Barring a likely delay or rescheduling, Judge Viktor Danilkin is due to begin reading the verdict in the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev on December 15. It’s no use waiting for an acquittal or even a very mild verdict...
By now you have probably already come across a number of shocking photos, videos, and news stories from the rioting ultra-nationalist football fans, who took over a memorial event for a murdered fan and turned it into one of the uglier displays of...
The Financial Times has a write up of a recent off-the-record conference in Moscow featuring the historian Richard Pipes, reflecting on the current state of Russia’s progressive opinion makers. Apparently the hot topic of conversation ...
This weekend saw Turkmenistan play host to the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan in an attempt to make progress on the Iran-avoiding TAPI pipeline, which would see the energy-rich central Asian nation export 33 billion cubic meters of natural ga...
The Audit Chamber has apparently discovered that Emergency Situations Ministry officials misused $26 million of federal money over the course of the past three years. The state of Maryland has opened a trade office in Russia, hoping to impro...
TODAY: Ethnic tensions rise in Moscow as nationalists riot over football death; Beketov defamation ruling overturned; ‘Kushchevskaya model’ provokes continued fears; opposition parties’ brief foray into parliamentary discussions....
The Russian government thinks that it’s just deplorable that Julian Assange is under arrest and charged with a crime, yet doesn’t blink to open a probe against the anti-corruption crusader Alexei Navalny. Come to think of it, the...
The recent mass murder in Krasnodar Krai of 12 people, including four children who were burned alive, has seized the attention of the country. It’s not the cruelty of the act which has raised such a fuss – horrific violence has b...
I’m in unfamiliar territory today with this one, but nonetheless, it has to be said: Vladimir Putin is right. He’s entirely 100% right. Not in finally giving the opposition some gain on the question of migalki (which is goo...
Just before dawn on Sept. 22, a small bomb exploded about 100 yards away from the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia, leading to the discovery of another explosive device in a nearby cemetery. In the following weeks, a series of mysterious nig...
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