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Nina Khrushcheva
For Nina Khrushcheva's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 5, 2021
Ivanka the Inevitable?
Ivanka may be considering a Senate run, especially if her father plans to run for re-election in 2024.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 3, 2018
Trump's gambling problem
The U.S. president is betting away America's most precious asset — its global credit — and driving more countries toward Russia.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 3, 2017
Why it matters when artists criticize Trump
It is often the arts, serious or satirical, that expose the tragic absurdity of repressive leadership. And the worse Trump behaves, the more demand there will be for artists who oppose him.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 22, 2017
America's Russian hypocrisy
Washington's campaign against Russian President Vladimir Putin exposes the pattern of duplicity that has pervaded U.S. foreign policy.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 18, 2015
Why Czar Vladimir Putin is always correct
Russians have endured some of the worst despots in history, yet they have a near-apocalyptic fear of change of power.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 4, 2015
What does Vladimir Putin really want in Ukraine?
Sowing confusion is how Russian President Vladimir Putin, increasingly isolated from Western conversations, keeps the world on its toes about the conflict in Ukraine.
COMMENTARY
Jan 20, 2015
Proven scare tactics serve Putin well
President Vladimir Putin knows that the canny use of fear and forgiveness will allow him to retain his grip on power.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 16, 2013
Putin's display of a Peronist persona
After nearly 14 years in power, perhaps the best comparative description of Russian President Vladimir Putin may be a transgender cross between the former Argentine leader Juan Peron and his legendary wife, Evita
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 4, 2012
Final ride for the Putin showboat?
Vladimir Putin's new presidential term is just beginning, but it increasingly looks like the beginning of the end.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 5, 2011
Reformer for the delusional
The only vote that matters in Russia's 2012 presidential election is now in, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has cast it for himself. He will be returning as Russia's president next year.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 3, 2010
The resistance to Russia's political order
MOSCOW — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's decision to fire Moscow's long-entrenched mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, is the most decisive move of his presidency. Is it really part of his drive to modernize Russia, or part of an emerging power play with Moscow's real strong man, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin?
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 16, 2010
Cruelty of chance deals Poland another blow
MOSCOW — In Russia, somewhere behind every event lurks the question: Who is to blame? In the tragedy that claimed the lives of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 other Polish leaders, we can answer that question with certainty in at least one respect: History is to blame.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 5, 2010
Sunday's stakes in Ukraine
MOSCOW — "A pox on both your houses" may be an appropriate individual response to frustration with the political candidates on offer in an election. But it is a dangerous sentiment for governments to hold. Choice is the essence of governance, and to abstain from it — for whatever reason — is to shirk responsibility.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 2, 2009
Two funerals plus the legacy of Khrushchev
NEW YORK — My great-grandfather, Nikita Khrushchev, has been on my mind recently. I suppose it was the 50th anniversary of the "kitchen debate," which he held with Richard Nixon that first triggered my memories.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 10, 2008
Russia's convertible icon
MOSCOW — Prophets, it is said, are supposed to be without honor in their homeland. Yet Moscow has just witnessed the extraordinary sight of Alexander Solzhenitsyn — the dissident and once-exiled author of the "Gulag Archipelago" and "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" receiving what amounts to a state funeral, with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin acting as chief mourner.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 8, 2007
No graceful exit for Russia's Grand Putin
VIENNA — For those who still wondered who Vladimir Putin is, the mystery is over. His latest actions show that he is Russia's new autocrat. He is a czar, pure and simple. The seven years since Putin assumed power in the Kremlin have been a time of conflicting signals. On one hand, he appears to be an educated and dynamic leader committed to modernizing Russia. On the other, with the help of the military-industrial KGB complex — the "siloviki" — he has systematically weakened or destroyed every check on his personal power, while strengthening the state's ability to violate citizens' constitutional rights.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 5, 2007
Mirror images of arrogance
NEW YORK — This week's summit of the major Group of Eight nations will probably be the last such meeting for U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 13, 2006
Silent consent to lawlessness
NEW YORK -- It is time to end the fiction that Vladimir Putin's "dictatorship of law" has made postcommunist Russia any less lawless. The murder last Satur- day of Anna Politkovskaya, one of Russia's bravest and best journalists, a woman who dared to expose the brutal murders committed by Russian troops in Chechnya, is final proof that Putin has delivered nothing more than a run-of-the-mill dictatorship with the usual contempt for law.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 25, 2006
State glory: gulag of the Russian mind
NEW YORK -- It is now 15 years since the failed coup of August 1991 against Mikhail Gorbachev. At the time, Gorbachev's policies of perestroika and glasnost were seen by Soviet hardliners as a sellout of communist Russia to the capitalist West. But it is now clear that the KGB and the military who launched the coup were not defending the idea of communism. They were protecting their idea of Russia's imperial mission, a notion that had given the Kremlin commissars greater control of the vast Russian empire, and of Russia's neighbors, than any of the czars had ever enjoyed.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.
Over 40% of Japan's municipalities at risk of vanishing, study finds
Of 1,729 local municipalities nationwide, 744 have been identified as being at risk of disappearing.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Tokyo issues strong warning on yen intervention as currency dips further
Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki speaks during a meeting with U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and South Korean Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok on the sidelines of IMF and G20 meetings in Washington last week.
Princess Aiko makes debut at imperial garden party
Princess Aiko attends an imperial garden party in Tokyo on Tuesday.
For amateur sumo, a fresh start offers hope against time-wasting and gamesmanship
Wrestlers prepare for the start of a bout at the 2023 Sumo World Championships in Tokyo. Starting this month, placing one hand on the clay first is no longer allowed.
LDP veteran Nikai's youngest son expected to succeed him in Wakayama
Toshihiro Nikai, former secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party, announced in March that he would not run in the next Lower House election to take responsibility for the political funds scandal that rocked his party and his own faction.
New workers name Shohei Ohtani as 'dream boss' for two years running
Shohei Ohtani has been overwhelmingly voted as the “dream boss” for people who started working in April, according to a survey.
A craft beer crawl through Tokyo’s top bars, brewpubs and dives
If all you drink is Asahi, Sapporo and Kirin, you're depriving yourself of some of the best craft beer Tokyo has to offer — and there sure is a lot of it out there.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.

Podcast

From easily navigable train stations to the helpfulness of its municipal staff, Tokyo has earned high praise for its commitment to accessibility for disabled travelers.
[Rebroadcast] Japan is doing better on accessibility than you may think

Longform

Later this month, author Shogo Imamura will open Honmaru, a bookstore that allows other businesses to rent its shelves. It's part of a wave of ideas Japanese booksellers are trying to compete with online spaces.
The story isn't over for Japan's bookstores
By Alex K.T. Martin

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