The 10th Russian Economic Forum in London could be the last By Derek Brower, journalist IT ENDED as it began: not with a bang, but a whimper. And it could be the last time London hosts a Russia Economic Forum (REF), predicted some of the delegates...
La Russophobe has posted a translation of an important opinion article by Andrei Illarionov, formerly one of Vladimir Putin’s most senior economic advisors who resigned in protest of his policies at the end of 2005, published recently in Yez...
A tidbit from the Washington Post editorial on Yeltsin: But in the following seven years Mr. Putin has extinguished most of the liberal reforms his predecessor battled for. Once again elections in Russia are a Potemkin fraud, almost all the media ...
The Russian Power’s Springtime Offensive Grigory Pasko, journalist It is known that there is always a large number of policemen on the streets in Chita, where former heads of the YUKOS Oil Company Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev are being ...
The PORTOS Organization By Grigory Pasko, journalist In 2002, the Moscow Oblast Court sentenced two activists from the “Poeticized Association for the Elaboration of a Theory of Social Happiness” (PORTOS) to deprivation of liberty for a term of fr...
Nina Khrushcheva of the New School has an op/ed running today in Haaretz and the Miami Herald which links together the murders of Andrei Kozlov, Enver Ziganshin, and Anna Politkovskaya, and argues that Russia’s “dictatorship of lawR...
From the postscript to “Putin’s Russia”, by Anna Politkovskaya, murdered Saturday in Moscow: Yes, stability has come to Russia. It is a monstrous stability under which nobody seeks justice in lawcourts which flaunt their subservience and partisans...
A fascinating situation is developing in Germany regarding EU-Russia relations. According to the International Herald Tribune, Germany’s Social Democrats in control of the Foreign Ministry have drafted an internal paper outlining a new energ...
Today the media is reporting on the brutal slaying of esteemed Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family. From the Associated Press, published in the Guardian: Investigative Russian Journalist Killed Satur...
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