Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s brief but successful hunger strike this week was based upon an unusual request: he was seeking confirmation that President Dmitry Medvedev was aware that Russian courts are disobeying a law Medvedev himself had r...
(The following article was written before Mikhail Khodorkovsky had concluded his hunger strike following a successful result. – Editor) Mikhail Khodorkovsky has declared a hunger strike of indefinite duration. About this became known from a ...
We all know that Russia has a reputation for being an expert in cybercrime, from everyday garden variety piracy through to high-level cyberattacks (about which, according to recent reports, NATO should be concerned). In Forbes today, Andy Gr...
Russia and China are on board, but will the rest of the UN Security Council back sanctions against Iran? ‘The only country capable of stopping Iran is Iran’ argues this article in the New York Times. Brazil and Turkey have ...
According to the Moscow Times, Medvedev-approved legislation preventing the arrests of businessmen may not actually assist them, as courts are refusing to acknowledge that some suspects were engaged in entrepreneurial activity. The U.S. Depa...
Julian Borger’s global security blog today looked at how the Turkey-Brazil fuel swap deal with Iran was squashed with little ado by Hillary Clinton and the P5, and new sanctions agreed upon with suprising alacrity on the part of China and Ru...
Another mining accident has occurred in the same region where up to 90 miners perished last weekend; this time two workers from the Aleskeyevskaya coal mine remain missing. Yulia Latynina commented both acerbically and astutely in today̵...
There was a rather eyebrow-raising article today for those of us who have spent the past eight years haunted by the images of kneeling orange-hooded men in the maze of barbed wire that is the notorious Guantanomo Bay detention center. Accord...
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