Earlier today we were emailed regarding a small demonstration to be held tomorrow morning in front of the Drake Hotel in Chicago, IL in support of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, coinciding with the Russian National Exhibition (a business conference looking...
We could’ve guessed from the letter he signed earlier this year that the Czech luminary/dissident Vaclav Havel was not done talking about the authoritarian drift in Russia. The Telegraph reports on his speech before a rally commemorati...
Throughout the day new reports have been published on the death of Sergey Magnitskiy, the imprisoned Russian lawyer who had worked for William Browder and Hermitage Capital Management. Some interesting quotes have come up so far, like this o...
Adrian Pabst, an academic from the University of Kent, has a well written if not entirely surprising opinion article in The National arguing that a real separation emerging between the Medvedev and Putin camps – “a growing split within...
You’ve got to respect Global Witness … for a watchdog NGO, they bring a lot of creativity and innovation to their cause (see this past campaign for another example). GW has also done a tremendous job in the past unearthing all th...
Ivan Khutorskoy, an anti-fascist activist, has been murdered by gunfire in Moscow today in what some colleagues are calling a possible retaliation. According to the Reuters coverage, the murder may have been related to the arrests of individ...
Looks like we’re not done having fun with this one yet. From the Associated Press: Putin did not technically rap — but he did deliver his speech clutching a mike to the backdrop of a hip hop groove. He clapped his hands while lis...
The following is a press release being sent around by Hermitage Capital Management with regard to the death last night of Sergei Magnitsky. The link to the 40-page complaint by Magnitsky to Chief Prosecutor Yuri Chaika detailing the urgent c...
I am not sure how much longer the Browder film will be available online, given that one individual featured in it has died (I have seen it pulled from some sites). Anyways, if you haven’t seen it yet, today is the day if you would like...
This is horrible, horrible news, especially considering the circumstances behind the arrest of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer involved in the William Browder and Hermitage Capital affair (this saga of state corruption is best told in a ten minute film...
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