I think that Human Rights Watch gets some points for innovation today. In preparing their 2008 World Report, instead of carrying out the same old tired exercise of denouncing the atrocious human rights abuses perpetrated by this and that misbehavi...
Roger Cohen writes about why so many foreign countries are so thrilled by the U.S. primary elections campaigns, taking a quick shot at Russia: “Why, it’s fair to ask, should a fading imperium — or so the conventional wisdom has it from Davos...
The FT weighs in on those unprecedented comments from Anatoly Chubais and Alexei Kudrin criticizing Russia’s aggressive foreign policy moves of late: “The remarks show that while the Kremlin has consolidated its power under President V...
Over the past week I have been on a brief tour of my home country Canada, for a series of meetings, interviews, and speaking engagements (in fact I will be appearing before the Economic Club of Toronto in just a few short hours). Meanwhile back in...
Below is a translation of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s second statement on his announced hunger strike in support of former Yukos general counsel Vasily Alexanyan, who is being denied urgent medical treatment while being held in pre-trial detentio...
Viktor Zubkov and Vladimir Putin are both being reported as likely to succeed Dmitry Medvedev’s role as chairman of Gazprom, a company “regularly referred to as Kremlin Inc.” ArcelorMittal, the world’s biggest steelmaker, has agreed to buy t...
Although he praised Russia’s economic development, Former US Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan said that the double-digit inflation rate was hurting Russia’s economy. UBS Securities is preparing to offer stocks of its investment funds to ...
TODAY: New OSCE spats for March presidential election, and Putin orders FSB to prevent external meddling. Kudrin criticizes Russia’s foreign policy. Putin and Medvedev call for environmental improvements. Khodorkovsky stars hunger strike. The Orga...
In a rare disagreement with the president, two liberal members of the Russian government issued warnings to the hawks that Russia’s hard line foreign policy could damage foreign investment and business. In an article running in tomorrow̵...
In this edition of Grigory Pasko’s Faces of the Opposition video series, he speaks with Olga Kurnosova, a St. Petersburg representative of Other Russia. See other video interviews from this series on our YouTube channel.
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