Today La Russophobe is pleased to announce a new feature, bilingual columns. We offer three such features today, first from Ethan Berger of Georgetown Law Center and the American University and then from Andrei Piontovsky of the Hudson Institute, both scholars in Washington DC, and finally from blogger David McDuff of A Day at a Time. Following the English text of each column is a high-quality Russian translation. Berger addresses the killing of Anna Politkovskaya, McDuff addresses the killing of Alexander Litvinenko (translating KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky) and Piontkovsky looks at the big picture of Russia's "paranoid style" of governance.

Such material is not always available to LR, but when it is we are happy to make this a bilingual blog. Comments in Russian are always welcome on any post and Russian submissions for publication are happily considered, translation provided.

Also note that we follow our scholarly hat trick with yet a fourth such analysis, from the Carnegie Center's Nikolai Petrov, who offers a case study on Russian corruption. Unfortunately a Russian version does not seem to be available.