The Emergencies Ministry says that extreme summer weather is destroying grain, vegetable and fodder crops in Russia’s southern Astrakhan region, and is concerned that grain prices could double as a result. The BBC is running a video re...
TODAY: Opposition criticizes new bill on grounds that it would revive Soviet-era intimidation, Sochi residents stage environmental protest, Khimki forest activists threatened; broody Russians; Bashkortostan gets new leader; Moscow Grand ...
In an interview with RFE/RL, Oleg Kalugin, former head of overseas KGB operations, scoffs at the recent spy scandal: Honestly, it made me laugh. It all seemed so laughable — an intelligence farce. Financing 10 or 12 people who had no direct ...
Last week I was in Kenya, advocating on behalf of a client in a UN trial, when I had the chance to meet with a number of leading African human rights specialists. Among others, I met with the well-known human rights lawyer Evans Monari, Member of ...
Writing in Eurasia Review, Paul Goble looks at the dismal state of healthcare for prisoners in Russia. Federal Penal System deputy head Nikolay Krivolapov said earlier this week that nearly half of the country’s prison population was ill. A ...
It’s a well-worn stereotype: the grim-faced, brooding Russian. But is there any truth to it? In a recent study, a group of scientists from the University of Michigan found that, though young Russians do seem to brood more than their American...
It’s Friday, and everybody could use a break. How about an AP news report on the spy caper, mashed up with classic cartoon clips from the Boris & Natasha show? Mildly amusing, I guess, and just as intelligent and revealing as...
I have a persistent fascination with how U.S. domestic politics break down on the Russia debate, and seems now more clear than ever that there is no clear right-left split, for as much as many pundits wish to impose one. The most vigorous pr...
Medvedev essentially told Merkel not to meddle in Russia’s domestic affairs when asked to comment on a new draft law that would give the country’s Federal Security Service, a successor to the KGB, more powers. But it might be difficult...
Stranger things have happened. The alleged assassin of Alexander Litvinenko, Andrei Lugovoi won himself a seat in the Duma with widespread popularity. Vitali Kaloyev, a bereaved father who murdered a Swiss air traffic controller, also ...
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