TODAY: 3.5 million attend Easter services; two more bombs detonated over the weekend are linked to North Caucasus, investigators say; second Moscow metro bomber named; Yevgeny Chichvarkin believes mother’s death was murder; banner referencin...
Today Kommersant published photos of the suspected suicide bomber Dzhennet Abdurakhmanova, a 17-year-old girl from the Khasavyurtsky region of Dagestan who was married to the fallen militant Umalat Magomedov. Leave it to the British tabloids...
Sam Greene of the Carnegie Endowment’s Moscow Center has a very interesting article taking a look at the political implications of the Metro bombings. Given that Vladimir Putin kept his playdate with Hugo Chavez in Caracas instead of r...
The things I like best about Andrei Piontkovsky are his exceptional restraint, carefully measured understatement, and avoidance of inflammatory language … OK, Piontkovsky is pretty much the opposite of all that, but that doesn’t mean h...
The Times reports on whether Obama has made good on his nuclear promise one year on from the pivotal Prague speech. Good news for his upcoming nuclear summit; Chinese President Hu Jintao plans to attend. A lack of consensus still looms...
There has been a major raid by Interior Ministry investigators at Mirax Group’s offices as part of a probe into the alleged theft of $140,000 in electricity. The Washington Post has an interesting article on a lawyer-turned-corporate-a...
TODAY: Press keep mum on whether rights activist attacker will face charges; Medvedev visits Dagestan, urges ‘dagger blow’ against terrorists; 2 killed in car bomb in the troubled region; Strasbourg fines Russia over Ingushetia disappe...
Konstantin Pereverzev, born 1979, was already declaring himself to be a true “Russian Orthodox Patriot” on his way to the police station after being arrested for striking a blow to the face of 82-year-old human rights activist Lyudmila...
The Associated Press has published a new profile of the crusading lawyer Alexander Navalny, who has had the courage and persistence to push forward in the name of corporate governance and transparency, asking tough but simple questions such as who...
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