At the end of last year, the leadership of Russia’s penitentiary system announced its intention to reform itself by the year 2020. Earlier the leadership of the MVD had also indicated that they were planning to implement reforms to their ope...
Megan Stack at the Los Angeles Times has a good article today on the murder by police brutality of the journalist Konstantin Popov, whose death has revealed the tragic face of routine violence and impunity by members of the policy force. Pop...
Below is a subtitled video interview with human rights leader Lyudmila Alexeyeva from outside the courtroom of the second trial against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev. Just click the button down in the right hand corner to turn on t...
Perhaps Ramzan Kadyrov of Chechnya feels bad about some recent misunderstandings, and wants to give something back to the Russian people. Maybe he’s hoping that Medvedev and Putin come to visit him, instead of Sochi, to play their rein...
So what is the worst job in the world right now? Chinese judge? Investor in Venezuela? Coach of the Oakland Raiders? Those are all pretty bad gigs, but Dmitry Medvedev has just created something even worse: a Kremlin envoy ...
TODAY: Medvedev groups volatile regions into new district, appoints business-savvy head; announces demographic-boosting plans and sends new ambassador to Ukraine. Patriarch Kirill and Yulia Latynina weigh in on Haiti; police detain protesters marc...
I happen to be one of those people who believes that the raw skills and pervasive cunning of enduring political leaders is independent of the given political system in which they operate (though it can certainly have an impact). For example,...
Below is an excerpt from my latest article published in the Wall Street Journal. I do not intend to draw comparisons between the vastly different international cases mentioned in the article, but rather compare the careful use of language by...
In commemoration of the one-year anniversary of the terrible murder of human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, RFE/RL speaks with the parents of the latter about their fears for her safety at the time, on the grow...
Yulia Latynina, the famously sharp and acerbic Russian political commentator, has really stirred up some strong reactions in both Georgia and Russia with a recent column published in Novaya Gazeta, which argued that any other leader in Georgia oth...
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