About Maxim Trudolyubov Maxim Trudolyubov is a senior fellow at the Kennan Institute. Articles by Maxim Trudolyubov Sept. 30, 2020, 2:22 pm Maxim Trudolyubov: Moscow tells its story in the passive voice April 7, 2020, 9:38 am Maxim Trudolyubov: Late in the game, Russia steps up to Covid-19 Feb. 18, 2020, 9:46 pm Maxim Trudolyubov: Drop the corruption, keep the authoritarianism Advertisement Nov. 25, 2019, 11:45 am Maxim Trudolyubov: Authorities need ‘foreign agents’ to rally the people Oct. 15, 2018, 5:27 pm Maxim Trudolyubov: How will the Kremlin respond? April 8, 2018, 3:25 pm Maxim Trudolyubov: Survival is Darwinian March 25, 2018, 5:21 pm Maxim Trudolyubov: The last thing Putin wants is to be Russia’s lame duck president March 6, 2018, 2:49 pm Maxim Trudolyubov: Putin is pushing a war mentality on unwilling Russians Feb. 23, 2018, 3:13 pm Maxim Trudolyubov: The Kremlin’s parallel state is a feature, not a bug Feb. 1, 2018, 2:30 pm Maxim Trudolyubov: Russian meddling is a meme Jan. 8, 2018, 5:38 pm Maxim Trudolyubov: A game with unknown rules Nov. 18, 2017, 11:20 am Maxim Trudolyubov: Why do most Russians still watch state TV? Nov. 4, 2017, 5:32 pm Maxim Trudolyubov: Putin’s elites hanker after a lost Russian imperial empire Oct. 8, 2017, 11:38 am Maxim Trudolyubov: Why Russian television sticks to foreign stories Aug. 7, 2017, 10:14 am Maxim Trudolyubov: The view from the Kremlin – survival is Darwinian April 3, 2017, 7:42 pm Maxim Trudolyubov: Russia is a political hazard zone Feb. 23, 2017, 4:27 pm Maxim Trudolyubov: The art of being a problem Jan. 27, 2017, 4:42 pm Maxim Trudolyubov: Will Trump outsmart Putin? Or will Putin outsmart Trump? Nov. 11, 2016, 12:46 pm RFE/RL: ‘Very risky period’ – Trump’s effect on US-Russian relations Nov. 3, 2016, 5:23 pm Maxim Trudolyubov: Russia substitutes politicized history for politics Oct. 12, 2016, 3:58 pm Maxim Trudolyubov: The Russia-US partnership, driven to a new low Sept. 8, 2016, 12:29 pm Maxim Trudolyubov: A young man, Pokemon and Russian Orthodoxy Aug. 16, 2016, 3:09 pm Maxim Trudolyubov: How Putin manipulates national emergencies June 3, 2016, 3:49 pm Maxim Trudolyubov: Putin has a dangerous plan ‘to make Russia great again’ May 27, 2016, 8:23 am Maxim Trudolyubov: The sore losers of Russia April 7, 2016, 11:37 am Maxim Trudolyubov: Panama reaction reveals Russia’s two value systems March 24, 2016, 2:38 pm Maxim Trudolyubov: Three rules of Kremlin power Feb. 3, 2016, 9:59 pm Maxim Trudolyubov: More than a war of words Jan. 18, 2016, 10:37 pm Maxim Trudolyubov: Russia’s in the tank, but Putin rides high Oct. 21, 2015, 11:06 am Maxim Trudolyubov: How Russia works – Russian opinion polls come full circle Sept. 16, 2015, 6:35 pm Maxim Trudolyubov: Russia’s latest fake election May 6, 2015, 2:38 pm Maxim Trudolyubov: Putin’s grudging perestroika March 30, 2015, 8:36 am Maxim Trudolyubov: Moscow’s twisted history lessons Feb. 3, 2015, 7:32 am Maxim Trudolyubov: Putin’s Evolution Jan. 2, 2015, 4:49 pm Maxim Trudolyubov: Russia’s lost time Dec. 8, 2014, 12:41 am Maxim Trudolyubov: Russia unplugged Oct. 24, 2014, 5:51 pm Maxim Trudolyubov: Russia’s halfway house Sept. 16, 2014, 9:25 am Maxim Trudolyubov: Putin’s playbook Aug. 18, 2014, 8:04 am Maxim Trudolyubov: St. Petersburg to Moscow, and back July 22, 2014, 7:43 am Maxim Trudolyubov: Russia’s anti-West isolationism June 18, 2014, 6:19 pm Maxim Trudolyubov: Putin’s crossed vision