TODAY: 1998 Starovoitova murder case to be reopened; Moscow city Duma election opposition candidates outraged; Nashi vs Nemtsov thrown out of court. Lavrov positive on reset; new police chief; Moscow mayor to fight weather. According to Bloo...
Andrew Wilson of the European Council on Foreign Relations has a piece on Transitions Online which takes a look at some opinions of Gleb Pavlovsky and Yevgeny Gontmahker to debate what the Pikalyovo incident did and did not teach us about politics...
In this article on openDemocracy.net, Vlad Tupikin exposes the case of Alexei Bychin, whose treatment by the Russian police may reveal a bias in the state’s handling of neo-nazi and anti-fascist youth movements. At the beginning of the white...
This column in the Moscow Times argues that the Stalinist renovation of the Kurskaya metro station is an elections ploy by United Russia to win the votes of the elderly. Interestingly, the author Sergei Obukhov, a duma member from the Commun...
Joshua Foust at Registan.net has a piece up about the swift show trial conviction of Yevgeny Zhovtis, which has decidedly changed his mind about the OSCE Chairmanship being given to Kazakhstan. While Zhovtis is only one guy, the pattern of harassi...
[Again, my apologies for the late posting of this news blast, as I’m covering all the bases on my own today… – Best, James] TODAY: The United States sells even more arms during a recession, Gorbachev’s towering ego, m...
An interesting detail picked up by the Financial Times: It’s hard to get a straight answer in Moscow about exactly whose idea it was. Vladimir Putin, Russia’s prime minister, attended a meeting of world leaders in Poland last week, com...
Simon Owens at Bloggasm just emailed us with the news that Gawker is planning on publishing a Russian translation of the disputed Scott Anderson article from GQ. It looks like they are doing it through Google translator, which means that mor...
Richard Sakwa, a professor at Kent University and a fellow at Chatham House, has a new interview with RIA Novosti. Sakwa recent published a book on the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Yukos. “Russia historically has had a problematica...
Related to the post below, here is the audio. My guess is that GQ will probably publish the full text of Anderson’s article online to save face in, oh, about six hours or so.
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