Here is an exclusive translation from Novaya Gazeta about the youth activist Oleg Kozlovsky. Below the article is a translation of a letter from Russia’s Ministry of Defense to Kozlovsky’s mother. Oleg Kozlovsky turns in documents on h...
Move over UK and Russia, the new East vs. West diplomatic battle royale is now going down between Washington and Minsk. Today Reuters is reporting that U.S. Ambassador Karen Stewart (pictured) has been temporarily withdrawn to Washington following...
Yesterday the U.S. State Department released its 2007 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. Below is just an excerpt regarding Mikhail Khodorkovsky and others – the complete report can be found here. Political Prisoners and Detainees Hu...
A report by Russian brokerage UralSib says Russian energy exports are close to reaching a milestone $1 billion per day value mark. Gazprom, KazMunayGaz, Uzbekneftegaz and Turkmengaz officially declared their 2009 transfer to European prices for Ce...
The government has drawn up rules for foreign investors that will allow them access, under certain conditions, to large deposits of oil, gas, copper and gold. Russia insists it has the financial strength to control borrowing by its firms abroad af...
TODAY: US State Department condemns Russia’s government accountability. Putin talks with Yavlinsky. Carbomb threat outside Federal Security Service. Anti-inflation bill could fail. Russian farmland going to waste. President Vladimir Putin has held...
Sometimes you MUST look a gift horse in the mouth… Commentary by Grigory Pasko, journalist On 8 March at a press conference on the occasion of a meeting with Bundeskanzler Angela Merkel, as is known, Putin did not respond to the question of whethe...
The following is an exclusive translation from Kommersant. An exclusive interview by Grigory Pasko with Mr. Kozlovsky is coming up later this week. “Oborona” demobbed Oppositioneer Oleg Kozlovsky returns from the army after two months ...
Remember the leaked Yekaterinburg video of prison torture? A whistleblower initially leaked the a copy of the tape to human rights activist Lev Ponomarev, who then provided it to us … and from there everything took off. Well apparently the F...
Many of Gazprom’s arguments and excuses that they should be the monopoly exporter of Central Asian natural gas to Europe has depended upon the low prices they have been able to secure. Europe should not worry about this, they argue, while at...
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