Underreported: Reform in Russia
The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
We discuss the pace of reform in Russia, Moscow’s current attitudes towards the West, and why Pres. Dmitry Medvedev is now pushing to extend the presidential term.
Nina Khrushcheva teaches international affairs at the New School; she’s also the author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics and is the granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev. Her article in the Fall 2008 World Policy Journal is "Russia's Rotting Empire."
