TODAY: International condemnation of Khodorkovsky verdict; Oleg Orlov vs Ramzan Kadyrov; Putin recommends restricting trial by jury; Medvedev and PM’s difference of opinion over ethnic integration model; Russian dissidents living in Germany ...
Today a court in Moscow began reading out the guilty verdict for Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, arduously plodding through the paperwork that somehow legalizes the state’s crime against the individual, while making the fantastical ...
Early in the presidency of Dmitry Medvedev, many in the West were hoping for a turn away from state corruption and toward the rule of law in Russia. Unfortunately that train has now left the station. From Moscow to Brasilia to Beijing, there has e...
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has attempted to steer attention away from the South Stream pipeline by offering Russia and the EU the chance to take part in upgrading and overseeing the Ukrainian gas transport system, arguing this is a more...
In his televised interview with three Russian TV channels, President Medvedev praised Russia’s emergence from the economic crisis as one of the country’s major achievements of 2010. The BBC‘s Tanya Beckett reports from Volg...
TODAY: Khodorkovsky and Lebedev found guilty of embezzlement charges; Yukos founder judges Putin to be ‘pitiable’; US cables lament ‘rule-of-law gloss’; uncover deplorable prison conditions. Medvedev in Q+A cautions politic...
Reuters reports that North Korea may carry out a third atomic test as a sort of bellicose welcoming ceremony for the heir apparent. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that six-party talks next month could be ‘an historic op...
The BBC’s Steve Rosenburg takes Arkady Dvorkovich to task over corruption, lack of the rule of law, the Magnitsky case and the Khodorkovsky trial in a video interview. In an unprecedented case, the Arbitration Institute of the Stockhol...
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