The New Year By Grigory Pasko, journalist 2008 – the Year of the Yellow (Golden) Rat – will be met by many political prisoners of contemporary Russia in “red” colonies, that is ones that are not under control of the law, but rather the arbitrary t...
Is the world facing an energy crisis? Not according to Pierre Noël, of Cambridge University and the European Council on Foreign Relations in a new article for the FT, who argues that we must abandon the ridiculous notion of energy independence and...
Both Deutsche Welle and Other Russia are reporting on the launch of a new content-rich web portal organized by the Russian opposition to document political repression: www.hroniki.info. According to OR: “The main goal of the web page is to c...
A reader has kindly pointed us toward a great article this week by Denis MacShane in the Spectator, which takes a look at the “shabby alliance” formed between Russia and Britain’s Conservatives, based largely on the latter’...
Have you noticed the drought in news out of Russia over the past few weeks? According to a report in the Moscow Times, economists estimate that the extended holiday break has cost the economy 700 billion rubles ($28.5 billion), or about 2 percent ...
An important new alert from the Committee to Protect Journalists: Station faces criminal charges for slang use of Putin’s name New York, January 10, 2008—Prosecutors in the northeastern Russian city of Vladimir have opened a criminal case ag...
Today: Poland is looking more flexible on the missile defense shield, Moscow bans cigarette advertisements, a wealthy Georgian opposition leader is charged with terrorism, Serbia is warned over a Russian energy siege, and a big hockey fight. Press...
It must get difficult to constantly think of new ways for Russia to demonstrate its new strength and independence internationally – one can run out of noses to thumb. As noted in today’s news blast, the latest gesture sure to test the ...
After we posted his recent series of articles about punitive psychiatry in Yaroslavl Oblast, Grigory Pasko received the following from a resident of Rybinsk who has been following the Novikov case closely and wanted to share his own thoughts on th...
In the past we have blogged about Gazprom’s hostile offer to take control of Serbia’s national energy company, which is in an especially weak position given the country’s reliance on Russian support against Kosovo’s indepen...
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