Newsweek writes about Viktor Cherkesov, Igor Sechin, and all the fighting going on in Vladimir Putin’s inner circle: Putin needs a new political niche. One possibility: leader of the United Russia Party, whose candidate list he headed in thi...
Their Name is Legion (or How awards lose their value) By Grigory Pasko, journalist Don’t tell me you’re still not a Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honor! Lately I’ve been getting the impression that they seem to be giving it out to just abou...
Eldad Tamir of the Israeli financial group Tamir Fishman was one of the first foreign investors to announce his withdrawl from a major deal in Russia following the “velvet reprivatization” interview with Oleg Shvartsman. VentureBeat ha...
Online journalist Andrei Novikov of Chechenpress was arrested on Dec. 5, 2006 on charges of “publicly inciting constitutional change by means of force”, which carries a sentence of three years. Novikov was subsequently committed to a p...
I’m very concerned for the staff at the BBC in Moscow, who have experienced a spate of individual violent attacks outside of work in recent weeks. First native Russian reporter Davlat Qudrat was assaulted on the Moscow metro after work, and ...
Proposition: Is the internet a positive force for democratisation? Opposition: Or is it simply another platform instrumentalised by its detractors? Robert Amsterdam participated in an Oxford-style debate on the subject last May, advocating the opp...
In the 1967 popular American film “Cool Hand Luke,” the prison guard captain threatens the incorrigible prisoner played by Paul Newman, telling him that he’s got to “get his mind right.” By “right”, of cou...
[Our correspondent in Russia recently discovered that the border town of Vyborg near St. Petersburg was going to hold discreet (practically secret) public hearings on Gazprom’s mega-project, the Nord Stream pipeline, to discuss the social an...
We were surprised to see a tremendous amount of interest in our recent post about the acquisition of LiveJournal, the most popular blogging platform in Russia, by a Kremlin loyalist. While we focused on the privacy and censorship concerns posed by...
In yesterday’s WSJ, Michael McFaul writes about Putin’s plan: “The weakening of these three political institutions follows a strategy of deinstitutionalization that Vladimir Putin has implemented since the very beginning of his p...
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