently are (not everyone gets to be Canada).
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    Is “fake news” fake news?
    We are in a panic about the very means that are used to spread panic.
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    Blaming Russia
    Blaming Russia lets us off the hook.
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    Change is coming to All The Russias
    I am stepping away from most of my editorial duties for the blog
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    Talking with Geoff Cebula, Author of “Adjunct”
    I knew from the beginning that I didn’t want her to be a Slavist.
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    Cringe-Watching: Oliver Stone’s The Putin Interviews
    Watching Stone question Putin and, worse, try to make small-talk, is simply embarrassing.
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    The Ballad of Sonya and Louie: An Immigrant Story
    I had thought my family was Russian, but then when I went to college, I found out we were just Jews.
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    Hulk Smash Stupid Russia Theories
    Monocausal explanations have the virtue of catchiness and the vice of absurdity.
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    In Defense of Russia’s Holocaust on Ice
    Has “Springtime for Hitler” finally met its match?
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    American Fascism: Lessons from Russia
    Putin is not a fascist, in part because he does not need to be. Trump ran a consistently fascist campaign.
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    Russia vs. PornHub: Lie Back and Think of the Motherland
    Apparently, people would rather do anything else—watch porn, have gay sex—than engage in heterosexual intercourse.
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    PokéMaidan, or, How to Start a Moral Panic in Russia
    Pokémon Go troubles the Russian media imagination because it represents the return of the repressed.
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    Is Donald Trump carrying Putin’s baby?
    The real problem with the constant Trump/Putin comparisons is that they are profoundly unfair… to Putin.
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    No Netflix, No Chill: Russia’s Culture Minister Would Rather Purge than Binge
    In the West, we’ve long been familiar with the clear and present danger of Netflix.

    #Russie #culture #sciences #société

  • Tu te rends compte qu’on lit ça dans le Washington Post, désormais ? Was Putin right about Syria ?
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/08/22/was-putin-right-about-syria

    In November 2011, Putin’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov criticized other foreign powers, including the United States, for not helping pressure opposition forces to come to the table with the Assad regime. “We feel the responsibility to make everything possible to initiate an internal dialogue in Syria,” Lavrov said at a meeting of APEC foreign ministers in Hawaii.

    The Arab Spring was in full bloom and U.S. officials thought regime change in Syria was an “inevitable” fait accompli. That calculus appears to have been woefully wrong. Now, the conflict is too entrenched, too polarized, too steeped in the suffering and trauma of millions of Syrians, for peaceful reconciliation to be an option. Russia could very well have been window-dressing the Assad regime’s crimes by parroting Damascus’s calls for dialogue, which the opposition has long considered insincere. But the chance for that sort of earlier rapprochement, in hindsight, seems a thin ray of light in the darkness that has since engulfed Syria.