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Michael Idov is a contributing editor at New York Magazine and has covered Russia for The New Republic. His debut novel, Ground Up, has just been released.

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Your Move Mr Putin

Your Move, Mr. Putin

Obama's decision to drop the planned missile shield in Eastern Europe is hardly a bow to the Kremlin-the program wil...

Posted 8:40 PM | Sep 18, 2009
Obamas Russia Problem

Obama's Russia Problem

As Obama meets with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow for a nuclear arms deal, he faces the challenge of wi...

Posted 12:04 AM | Jul 6, 2009
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BB - Reset

As we're treated to yet another batch of recession-lifestyle pieces in the press, and trying to reconcile Kurt Andersen's supposed "Reset” of the American psyche with the ...

11:14 pm, Oct 14, 2009

With a school of Russian subs cavorting off the Atlantic coast, we’re once again reduced to puzzling over exactly what is Moscow up to. The best—and half-accidental&...

10:41 pm, Aug 5, 2009