In Russia a good journalist – is a dead journalist? Grigory Pasko, journalist What happened? The editor-in-chief of the newspaper “Khimkinskaya Pravda” (the city of Khimki is pressed right against Moscow), Mikhail Beketov, was fo...
This blog has reported both on the state’s war on lawyers as well as its campaign against Hermitage Capital and its found William Browder, following a corporate raiding and identity theft scandal tied to the Interior Ministry. Today, t...
In case you ever wondered what there was to see in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad: This is what passes for humor in Kaliningrad these days: Iskander missile tourism. Dipping deep into his reservoir of black humor, Vladimir Abramov tries out th...
From Yevgeny Kiselyov in the Moscow Times: It seemed at first that our prayers were answered when Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary in 1985. Those hopes came crashing down, however, when the price of oil dropped several years later. Despi...
British Labour MP Denis MacShane writes in the Financial Times about the interesting swing taking place in today’s Europe whereby political parties of the centre-right, once known for their tough line on Russia, have become the prime apologi...
A short while back I published an interview with Fredo Arias-King, in which we reviewed Russia’s brief flirtation with lustration law – a debate which at the time tapped into that difficult area of the politics of memory. The lus...
Falling oil prices may pose a challenge to the unity of OPEC, which is ‘increasingly torn between its moderate members, led by Saudi Arabia, which can afford a period of lower oil prices, and countries with high government spending‘.&n...
The deputy head of the Federal Labor and Employment Service says Russian companies will cut 200,000 jobs over the next two months. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has spoken in favor of upholding anti-monopoly laws to protect businesses from b...
TODAY: Medvedev calls for BRIC summit; presidential term amendment approved; Politkovskaya judge to stay; the Kremlin’s sway over history; Rogozin slams US over NATO fast-track suggestion. Dmitry Medvedev’s high profile trip to Latin A...
The never-boring Vladimir Zhirinovsky has some innovative suggestions for Russian citizens economically struggling under the recession – stop shaving, getting haircuts, or using soaps and deodorants – because that’s what he does ...
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