Fed up with excessive and often imprecise criticism of Russia on democracy and human rights, President Vladimir Putin announced that he is setting up an NGO in the heart of Europe to monitor them on rights and civil society issues. Sergei Markov t...
Why would Germany and Russia want to pay twice the cost to route the Nord Stream gas pipeline underwater rather than overland? Politics, of course. A few weeks after Estonia denied Russia the right to surveys in Estonian waters for the pipeline pr...
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is reflected on a glass panel at the Lisbon Oceanareum during his visit October 26, 2007. REUTERS/Pedro Santa Barbara/Lisbon Oceanarium The Central Election Commission has completed the registration of feder...
Tonight the Association of Art in Support of Civil Liberties of Paris is hosting what promises to be a wonderful performance of works by Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, Schnittke, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and others interpreted by Aurélien Pontier (piano)...
In Shankar Vedantam’s column in the Washington Post today, he opens up a discussion of how the U.S. effort to build democracy in Iraq has been fundamentally flawed for its failure to engage the dynamic of social capital, and harness the cohe...
Kim Zigfeld has a column up on Pajamas Media exploring the issue of Mikhail Khodorkovsky as a political prisoner – taking the discussion beyond the lawyer arguments commonly found on this blog: Allegations that the Kremlin jailed Khodorokovs...
Remember back when a group of artists demanded that Putin remain in office, claiming to represent the entire cultural community? Here comes the blowback. Echo Moskvy, the last free voice on Russia’s airwaves, reported the following at 22:03 on 25 ...
Please visit the new website of the Committee to Free Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, where you can express your support by signing an open letter, see a video and other multimedia, and leave a message.
This week we interviewed Craig Pirrong for his perspective on Russia’s decision to freeze food prices until after the elections. The new Economist is carrying an article on the news as well: According to a recent poll, almost half of Russia&...
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