Kevin Rothrock
RuNet Echo Project Editor
Global Voices OnlineKevin 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.
A youth movement will be partying this Friday to 'Make America Great Again' — in Russia
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.
‘Activists’ attack St. Petersburg bordellos, forcing women to march nude to police
Russia gets its very first Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Russia's anti-Semitic, anti-Harry Potter children's tale
Why is a Russian art museum granting free admission to women wearing 4-Inch stilettos?
Conservative group launches 'modest dress' contest for women. What could possibly go wrong?
How women's activists, angry at what they saw as chauvinism, derailed a conservative group's "Russian Beauty'' contest.
Russia's Steve Jobs memorial looks set to leave the country
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.
Evidence mounts, some in secret, of Russian soldiers invading Ukraine
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
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.