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Opinion and Analysis

Perspectives on Putin 3.0

Gail W. Lapidus From Reset to Relapse?

Jadwiga Rogoża Russia of Stability vs. Russia of Change

Dmitry Babich Russia: Plus ça change

Ivan Preobrazhensky Democratisation: Scene two, take one

An interview with Grigory Yavlinsky Little Ground for Optimism

Susan Corke and David J. Kramer The Faustian Bargain

Cornelius Ochmann The New German Ostpolitik

Sviatoslav Khomenko United or Lost? Opposition in Ukraine

Adam Balcer, Lilia Revak Ukraine: European Australia or Congo?

Thomas Escritt The Danube Waltz

Rashad Shirinov Yes to Euro, No to Vision

Zakhar Prilepin Out of Russia

Local Effects of the Global Crisis

Benu Bidani, Mame Fatou Diagne, Salman Zaidi Effects of the Global Crisis on Households

Linas Jegelevicius Crouching Tigers, Hidden Dragons?

Michał Potocki Two Schools of Crisis Management

Agaton Koziński Bridge Over Troubled Danube

Sara Khojoyan South Caucasus and the Crisis

Alexandr Yakuba In Search of 25 Million Jobs

Interviews

An interview with Colin Thubron A Journey into the Russian Soul

Reports

Katarzyna Kwiatkowska Navalny’s World

Ziemowit Szczerek Islam in Sandzak

History

Alexander Guzhalovsky The Silence of the Radio

People, Ideas, Inspiration

Sławomir Łukasiewicz Jan Nowak-Jeziorański. A Sketch for a Portrait

Books and Reviews

Łukasz Wojtusik In the Darkness of the Holocaust

On the fi lm directed by Agnieszka Holland In Darkness

Agnieszka Sadecka The Quiet Wife Speaks Up

On Danuta Wałęsa’s Marzenia i tajemnice (Dreams and Secrets)

Mayhill Fowler Not Just a Woman

On Robert Massie’s Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

Jana Kobzova A Socratic Dialogue

On Lilia Shevtsova and Andrew Wood’s Change or Decay: Russia’s Dilemma and the West’s Response

Annabelle Chapman Biography of a City

On Charles King’s Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams

Natalka Śniadanko Eternitarians of Time

On Taras Antypovych’s Chronos