David Satter

Never Speak to Strangers and Other Writing from Russia and the Soviet Union


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A Tragic Master Plan

       The Failure of Russian Reformers

       Rude Awakening

       Yeltsin: Modified Victory

       Organized Crime Is Smothering Russian Civil Society

       The Wild East

       The Shadow of Aum Shinri Kyo

       The Cost of the Yeltsin Presidency

       The Rise of the Russian Criminal State

       David Satter interviews Ida Milgrom, the mother of Jewish dissident, Anatoly Shcharansky, outside the courthouse in Moscow where Shcharansky was tried in July, 1978. In the background (center) is Kevin Klose, Moscow correspondent of The Washington Post (photo by Robin Knight).

       The Human Rights Situation in Russia

       Anatomy of a Massacre

       The Shadow of Ryazan

       Not so Quick

       Death in Moscow

       Stalin’s Legacy

       A Low, Dishonest Decadence

       Terror in Russia: Myths and Facts

       Ordinary Monsters

       The Murder of Paul Klebnikov

       The Tragedy of Beslan

       The Communist Curse

       Stalin Is Back

       What Andropov Knew

       G-8 Crasher

       Nikita Khrushchev’s Hard Bargains

       Who Killed Litvinenko?

       Boris Yeltsin

       Russia on Trial

       Land for Peace

       Putin Changes Jobs—and Russia

       Poisonous Patriotism

       Obama and Russia

       Who Murdered These Russian Journalists?

       Obama’s Outreach to Muslims Won’t Achieve Its Goal

       Putin Runs the Russian State —and the Russian Church Too

       Mission to Moscow

       Obama’s Russian Odyssey

       Psyching out U.S. Leaders

       The President’s Mission to Moscow

       The Summit: Day 2

       Natalya Estemirova

       A Wounded Bear Is Dangerous

       Pining for Authoritarianism

       Remembering Beslan

       Afghanistan: Lessons from the Soviet Invasion

       Yesterday Communism, Today Radical Islam

       A Passion to Relive the Past

       Road to ‘Zero’

       Symposium: Is Hannah Arendt Still Relevant?

       Women Who Blow Themselves Up

       A Hollow Achievement in Prague

       Symposium: When Does a Religion Become an Ideology?

       That Russian Spy Ring: The Broader Meaning

       Never Forget: New Fanatical Ideology, Same Prescription: Defeat

       Khodorkovsky’s Fate

       Putin’s Facade Begins to Crumble

       Why Putin Is Tottering

       The Character of Russia

       Obama’s Open Microphone

       Russia’s Chance for Redemption

       Russia and the Communist Past

       Awaiting the Next Revolution

       Clinton in the WSJ Strays on Russia Relations

       Punk-Rock Authoritarianism

       The Long Shadow of “Nord Ost”

       Russia’s Orphans

       David Satter on Life in the Soviet Police State

       Russians Arrest CIA Agent

       The NSA and the Soviet Union

       Obama Defends Putin

       Russia’s False Concern for Children

       Putin and Obama in St. Petersburg

       The Curse of Russian “Exceptionalism”

       Snowden’s New Identity

       Did Putin Insult the Pope?

       Why Journalists Frighten Putin

       Open Letter to Margarita Simonyan, Chief Editor of Russia Today

       My Expulsion from Russia

       Putin’s Shaky Hold on Power

       The Russian State of Murder Under Putin

       Putin Is No Partner on Terrorism

       Russia Questions for Rex Tillerson

       The ‘Trump Report’ Is a Russian Provocation

       Trump Gives a Boost to Putin’s Propaganda

       From Russia With Chaos

       Trump Must Stand Strong Against Putin

       How America Helped Make Vladimir Putin Dictator for Life

       Who Killed Boris Nemtsov?

       100 Years of Communism —and 100 Million Dead

       A Christmas Encounter With the ‘Russian Soul’

       How to Answer Russia’s Escalation

       Putin’s Aggression Is the Issue in Helsinki

       The Satirist Who Mocked the Kremlin —and Russian Character

       When Russian Democracy Died

       Contribution to “We Need Sakharov”

       Collusion or Russian Disinformation?

       A Pioneer Who Witnessed Revolutions

       Hold Russia Accountable for MH17

       Afterword to English Language Edition of Judgment in Moscow

       Acknowledgements

      Administrative Delineations

      FSB — Federal Security Service

      FSO