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Got the publication date for my book🐦‍🔥 “How to Survive Authoritiarianism” is coming to Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Waterstone and all others near you this September. It’s a weird time to write about democracy & authoritarianism. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/how-to-sur...

News are out: I am writing a book! “How to Survive Authoritarianism. A Russian’s Phrasebook for Everyday Life in America” is our tourist guide to the new type of tyranny emerged in the 21 century. We want to help ordinary people to recognize their new reality, resist it and ultimately survive it.

So, OpenAI is allowing users to engage in explicit sexual dialogues now. I wrote this spring for @harvard-carr-ryan.bsky.social why this is a bad idea and can provoke a wave of women’s objectification (and gender-based violence in real life): www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...

HER Artificial Voice, His Real Aggression? Can AI Girlfriends Bring a New Wave of Women's Objectification?The views expressed below are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy or Harvard Kennedy School. These perspectives have been presented to e...www.hks.harvard.edu

I think Americans should learn a great Russian phrase “grandpa forgot to take his meds again” that perfectly describes gerontocracy and how stupid a leader’s behavior becomes with time

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This year US & Russia are on the journey of property redistribution. Trump is making deals, nationalizing (partially) US Steel & Intel. Media are looking at this as primarily economic transformation. Reality is more complicated (sorry, Bernie): insideauthoritarianism.substack.com/p/nationaliz...

Nationalization isn't about state-run capitalism. It's an underestimated sign of authoritarianism.I look with fascination how this year both United States & Russia have embarked on the journey of mass property redistribution.insideauthoritarianism.substack.com

There appears to be a duality btw women's rights & men's ability to show masculinity. In times when politicians dehumanize opponents, Swift was humanizing. On her podcast initiation into the manosphere that takes issue with her — and liberated women more broadly: open.substack.com/pub/insideau...

Taylor Swift Understood the Assignment. Democrats Still Don't.When Taylor Swift announced her new album "The Life of a Showgirl" on the "New Heights" podcast, many dismissed it as cheeky and unserious: the world's biggest superstar announcing her 12th album...open.substack.com

Launching my Substack, Insider’s Guide to Authoritarianism. First post is about Taylor Swift’s first podcast appearance — how she crossed into a male-dominated space under attack, while Democrats still don’t understand how to bridge that divide. insideauthoritarianism.substack.com/p/taylor-swi...

Taylor Swift Understood the Assignment. Democrats Still Don't.When Taylor Swift announced her new album "The Life of a Showgirl" on the "New Heights" podcast, many dismissed it as cheeky and unserious: the world's biggest superstar announcing her 12th album...insideauthoritarianism.substack.com

Why the press conference of the California governor looks like any opposition event in Moscow I was at 🤡 The speed of democratic backsliding is insane. By any logic such intimidation should not be happening this early, especially to a governor

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How long ago did Google main page became so propagandistic? I never use search and I was shocked now when I did, I am having authoritarian flashbacks

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Russsia just declared Yale University an “undesirable organization.” It means anyone affiliated with Yale (with any citizenship) — or even who has used Yale logo in a post — can get up to 6 years of prison. Official reason: the university hosts a “training center for protest activity leaders.”

Are we sure that TikTok is selling its US segment finally (per recent reports)? They are hiring too many policy people, inc. on state level, for a company that is supposedly leaving the market

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On 4th of July. What I was thinking about lately. In America, there is not even an idea of being against the American state. Unlike nations built around shared ethnicity or culture, America was founded as an ideological project — the American dream itself is supposed to be non-partisan.

My Harvard school is basically opening a second campus in Canada this fall. Wild times.

Got a spread at Sunday’s edition of New York Times! You can read for free using the gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

My essay for New York Times on how authoritarianism is coming to America. I see American struggle to describe the new reality — so, I translated some Russian terms that do. Trump, Putin, Elon — and how police and armed forces are becoming political instruments: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

Opinion | Here’s What’s Happening in America, in Six (Mostly) Russian Termswww.nytimes.com

Times so weird that our Harvard graduation ceremony is at the same time that Harvard has a court hearing on cancelling all of our visas. We will probably know the decision while still at the ceremony. Insane.

It will be funny if in a few years people start to get arrested for wearing Harvard symbols. I wish I was joking but I have half of a suitcase with symbols that were perfectly normal in late 2010s and are now extremist / terrorist / undesirable and probably most samples are destroyed.

Me in New York Times saying I am looking for a job (because where else I should announce it?), while simultaneously comparing American democratic backsliding to what I saw in Russia www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

Shock at Harvard After Government Says International Students Must Gowww.nytimes.com

My piece on 100 days of Trump on how the end of USAID will provoke global instability: 1) much of the autocratic world will go into darkness; 2) predicting international security crises will be difficult; 3) Russia & China will fill the vacuum with disinformation. www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...