Activists’ efforts have been awarded with the staggering news that President Dmitry Medvedev has temporarily halted and ordered a review into the construction of a highway through the Khimki forest. But The Economist’s ‘East...
Seriously? Not even just this one time when a world famous rock band comes to town and is gracious enough to do a photo shoot with the president, can the Russian police resist the temptation to act like moronic gestapo by arresting and banni...
Writing over at Russia Profile, Roland Oliphant has some fascinating quotes from Roy Isbister of Safer World. One of the reasons why I think any trial of Viktor Bout is unlikely to reveal any “blockbuster” exposures is that so ma...
The saga of the “merchant of death” Victor Bout has taken a stunning new turn. Last week, a Thai appeals court reversed a lower court judgment and ordered the Russian citizen extradited to the United States. This was clearly in respons...
There is such a news wire under the name of «Kaplya zhelchi» [A drop of bile–Trans.] There, wonderful Russian journalists, as a rule, oppositionally disposed in relation to the regime of Putin, subtly observe certain peculiarities of this re...
Rosatom is eagerly anticipating a ‘nuclear renaissance‘. Ukraine’s Prime Minister points out that ‘extremely unfavorable agreements with Russia‘ for gas supplies are putting serious strain on the economy, and is...
A group of high-ranking bankers is suspected of laundering more than $65 million a month. ‘Russia’s stock market is currently trading at a third below its historic valuation levels.‘ Moscow’s City Hall is offeri...
TODAY: Amnesty members detained at U2 concert; Strategy 31 cop under investigation; Triumfalnaya closure won’t deter protesters; anti-Putin report confiscated; Luzkhov prefers bees; Young Guard leader stepping down; bombers near Canadian air...
A day after Medvedev sipped tea with Bono on the sunny veranda of his summer villa, Putin chased whales in choppy waters near Russia’s Pacific coast. How symbolic of the role division in the Medvedev-Putin duumvirate. The AFP reports: Dresse...
My acquaintance Katya Veresova, a journalist from Babayevo, told me a fascinating story. At the end of July the Babayevo district federal court issued a guilty verdict in a criminal case in relation to the chief of the Borosovo-Sudsky territorial ...
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