TODAY: Canada mulls sanctions on Magnitsky suspects; Mironov defends direct elections; Medvedev praises the economic advantages of democracy. Outcry over Kashin beating continues; journalist to face slander charges; Russia, nation of smokers The U...
In August of this year, President Dmitry Medvedev sent into retirement the chiefs of the main administrations of the FSIN [the Federal Service for the Execution of Punishments, formerly known as GULag, the agency responsible for running the prison...
Academic and author Stephen F. Cohen speaks with Mark Guiducci of Vanity Fair about his new book on the survivors of Russia’s gulags. Apart from describing his fascinating encounters with his KGB handlers during the research for this b...
The Moscow Times reports that the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service has opened investigations into several business for the “unlawful” use of English words in its advertising and signage: The companies targeted include Yaposhka-City, which...
The Moscow Times has an unnerving report on how nuclear material is being smuggled through cigarette packets in the Caucasus. Gazprom has defied negative forecasts for its second quarter, with a slightly smaller drop in profit than imagined....
The US’ Foreign Corrupt Practices Act has once again turned its attention to Russia with Swiss logistics company Panalpina accused of paying $7 million in bribes to officials between 2002 and 2007. Clifford J Levy reports on the econom...
TODAY: Shocked reactions to Kashin beating pour in as CCTV footage circulates; second journalist attacked; Medvedev vows to find perpetrators. Moscow authorities refuse to sanction Day of Wrath protest; further blow for opposition parties. N...
Charles Glover of the Financial Times on the near-fatal beating of journalist Oleg Kashin. Irina Petrovskaya, a prominent commentator, said: “We all know only too well how such loud and resonant cases like the murder or attempted murder of a...
At the trial of the former owners of the Russian oil company YUKOS the procurators – the party of the state prosecution have completed their appearances in the final submissions. That is, the decreeing of the verdict of the judges of the Kha...
Sure, this is not a criminal state. A not-so-subtle threat from the FSB following the announcement that the Wikileaks website would publish a number of scandalous documents relating to corruption within the Russian government. From TIME: So ...
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