The Washington Post reviews a Russain Army conscript’s new book: In One Soldier’s War, his memoir of Russian army life, Arkady Babchenko confirms that this kind of sale was rife. He describes how two new recruits were beaten, tortured ...
The decision this week from a Dutch court ordering $850 million in compensation to be paid to Yukos shareholders is just the latest in growing string of legal victories against the Kremlin – bringing not only optimism but also concern of the...
A word in defense of Russia’s Minister of Defense By Grigory Pasko, journalist In these days in Moscow and a bit in Russia on the pages of the mass information media, they’re discussing the interview of «the elected president» (that’s what they’re...
Recently Robert Amsterdam blogged about the corporate foreign policy implications of TNK-BP’s latest snafu – that perhaps in exchange for relieve from the state’s bureaucratic attack, that the Kremlin would ask BP to perform some...
Interesting news coming out of Russia today on the 2006 murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya – the authorities have announced that they have identified the trigger man and are in the process of hunting him down for arrest … the only...
A Russian court has frozen the sale of shares in power producer TGK-11 as part of a second lawsuit filed by a Rosneft subsidiary. More than 100 miners who spent the night 700 meters underground in a Sverdlovsk region bauxite mine have refused to r...
An Orthodox business has suggested building “collapsible light churches” in order to fulfillthe goal of having one church for every thousand Orthodox believers. British supermarket chain Tesco plans to open its first Russian stores. Russia’s...
TODAY: US and Russian press respond differently to missile talks. NATO ambassadors say Russia should not fear the alliance. Abramovich to build Channel Tunnel-style link between Russia and America? Court witness accuses Khodorkovsky of murder. Sch...
[Editor: This week our correspondent in Russia, Grigory Pasko, published two interviews with a leading psychiatric expert in Russia about the state’s forced confinement of several political dissidents. The following is an afterword Grigory w...
Following the path of Alexander Radishchev (unlike Grigory Pasko’s journeys in the footsteps of Venedikt Erofeyev), a senior editor from Time Magazine sets out in a Lada hatchback with a non-drinking driver to see the “real Russia̶...
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