Below are the first two parts of the compelling documentary by British station Channel Four, investigating the death of Anna Politkovskaya. CHANNEL4: MURDERING THE TRUTH IN RUSSIA 1 OF 3Uploaded by Top-Notch112 CHANNEL4: MURDERING THE TRUTH IN RUS...
I apologize for my relative absence from the blog over the past couple of days. I have just come to the end of an extremely busy week in Europe, where there has been a noticeable groundswell of support on several of the issues I advocate for in Ru...
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and his Portuguese counterpart Anibal Cavaco Silva look at the Hermitage collection of the Russian Empire at the Ajuda palace in Lisbon October 25, 2007. REUTERS/Andre Kosters/Pool (PORTUGAL) The Kremlin is ...
The full text of the European Court of Human Rights judgment on case Lebedev vs. Russia (Application no. 4493/04) can be downloaded here. Courtroom sketch of Platon Lebedev by Pavel Shevelev
Earlier today the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg issued a ruling which found that the Russian government had violated the rights of a Yukos manager on five counts. Below is a statement from Platon Lebedev’s Defense Team: It is ...
Robert Amsterdam was interviewed today for a short radio segment on Marketplace Morning Report for National Public Radio. The report was entitled “Working in Russia is risky business,” and coincides with the fourth anniversary of Mikha...
Today our translator in Germany has provided us with another exclusive English translation of an interesting article from the newspaper Die Welt, which argues that autocrats stick up for other autocrats as a means of survival, among other insights...
Breaking news: Lawyers for Platon Lebedev, a former Yukos manager and business partner of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, have announced that the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has ruled in their favor, finding that Russia had violated his rig...
Stanley A Weiss, founding chairman of Business Executives for National Security, writes about how the United States and Russia can make the most of its less-than-perfect relationship: Going forward, Moscow and Washington should remember that, in m...
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