For our second installment of Zek Week, we are featuring an extended statement from Lev Ponomarev last year on the resignation of Russia’s prisons czar Yuri Kalinin and how his administration allowed for the establishment of so-called “...
The Times has an interesting story today on Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, the American cardiologist that Boris Yeltsin called in for a consultation, who made the decision that the Russian president could indeed survive a by-pass operation. His Russian d...
The diplomatic hyperbole coming out of Russia over the past few months is beginning to produce the opposite effect than was intended by Moscow. Instead of dividing Europe and driving a wedge between the United States and the EU, it seems that the ...
Tanya Lokshina, who heads up the Russian human rights think tank Demos, has an important piece on the new Russian dissidents on Open Democracy. She writes about the Soviet dissenter Boris Shragin, who once wrote that a small group of protestors ha...
Most of the attention given to the Sakhalin heist, the event which brought the full weight of the environmental regulatory agency of the Russian state to bear upon foreign investors to exact concessions for state-held firms, concentrated on the Kr...
Russia is not afraid to use its weapons of mass distraction From President Putin’s speech to the Federal Assembly last Thursday: There has been an increasing influx of money from abroad being used to intervene directly in our internal affair...
Although this book review of Andrei Piontkovsky‘s “Another Look into Putin’s Soul” is about a month old, it still makes for good reading as a follow up to the Federal Assembly speech. The author of the review, esteemed form...
[Below is a translation of an article written by Russian human rights defender Lev Ponomarev as part of our special Zek Week series on Russia’s prisons. See the intro post here.] Analytical Memo on the Situation of Human Rights in the Russia...
In honor of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the rest of Russia’s new generation of political prisoners, this week my blog will be dedicated to special coverage, stories, translations, and reports on the conditions inside Russia’s prision syst...
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