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September 25, 2007

Yuri Schmidt Interview in El Pais

Yuri Schmidt, Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s lead lawyer in Russia, was featured in an extensive profile interview in Spain’s largest circulation newspaper, El Pais, on August 13, 2007. Below is an exclusive English translation of the intervie...
September 25, 2007

Photo Gallery: Grigory Pasko Awarded Remarque Peace Prize

I’m pleased to express my warmest congratulations to my friend and colleague, Grigory Pasko, who was awarded the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Special Prize 2007 on Friday in Osnabrück, Germany, birthplace of the famous anti-war author of ̶...
September 25, 2007

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Sept. 25, 2007

Russia’s newly appointed Health Minister Tatiyana Golikova, left, and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, right, are seen at a Cabinet meeting in Moscow, Monday, Sept. 24, 2007. (Photo: AP) President Vladimir Putin’s new cabinet has finall...
September 24, 2007

The Sounds of Boots Marching in Step

The blog Darkness at Noon has been resurrected from its hiatus with an interesting post responding to today’s news that the Nashi youth brigades will be deployed on city streets across Russia to crack down on any anti-government protests dur...
September 24, 2007

New Yorker: Kasparov vs. Putin

Below are some excerpts from David Remnick’s extensive profile article of Garry Kasparov from the latest issue of the New Yorker (the full text of the article is available online for the time being). Remnick, the editor of the New Yorker, wa...
September 24, 2007

Russia Makes a New Aeronautical Bid with the Sukhoi Superjet

While still well below the scale of Airbus or Boeing, Russia took a big step forward today in its quest to revive its position in the aeronautical industry with the roll out of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 – a 78 to 98 seat regional airliner desi...
September 24, 2007

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Sept. 24, 2007

Russia’s team waves to the crowd during the rope medal ceremony of the group apparatus final at the 28th Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in the city of Patras, southern Greece, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2007. (Photo: AP) There has been a del...
September 24, 2007

Where’s My Kalashnikov?

From a long feature article on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez: The tinted window rolls down at a military checkpoint, and startled troops snap to attention when they see their president at the wheel. “Fatherland, socialism – or death...
September 24, 2007

Lithuania Finds Yukos Case Politically Motivated

From a RIA Novosti report on Lithuania’s refusal to extradite a former Yukos shareholder to Russia: “Upon analyzing the materials on the Yukos case, we have concluded that this case is politicized and Mikhail Brudno has been persecuted...