TODAY: 40 detained at Moscow gay rights rally; whether the arrested were participants or opponents remains unclear; the activities of art’s enfants terribles Voina; Britain’s secret Magnitsky blacklist; FSB authorized to kill abroad, s...
Following the announcement of Putin’s presidential comeback, anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny was one of the first commentators to suggest that the main threat to the seemingly endless continuation of his rule would be Russia’s i...
Following the announcement of Putin’s presidential comeback, anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny was one of the first commentators to suggest that the main threat to the seemingly endless continuation of his rule would be Russia’s i...
Many have lamented that since the demise of the puppet show Kukli, which was taken off the air in 2002, allegedly following pressure from the Kremlin, the place once held by Russian political satire has remained sorrily empty. Earlier this month,...
Many have lamented that since the demise of the puppet show Kukli, which was taken off the air in 2002, allegedly following pressure from the Kremlin, the place once held by Russian political satire has remained sorrily empty. Earlier this month,...
Clifford Gaddy argues that the work of Alexei Kudrin is not yet done, and as soon as Vladimir Putin re-assumes the presidency, a new job will be invented for him to fulfill. Kudrin and Putin came in August 1996 as a package, and in fact they opera...
For the past number of years, extreme right groups of nationalists in Russia were more or less successfully contained, co-opted, and incorporated under the structures of the ruling party, with the Nashi only representing the tip of the iceberg. I...
Petrocrat, gerontocrat, kleptocrat. The nomenclature used in this week’s op-eds to describe Putin’s specific brand of leadership seem to have drawn upon almost every possible type of dictatorship in modern history. An interesting poi...
Petrocrat, gerontocrat, kleptocrat. The nomenclature used in this week’s op-eds to describe Putin’s specific brand of leadership seem to have drawn upon almost every possible type of dictatorship in modern history. An interesting poi...
Raids on the offices of European companies by machine-gun toting FSB henchmen make for frequent headlines. Energy major BP was one of the companies to recently experience this lesser pleasure of operating a business in Russia, namely the moment w...
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