A report in Vedomosti (translation via RT) summarizes the disappointing findings by the Anti-Corruption Research Center under Russia’s Ministry of Justice. In 2007, 21,842 such crimes have been registered, and only 6,185 cases were brought t...
Here’s a “news story” that was shown on one of Russia’s official Kremlin-owned and -controlled television channels during Vladimir Putin’s recent motoring holiday across one of the few parts of Siberia where there are...
We’ve often featured translations from the pro-government news outlet RBK Daily, which often goes a few steps too far in its efforts to please the leadership, resulting in amusing and sometimes enlightening tidbits of officialistic thinking....
Gazprom is poised to sign a deal with Azerbaijan to increase its gas imports to ‘as much as Azerbaijan is ready to deliver‘ during President Medvedev’s visit. Amid plans to ‘double in size‘ and find foreign part...
Aeroflot is seeking $3.67 million in compensation from the Moscow city government for the traffic jams that blocked the way to Sheremetyevo Airport in June. A spokesperson for Mayor Yury Luzhkov called the lawsuit ‘the work of a truly ...
TODAY: Moscow Governor corrals pro-Khimki highway residents; activists’ website under attack; lawyer launches campaign for imprisoned mother of four; US comments on Strategy 31 arrests; Medvedev in Azerbajan; Lukashenko blames Moscow for emb...
Sergey Kochkin from Orenburg writes: “Hello Grigory! I ask you to help. The essence of the problem is in the following: around our village of Kubanka of Perevolotsky rayon of Orenburg oblast are found many wells of the Orenburgneft company, ...
A Good Treaty has summarized an interesting exchange on Echo Moskvy featuring the polittechnologists Gleb Pavlovsky and Marat Gelman, discussing Vladimir Putin’s most recent macho, potty-talk interview with Andrey Kolesnikov of Kommersant (i...
At this point, I think it’s safe to say that Alexei Kudrin is just taking the piss. “People should understand: Those who drink, those who smoke are doing more to help the state,” Kudrin said, as quoted by the Interfax news agency...
Der Spiegel has an article today profiling two important players in the Russian blogosphere – Rustem Adagamov (Drugoi) and Robert Schlegel of the Nashi, and how they are squaring off in the struggle over web censorship. It seems hard t...
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