It’s just like a replay of last April, but perhaps even worse. According to some reports, more than 3,000 people marched in Moscow today against Putin – a protest which was quickly and in some cases violently suppressed by police. Garr...
[Also see the first installment of this series] Part 2: Special Operation «Olympiad» By Grigory Pasko, journalist The Imereti Valley President of Russia Putin, who had so confidently presented «project Sochi» to the International Olympic Committee...
There’s a new test for Russia’s famous axiom, “What Gazprom wants, Gazprom gets.” The answer from the embattled LSE-listed oil company Imperial Energy: not so fast. On Friday the company rejected a bid from Gazprombank to a...
Sergei Lukashevsky from Demos tells a reporter: “A bureaucratic machine has been unleashed and it strangles everyone, starting with the weaker ones. … I do not believe that the powers that have a desire to stamp out civil society as su...
PINR has a new defense briefing analyzing Russia’s recent increases in military activity: One theme that seems to tie together much of Russia’s policies and actions is also involved in the renewal of bomber runs and the new technologic...
Residents of Manturovo settlement listen to Andrei Lugovoy, a former KGB officer named as a suspect in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in London last year, during their meeting in the southwestern Russian Kursk region November 22, 2007. The mee...
This sounds quite familiar. If anyone has further details, please let us know. Telegraph: Russia expels British human rights lawyer A British human rights barrister has been expelled from Russia for visiting the country on the wrong type of visa. ...
For all the quiet murmurings of disapproval in Europe following the interference and eventual undermining of the OSCE’s election monitoring mission, it looks like the Kremlin has yet again escaped from the scene of the crime, squeaky clean. The el...
In tomorrow’s Financial Times, Philip Stephens has an intelligent article examining President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to rebuild Russia’s influence in its near abroad: Russia cannot reclaim the Soviet empire. It can, in Mr Putin...
There’s another Vladimir Putin running in the Dec. 2 parliamentary elections, and this one is a rather unknown lawyer in Stavropol running under the Yabloko ticket. An amusing story from Christian Lowe at Reuters: “Vladimir Putin would...
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