Burger King has arrived in Russia. RusAl’s Hong Kong IPO – the first of its kind for a Russian company – has raised $2.2 billion, a strong show of investor confidence. The cash will in part go towards clearing some of...
TODAY: Hammarberg counsels Medvedev on human rights; presidential forecast for 2012; Kremlin ‘undaunted’ by Polish missiles; Dejevsky on Politkovskaya; diplomatic row with Kiev; riot police and bulldozers evict mansion owners; figure s...
We just received an email notice with a link over to the blog of Oleg Kozlovsky, a prominent and impressive youth leader in the opposition, who has announced that the FSB has refused to renew his passport. The authorities have invented a tra...
We’ve had a few blog posts around here in recent weeks that the Ukrainian presidential front runner is often inaccurately portrayed, and that his victory isn’t exactly a win for Moscow. But here the Economist goes for the full ro...
You would think that if you were a white supremacist, neo-nazi, or another brand of ultra-nationalist, that Russia would be an exceptionally welcoming place to live. The government regularly breaks up and arrests those who protest against yo...
Click here to hear the audio from Robert Amsterdam’s appearance on BBC Radio 4 to talk about Google’s human rights move in China, the case of dissident Dr. Chee Soon Juan in Singapore, and several other issues.
The United Nations insists that it wants to keep guiding climate change talks, despite last month’s disastrous Copenhagen summit. According to the head of the organization’s climate change administration, ‘Copenhagen didn’t...
A conservative US think tank has ranked Russia’s economy a hair’s breadth above ‘repressed‘. Igor Shuvalov says the government is considering tax breaks for private enterprises in the education and healthcare sectors, and i...
TODAY: Human Rights Watch annual report findings; Medvedev to meet with Council of Europe commissioner; helicopter poacher sworn in for second term; contradictory reports over whether Russia to boost its Baltic Fleet in response to US deployment o...
My apologies to all our readers for the delayed comments outage … those Chinese spammers really had our number. We’ve given up on playing around with different Movable Type plugins and handed our comments over to Intense Debate.&...
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