Kevin Rothrock

RuNet Echo Project Editor

Global Voices Online

Kevin Rothrock is an editor for Global Voices Online's RuNet Echo project, which explores the Russian-lanugage Internet.

Native son of the San Francisco Bay Area. Masters from UC Berkeley in Soviet History. Between 2009 and 2011, I worked with Leon Aron in Washington, DC, at the American Enterprise Institute. Since 2010, I've blogged at "A Good Treaty" and tweeted at @KevinRothrock. Doctoral student in Political Science at UConn, where I'm also Managing Editor of the political science journal Polity.


Two people in masks in front of three portraits of Putin, Le Pen and Trump

A youth movement will be partying this Friday to ‘Make America Great Again’ — in Russia

Global Politics

Invitations went out over social media this week, informing journalists about inauguration festivities organized by the “White Star” art collective, which includes several prominent figures in Russia’s pro-Kremlin youth movement.

Women forced to walk nude through the streets en route to a police station. “Activists” captured them for practicing prostitution.

‘Activists’ attack St. Petersburg bordellos, forcing women to march nude to police

Justice
Flying Spaghetti Monster

Russia gets its very first Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Belief
Children Versus Wizards

Russia’s anti-Semitic, anti-Harry Potter children’s tale

Media
Screenshot from the music video for Leningrad’s new song “Display Exhibit” (“Exponat”). YouTube.

Why is a Russian art museum granting free admission to women wearing 4-Inch stilettos?

Arts
A small collection of the submissions to the “Russian Beauty” contest (from both competitors and protesters).

Conservative group launches ‘modest dress’ contest for women. What could possibly go wrong?

Culture

How women’s activists, angry at what they saw as chauvinism, derailed a conservative group’s “Russian Beauty” contest.

Apple monument in Russia

Russia’s Steve Jobs memorial looks set to leave the country

Lifestyle

When Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, publicly revealed that he was gay, it was met largely with support and, frankly, little surprise. Cook hadn’t been in the closet, he just hadn’t talked about it publicly. But one place where the announcement was panned was Russia, and in response a Russian university took down a memorial that been erected to Apple’s founding CEO, Steve Jobs.

A group of Russian servicemen detained by Ukrainian authorities attend a news conference in Kiev on August 27, 2014. Ukraine said on Tuesday its forces had captured a group of Russian paratroopers who had crossed into Ukrainian territory on a "special mis

Evidence mounts, some in secret, of Russian soldiers invading Ukraine

Conflict

Ukraine has displayed Russian soldiers it says were part of an unannounced Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine. But Russian journalists have also also sniffed out possible hidden evidence of that invasion by tracking down the graves of dead Russian soldiers on social media.

Hunger strikes are last resort for Pussy Riot band member and Russian mothers

Global Politics

In Russia, women are using hunger strikes to draw attention to what they perceive as injustice. But only one hunger strike, by a member of the band Pussy Riot, is really drawing attention.