On 15 May 2007, the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize organizational committee in the northern German city of Osnabrück officially announced that it was awarding its 2007 prize to the highly regarded British historian Tony Judt, and a special prize...
The White Paper is now available in Japanese. Download here, or click the title of the document. ロシア連邦における国家権力濫用に関する白書 ミハイル・ホドルコフスキーに対する政治的動機に基づく起訴 エグゼクティブ･サマリー【要旨】 2003年春、プーチン...
My friend and colleague Karinna Moskalenko, one of Russia’s greatest human rights lawyers, is featured in an extensive Washington Post article today, detailing her efforts to fend off the politically motivated campaign to disbar her and prev...
Columbia Visiting Scholar Vasili Rukhadze has done a fascinating blog post on Russia’s geopolitical ambitions in Central Asia, concentrating not on the threat to Western interests as so many think tanks have done, but rather focusing on the ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a press conference at Sennigen’s Castle, during an official visit to Luxembourg (AFP) From the IHT: But something more fundamental has changed in Putin’s Russia, which the Europeans have yet to gr...
Below is an interesting comment from the analysts at Breakingviews, who ask if Gazprom is really capable of handling the operational and financial challenges of their ill-gotten new energy assets. In related news, Gazprom’s board just approv...
Thanks to Russia’s new, flexible definition of “extremist” activity, criminal charges can be brought against anyone who offends the “national dignity” or commits “public slander of a state official.” The l...
[I am pleased to announce a special guest column from the political analyst and Trinity College Scholar Michael Alguire, who recently completed a Specialist Program in History at the University of Toronto. In this highly detailed and rigorously re...
In search of a modern-day Potemkin village OR How Putin went to the countryside… By Grigory Pasko, journalist The man whom I hired to drive me around Samara turned out to be a policeman. He told me the following story. Vladimir Putin visited Samar...
Below is a 45-minute documentary on Russia’s demographic crisis aired on Britain’s Channel 4 titled “Death of a Nation.” (hat tip to LR and an anonymous commenter for the links).
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