From the Washington Post: Anti-American rhetoric has become a staple of Kremlin-controlled television and many Russian political speeches, a reflection according to analysts of both genuine grievances and a desire to assert Russia’s revival ...
Lev Ponomarev has sent us the attached open letter he has signed, along with more than 20 other prestigious human rights and civil society leaders (including Elena Bonner, the widow of Andrei Sakharov), urging the leadership of the G7 to ask Russi...
For those already exhausted with the cloak-and-dagger spy-murder mystery plots currently unfolding between London and Moscow, it seems that a fresh new controversy has hit the pages of the tabloids: Russia claims to have uncovered a sinister Weste...
Turkmenistan has been the most popular Central Asian country in the news lately, what with Russia’s continued energy imperialism in the Baltics, Gazprom’s bruising attack on BP at Kovykta, and the Kremlin’s seemingly limitless su...
In a surprising gesture of support for free press, the normally pliant Mikhail Gorbachev hosted the launch of a new posthumous book of Anna Politkovskaya’s writings in Moscow to coincide with the summit of the International Federation of Jou...
In case you weren’t aware, this week Moscow has been experiencing a record heat wave, with temperatures soaring to 32.1 C (close to 90 F). These surprisingly high temperatures have sent droves of people to seek relief in city fountains, pond...
New survey data released last week from the Public Opinion Foundation shows that the majority of Russians do not believe that elections are an accurate reflection of public opinion. Only 7% of those polled believed that the upcoming Parliamentary ...
Yesterday a local court in Beslan, Russia, granted amnesty to three policemen who had stood trial for criminal negligence in their handling of the 2004 school hostage crisis, opening up old wounds of what is indisputably the most reprehensible ter...
Russia: Fools and Roads, Part II By Grigory Pasko, journalist [Editor note: As mentioned earlier, our regular contributor Grigory Pasko actually managed to get into the city of Samara during the recent EU-Russia summit held there, and has already ...
Today I have the honor of giving a talk at Stanford Law School’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. If any of my blog readers are in the Bay Area, I invite you to come out and see the speech (sorry for the late notice). Th...
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