Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, held a press conference today to announce that the Russian government’s efforts to defend freedom of the press fell far short of their commitments. His report, which can be do...
[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...
In his speech yesterday before his cabinet, Vladimir Putin expressed a surprising amount of reticence that now that one campaign is over, another is beginning: It is a pity, of course, that we have one election campaign coming straight after anoth...
Here’s a video clip of some apparent ballot stuffing under pressure in Russia from smena.info. If anyone knows more about this, or if it is just a hoax, let us know. UPDATE: Dutch journalist and blogger Remco Reiding has provided additional ...
Andrei Illarionov, a former top economic adviser to Vladimir Putin, recently penned a column in Yezhednevniy Zhurnal entitled “The Beginnings of a Catastrophe.” Below, a translation provided by La Russophobe: The Beginnings of a Catast...
Supporters of the pro-Kremlin Young Russia movement hold pictures of opposition leaders inside a makeshift pigsty in central Moscow supposed to represent mercenary politicians serving US national interests, 03 December 2007. (AFP/Dmitry Kostyukov)...
Vote and dance – thinking is optional, part 2 The elections in the Russian backwoods Grigory Pasko, journalist The time was 10:00 AM. People weren’t exactly arriving in droves: by 10 in the morning, 15 people had voted out of the 446 voters assign...
A few weeks ago my blog offered a Kremlin insider’s account of the spy wars and the campaign against Sergei Storchak and Alexei Kudrin. Our contributor, who must remain anonymous for clear reasons, has again sent in the following excellent d...
Opposition leaders like Garry Kasparov drew a big cross on their ballot papers during the State Duma elections on December 2nd, 2007- their verdict on what they call a rigged election. (AFP/BBC) It has been recorded that United Russia has received...
An op/ed in the Times of London argues that Putin is in danger of believing his own publicity: If he is sincere in ruling out the constitutional amendment that would allow him a third term, he has two options: to install a puppet such as his curre...
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