Tag Archives: Human Rights Watch

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – June 11, 2013

By Citizen M | Published: June 11, 2013

TODAY: All-Russia People’s Front a move towards grassroots activism?; candidates for Moscow mayor speaking out against migrant workers, Luzkhov to team up with Prokhorov to win race; Duma debates homosexual propaganda law as LGBT film festival is fined; no bids for Greece’s Depa from Gazprom; Russia has top shale oil reserve; Navalny calls on judge [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – April 25, 2013

By Citizen M | Published: April 25, 2013

TODAY: Navalny calls trial ‘political revenge’; golden parachutes not restricted in state monopolies; rights groups issue scathing reports; Putin to hold Q&A today; corruption revealed in connection with Angolan debt; U.S. officials travel to Dagestan over Boston bombing. Alexei Navalny, the anticorruption blogger who once branded United Russia as ‘the party of crooks and thieves’, [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – April 4, 2013

By Citizen M | Published: April 4, 2013

TODAY: Navalny trial announced; new law to protect procurement; Putin orders Gazprom to revisit Yamal pipeline plan in potential blow to Ukraine; Pussy Riot Alyokhina to be transferred; prison guard given suspended sentence for murder; VTB’s Tele2 deal approved; Bazhenov. A provincial court has announced that the widely criticised and ‘politically motivated’ trial of Alexei [...]

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NGOs: Bureaucratic Pressure and the Balance of Power

By Citizen M | Published: April 1, 2013

For the second time this year, a Kremlin official has slammed the United States for ‘undisguised interference’ in relation to foreign funding for Russia-based NGOs.  Aleksandr Lukashevich made these statements in response to the U.S. reasserting its intentions to continue funding such NGOs through third-country mediators, which, says Lukashevich, is an attempt to circumvent Russian laws [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – March 28, 2013

By Citizen M | Published: March 28, 2013

TODAY: Offices of Human Rights Watch searched as NGO crackdown continues; two rights bureau chiefs called in for questioning; gay pride advocate assaulted. Miners missing; gas exports to Serbia could increase dramatically; Russia’s plans for post-NATO Afghanistan; deputies drawing the line at foreign bank account restrictions.  The Moscow offices of Human Rights Watch, corruption watchdog [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – March 22, 2013

By Citizen M | Published: March 22, 2013

TODAY: Government investigating NGOs; police behind May rally clashes? Medvedev pushing for Cyprus solution; Putin’s seals Rosneft deal; Chinese President in Russia for energy deals; Bolshoi probe. Prosecutors are conducting wide-ranging checks on hundreds of nongovernmental organisations, with one rights worker alleging that up to 2,000 searches have been made since last month (a case in [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Feb 7, 2013

By Citizen M | Published: February 7, 2013

TODAY: Putin promises Olympic site will be ready on time, slams officials over delays and costs; court backs Madonna over homosexual propaganda case; rights ombudsman says same-sex marriage laws in Europe will complicate Russian adoptions; VTB loses U.K. court bid; NGOs complain in E.U.; Kasparov slams Goldman Sachs image deal; Udaltsov fistfight at Dolmatov memorial; [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Feb 1, 2013

By Citizen M | Published: February 1, 2013

TODAY: HRW slams Russia for worst human rights year since Soviet times; Russia welcomes new U.S. Secretary of State; Pussy Riot member sent to hospital; central bank rejects Putin’s calls to ease monetary policy; Ukraine says it will settle with Gazprom according to the terms of its contract; temporary return of ‘Stalingrad’ draws criticism. The Foreign [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Jan 28, 2013

By Citizen M | Published: January 28, 2013

TODAY: Preliminary hearing in Magnitsky trial delayed; contrary to Medvedev’s statements, business elites unhappy about Magnitsky fallout; Prime Minister defends adoption law; Naftogaz gets $7 billion bill; U.S. withdraws from joint commission; U.S. families appeal to European Court over adoption law; organised crime crackdown. The preliminary hearing in the posthumous trial of Sergei Magnitsky, which [...]

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RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Dec 18, 2012

By Citizen M | Published: December 18, 2012

TODAY: New rights council unveiled, plans to lobby Western governments; Pussy Riot member offers insight into jail; Potanin named CEO of Norlisk as Abramovich intervention calls time on dispute. 2011 capital flight figures revised; arms sales boom. Amnesty decries gay propaganda law; state duma will consider banning U.S. adoptions of Russian children. Russia has a [...]

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