Back in March, we alerted our blog readers to the following documentary which featured an interview with Anna Politkovskaya. Unfortunately I can’t embed the video on the blog, so just click here to view it. Although the film dates to 2005, i...
In honor of Anna Politkovskaya, who was brutally murdered one year ago today, we are posting the following excerpt of Scott Simon’s foreword from her posthumous collection of writings, “A Russian Diary: A Journalist’s Account of ...
The Absurd and its Theater Grigory Pasko, journalist A couple of months ago, when I was filling in my visa application at the Australian embassy, I honestly wrote that I had had a criminal conviction. The embassy employees asked me to provide an o...
Soon Fradkov will be listening to entirely different translations “When a person insists on doing things in a way so that no one can understand anything until the last minute – why spend time on imitating analysis?” – Fyodo...
Below is a ten-minute news video from Al Jazeera English on the latest Putin-Parliament news. Recommended viewing for all the interesting archival photographs of the president. Includes interviews with Alexander Pikaev, Pavel Felgenhauer, and Mark...
Photo: AFP Stay tuned to this blog on Sunday, October 7 for a series of commemorative posts dedicated to slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya on the anniversary of her tragic death. We’ll have some new articles, excerpts from books, p...
After complimenting Russia’s strong economic growth, the International Monetary Fund got down to business in statements made today: The IMF warned of the need to control government spending, saying it ‘would increase pressures for real...
From Courrier International, quoting die tageszeitung: Last week Russian President Vladimir Putin declared his intention of remaining active in politics after the next election. In an interview with Klaus-Helge Donath, the popular Russian satirist...
Members of pro-Kremlin youth organisations rally near cardboard cut-outs of President Putin and United Russia party leader Boris Gryzlov. (Photo: Reuters) Putin’s decision to head the pro-Kremlin Unified Russia party’s list of candidates for...
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