Month: December 2007

December 1, 2007

Faces of the Opposition: Lyudmila Alexeyeva, part 2

The next installment of Grigory Pasko’s Faces of the Opposition interview series features Lyudmila Alexeyeva talking about the various indications that Russia is headed toward becoming a police state. See the first Alexeyeva interview here, ...
December 1, 2007

Nemstov: Khodorkovsky was Putin’s Turning Point

An important quote from Jane Armstrong’s dispatch from Moscow in the Globe and Mail: Presidential candidate Boris Nemstov remembers the exact day Mr. Putin abandoned all pretense of being a democrat. It was Oct. 23, 2003, when police arreste...