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Kim Zigfeld

Kim Zigfeld is a New York City-based writer who publishes her own Russia specialty blog, La Russophobe. She also writes about Russia for the American Thinker and for Russia! magazine and is researching a book on the rise of dictatorship in Putin’s Russia.
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It’s the Russians, Stupid

Thursday, March 19th, 2009 - by Kim Zigfeld

It's up to the GOP to work to prevent a neo-Soviet state in Russia: the Obama administration certainly won't.

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Russia Snubs Obama Overture

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 - by Kim Zigfeld

The president badly bungled his first effort at relations with Moscow.

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Obama Hopelessly Adrift on Foreign Policy

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 - by Kim Zigfeld

Monday's press conference was one of the most frightening in presidential history.

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Surprise: Political Murders Continue in Russia

Sunday, February 1st, 2009 - by Kim Zigfeld

It's time for Western leaders, including Barack Obama, to demand a stop to Putin's thuggery.

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Standing Up to Putin

Friday, December 19th, 2008 - by Kim Zigfeld

Roman Dobrokhotov is just the latest in a line of young heroes who have stood against the neo-Sovietization of Russia.

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Who Really Started the Russian-Georgian Conflict?

Friday, November 28th, 2008 - by Kim Zigfeld

Leaks from a report by a group investigating Moscow's aggression add fuel to a controversy.

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Is Wired Magazine’s ‘Military Correspondent’ a Kremlin Dupe? (Part 2)

Sunday, September 21st, 2008 - by Kim Zigfeld

More evidence that we should take Russia-Georgia reporting by David Axe with a grain of salt.

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Is Wired Magazine’s ‘Military Correspondent’ a Kremlin Dupe?

Friday, September 12th, 2008 - by Kim Zigfeld

Wired unplugs from reality in its coverage of the Russia-Georgia war.

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Will NATO Abandon Ukraine Too?

Friday, August 22nd, 2008 - by Kim Zigfeld

A newly aggressive Russia sure hopes so.

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Russia’s Pathetic Defenders

Saturday, August 16th, 2008 - by Kim Zigfeld

Those trying to justify Russia's actions come off looking like morons or maniacs — or both.

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Russian Hate Crimes on the Rise

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 - by Kim Zigfeld

Here's what happens when a country that dislikes foreigners must rely on immigrant labor.

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Warning: Opposing Putin Hazardous to Your Health

Friday, July 25th, 2008 - by Kim Zigfeld

New evidence that standing up to the Kremlin can be a poisonous proposition — literally.

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How Putin Muzzled the Moscow Times

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 - by Kim Zigfeld

The Moscow Times was once a fearless champion for freedom of the press. But Vladmir Putin's relentless crackdown on the media has changed that.

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Curt Weldon: The Congressman Who Came In from the Cold

Thursday, June 12th, 2008 - by Kim Zigfeld

Was Pennsylvania's former congressman spying — knowingly or unknowingly — for the Kremlin?

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A Russian Documents the Truth About Russia

Saturday, May 17th, 2008 - by Kim Zigfeld

Politician and activist Boris Nemtsov has produced an eye-opening study that outlines the failure and looming disaster of Putin's Russia. Not many people inside his country will get to read it, though.

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Russia’s 2014 Olympics a Disaster in the Making

Sunday, May 4th, 2008 - by Kim Zigfeld

Putin admits that the city of Sochi has "no proper sewage system, electricity supply, or infrastructure." And Chechnya is right next door.

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Ethnic Cleansing in Russia

Sunday, April 6th, 2008 - by Kim Zigfeld

Great Russian Chauvinism is back, as Moscow tries to expel all "illegal" immigrants of "Caucasian nationality."

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Russia vs. Blogging

Thursday, March 20th, 2008 - by Kim Zigfeld

Arresting bloggers can be added to the long list of the Kremlin's encroachments on human rights, writes Kim Zigfeld. So much for free speech in Russia.

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The New Cold War With Russia

Sunday, March 9th, 2008 - by Kim Zigfeld

Kim Zigfeld is glad the tide is turning on the Western perception of Putinism. Two new books focus on the menacing signs coming from the Kremlin.

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Is Mikhail Kasyanov the Latest Putin Victim?

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 - by Kim Zigfeld

Vladimir Putin has now not only disqualified his former prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov from running for president, he's threatened him with prison. It's just the latest in a long series of dictatorial intimidation in the New Russia, argues Kim Zigfeld.

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Putin in Europe’s Legal Crosshairs

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 - by Kim Zigfeld

The autocratic regime of Vladimir Putin is increasingly falling afoul of international law. As Kim Zigfeld reports, Russia is now faced with European lawsuits by the former shareholders of Yukos Oil, verdicts of state-sponsored murders in Chechnya, thwarted attempts to undermine Georgian democracy, and plans to shut down the British Council.

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A Thorn in Putin’s Side Named Oleg Kozlovsky

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 - by Kim Zigfeld

Meet Russian opposition leader Oleg Kozlovsky, who has "effectively held the Kremlin's feet to the fire of democracy." So much so that he has been "terrorized and silenced," writes Kim Zigfeld.

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TIME ® Is Not on Our Side

Monday, December 10th, 2007 - by Kim Zigfeld

Why would a senior editor of Time write an article so favorable to Russia that it could have come directly from the Kremlin? Kim Zigfeld wonders about the magazine's agenda.

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Putin Wins, Russia Loses

Monday, December 3rd, 2007 - by Kim Zigfeld

Vladimir Putin's landslide victory in Russia's weekend elections is worrisome whether or not the accusations of fraud and "dirty tricks" prove true, writes Kim Zigfeld. If they were legit, "it means the population of Russia is willingly embracing what can only be called a neo-Soviet dictatorship. If they were fraudulent, "it means we already see before us a fully realized totalitarian state. Either way, it's a dark new age for Russia."

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Putin Out to Fix Russian Election

Friday, November 30th, 2007 - by Kim Zigfeld

Russians head to the polls on Sunday to vote in their country's parliamentary elections. Kim Zigfeld warns that it won't be a fine moment for democracy because President Vladimir Putin is determined to manipulate the outcome.

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