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The West Made Its Bed, Now Russia Will Lie In China's
• April 11, 2013
• 900 Words • 10 Comments
The latest US-Russia.org Experts Panel discussion was about Russia's burgeoning partnership with China. I especially recommend Mercouris' contribution which - although unfortunately titled by VoR's editorial staff)) - is otherwise quite brilliant. My own effort follows below: First of all, let me preface that I’m one of the biggest China bulls around. Its economy in... Read More
A Values Chasm That Can't be Bridged... At Least for Now
• March 14, 2013
• 500 Words • No Comments
My latest for VoR and US-Russia.org on Russia's recent Foreign Policy Concept: The new foreign-policy concept is a long-overdue adjustment to international realities. There can be no meaningful "strategic partnership" between Russia and the US or indeed Russia and the West in general, when their respective core values have diverged from each other so much.... Read More
Russia's Budget Is Getting More Transparent
• January 24, 2013
• 1,000 Words • 3 Comments
Not often that you see Russia in some color other than bloody red on a world map of corruption or institutional quality. But according to the Open Budget Index (2012 results), the Russian budget is actually pretty transparent as far as these things go. Of the major countries, only the UK (88), France (83), and... Read More
The Flight from Reason - the West's Cold War Against Russia
• October 23, 2012
• 700 Words • 51 Comments
My latest contribution to the US-Russia.org Expert Discussion Panel this one focusing on whether the West foregoes "incalculable benefits" by continuing the Cold War. Unlike previous Panels, on which I aimed for balance, here I make no apologies at pointing a finger straight to where I believe the blame belongs: I recently began reading Martin... Read More
Alex Dryden, A Hack's Hack
• June 26, 2012
• 1,300 Words • 29 Comments
Just when I thought the paper of Luke "I Plagiarize Off The eXile" Harding and Miriam "Putin Stole My Dry Cleaning Ticket" Elder could get no more incompetent, vindictive, and mendacious in its Russia coverage, it did. I present: Putin calls in Darth Vader to tighten his grip on Russia's energy assets by Alex Dryden,... Read More
Ernst & Young: Russian Corruption Is Rather Banal By World Standards, and Improving
• May 29, 2012
• 200 Words • 29 Comments
When I cited TI figures showing that Russian everyday corruption is middling by global standards (percentage paying bribes: 26%, compared to 15% in Latvia, 18% in Greece, 24% in Hungary, 28% in Romania) - as opposed to being on the same plank with Zimbabwe or Liberia - one of the most common counter-arguments was that... Read More
New Year Special: 2012 Predictions
• January 3, 2012
• 4,000 Words • 215 Comments
It's been a great year! To recap, in rough chronological order, 2011 saw: The most popular post (with 562 comments and counting; granted, most of them consisting of Indians and Pakistanis flaming each other); Visualizing the Kremlin Clans (joint project with Kevin Rothrock of A Good Treaty); my National Comparisons between life in Russia, Britain,... Read More
Russia's Economic "Stagnation" In Global Perspective
• July 14, 2011
• 1,500 Words • 40 Comments
Иn the wake of the 2009 recession, declinist rhetoric has come to dominate discussion of Russia's economic prospects. Jim O'Neill, the founder of the BRIC's concept, has his work cut out defending Russia's expulsion from the group in favor of Indonesia, Mexico, or some other random middle-sized country. Journalists in the Western media claim its... Read More
Names of the Oligarchs On A Map of the Motherland*
• July 2, 2011
• 600 Words • 13 Comments
Not really arguing anything in this post, just sharing some interesting stats I found about the affluent class in Russia (as compared with BRIC's and others). First, as we know Russia is (in)famous for the opulence of it oligarchy. But according to the research firm Wealth-X, despite a relatively high number of billionaires, its overall... Read More
Future Superpowers - the World to 2100
• June 27, 2011
• 3,100 Words • 141 Comments
Most projections of future trends in national power fail to appreciate the importance of three crucial factors: (1) the declining EROEI of energy resources (including, but not limited to, "peak oil"); (2) the importance of human capital to economic growth, especially in developing countries' attempts to "catch up" to the advanced world; and (3) the... Read More
Everyone Is Still Underestimating China
• August 18, 2010
• 1,500 Words • 25 Comments
There's been lots of fanfare over China's GDP overtaking Japan's in Q2 2010 (coming hard on the heels of a big ruckus over its DF-21 "carrier killing" ballistic missile and rising tensions with the US over North Korea and the South China Sea). The big debate is now whether China will overtake the US as... Read More
Why Russia Is Cemented to the Other BRICs
• June 13, 2010
• 2,400 Words • 6 Comments
In the wake of the economic crisis in which Russia's GDP fell by a stunning 7.9% in 2009, its status as a BRIC economy - with its connotations of promise and progress - was brought into question. After all, isn't it a dying nation with rapidly degrading infrastructure? Isn't it amazingly corrupt? Wouldn't its contempt... Read More
Decoupling from the Unwinding
• March 28, 2009
• 2,900 Words • 17 Comments
Three months ago I wrote an extensive analysis of Russia's economy during the crisis in which I said that although it is going to be damaged by the shutdown of its traditional financing mechanism - cheap credit from the West - sovereign solvency will not be threatened and there will be a strong recovery in... Read More
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Anatoly Karlin
About Anatoly Karlin

I am a blogger, thinker, and businessman in the SF Bay Area. I’m originally from Russia, spent many years in Britain, and studied at U.C. Berkeley.

One of my tenets is that ideologies tend to suck. As such, I hesitate about attaching labels to myself. That said, if it’s really necessary, I suppose “liberal-conservative neoreactionary” would be close enough.

Though I consider myself part of the Orthodox Church, my philosophy and spiritual views are more influenced by digital physics, Gnosticism, and Russian cosmism than anything specifically Judeo-Christian.