Encouraging article but would challenge your assessment of a current duopoly between AT&T and Verizon. T-Mobile now has 32% of the cell phone market, higher than AT&T’s share. This competition has enormous advantages, especially for travelers overseas, where T-Mobile offers superior alternative.

73 works of mine apparently captured, including 4 of 5 books (the exception was a co-edit). Some have links to the works, though they are paywalled or links are broken.

Given the time needed for interpreting, especially for Trump's non-linear delivery (putting it nicely), this seems like a fairly short discussion that is likely to have left most major issues unresolved.

It's critical to remember who stations like Azattyk reach through their online stories and publications, not just among elites in Kyrgyzstan but Western scholars and journalists. And estimates of listeners to the Farsi service of RL are quite high. It had clearly not outlived its usefulness.

You’ve written the book on the silovoki and I keep wondering how far Putin can allow some in security services to go in carping at the military leadership through milbloggers and YouTubers. Some criticism and interagency tension is useful for Putin but at what point does it become destabilizing?

Lambasts Russian military leadership for its failures in Syria, Kursk, and elsewhere; says he is being fed the information on this from a source in the security services. Takeaway: he wants "rotation" of personnel, meaning a housecleaning. No direct criticism of Putin, of course, but seems implied.

It was a reflection of my own ignorance about Russia's richness and diversity that I was surprised to meet a person of such depth, humanity, and professionalism in Udmurtia. My heart aches for his wife and family. This affront to justice is one more reason among thousands to fight against tyranny.

Dmitrii Talantov was one of the most decent and honorable advocates I met during decades of research on the Russian Bar. We met in his city of Izhevsk in 2003 and he graciously allowed me to observe an oral Bar exam. Among Russia's finest, his arrest and imprisonment come as devastating news.

Sympathetic to the argument but the one-party South didn’t eliminate competition within the party,especially at state level. The worst authoritarianism was local, with courthouse rings and domineering sheriffs.

Your post on my feed followed immediately after a story on the millions of hours of lost sleep among Ukrainians. We are being bombarded by lies; they are being subjected to the sound and fury of live ordnance almost every night. Puts things in perspective.