Thanks to Russia’s new broad and flexible extremism legislation, just about anyone who inconveniences the government can face arrest. Such a wide definition of extremism allows the Kremlin to use this legislation to punish and threaten its c...
From the Wall Street Journal’s featured weekend interview with the President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili: At one point I ask him if security and dealing with Russian threats are a top priority. “We have two limbs of Georgia which a...
From this week’s Economist, “The Making of a Neo-KGB State“: Many officers of the active reserve have been seconded to Russia’s big companies, both private and state-controlled, where they draw a salary while also remaining...
One would think that Germany’s easy acquiescence to Kremlin policy and its cozy energy relations with Russian state-owned enterprises would earn it a special preferential status in Moscow – excluded from the energy supply cut offs that...
A Journey from Moscow to St. Petersburg – Part 1 By Grigory Pasko, journalist Chudishche oblo, ozorno, stozevno i layay. Such was the epigraph of Alexander Radishchev, who in the year 1790 wrote his “Journey from Petersburg to Moscow”. If we...
Today Amnesty International has published “new” photographic evidence that they claim proves that Russia is violating the UN arms embargo on the Sudan, and continuing the flow of weapons to feed the genocide in Darfur. The photos were ...
Robert Amsterdam, quoted by the Associated Press on the precedent-setting ruling from Switzerland in the Khodorkovsky case: Khodorkovsky lawyer says Swiss court decision shows Yukos cases illegitimate MOSCOW: A lawyer for Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the...
Below is an exclusive translation of an article from the French newspaper La Croix about the overtly political maneuvers behind the Khodorkovsky affair. The Russian state completes the dismantling of Yukos The break-up of the Russian energy giant ...
FOR MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA, REQUEST CONFERENCE CALL-IN INFO HERE. Landmark decision: Swiss Supreme Court Denies Russian Request for Assistance in the Khodorkovsky/Yukos Case Philippe Neyroud, senior partner in the Geneva law firm Poncet, Turrenttini...
Extremely important news from the Associated Press: Swiss supreme court halts hand-over of Yukos files to Russia The Associated Press Published: August 23, 2007 BERN, Switzerland: Switzerland’s supreme court has forbidden the transfer of ban...
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