Tag Peter Pomerantsev

Minsk architecture

Peter Pomerantsev, writing about the Belarus Free Theater on the LRB blog: The journey took me out of the unspoilt Stalinist centre of the city. (The architecture is known as ampir in Russian, which sounds like, though doesn’t mean, ‘empire’, and…

Security television, reality apparatus

At the last candidates’ debate before the South Carolina Republican primary, Jeb Bush made this remarkable comment: While Donald Trump was building a reality TV show, my brother [George W. Bush] was building a security apparatus to keep us safe.…

Russia as Hunger Games territory

From Stratfor’s latest 10-year forecast: …we do not think the Russian Federation can exist in its current form for the entire decade. Its overwhelming dependence on energy exports and the unreliability of expectations on pricing make it impossible for Moscow…