Greg White’s article in the Wall Street Journal today on the the Moscow Public Oversight Commission report on the death of Hermitage lawyer Sergei Magnitsky is essential reading. It is an absolutely devastating, criminal, and impossibl...
Stephen Walt makes an interesting case for Washington to keep its hands off Iran’s dissident movement and allow events to run their course – drawing an analogy with the Velvet Revolution movement which broke from the Soviet Union in Ea...
Good news for Russia – the price of oil is at a four-week high. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has launched the Kozmino port, a $2 billion Pacific oil terminal aimed at ‘conquering Asian markets‘, funded by Transneft. ...
Russia’s anti-monopoly service has opened a probe into mobile operator Vimpel Communications, suspecting it of abusing its market position. The word for Russian business in 2010: restructuring. President Dmitry Medvedev is report...
TODAY: Prison and police reform are on the cards, but critics wait for real results; Medvedev into alternative American bands; time to ban drinking and driving; touring Kiev, resetting with the US, memorial demolition and anti-Georgian sentiment. ...
My client Eligio Cedeño, who up until Dec. 10 was one of Venezuela’s most well known political prisoners, released his first statement on Christmas Day afternoon since being legally admitted and processed into his new residence in the United...
I can not sit calmly and listen to the raptures of certain of my colleagues and even of certain human rights advocates on account of the declaration of the new director of the Federal Service for the Execution of Punishments (FSIN) of Russia [the ...
Ronald Asmus has a good editorial on the evolving security dynamic between Russia and the European Union and United States published in the Washington Post: Europe’s bloody history illustrated that spheres of influence do not produce real se...
Dmitry Medvedev went on television the other day to attack Russia’s notoriously inefficient state-owned companies. It was a classic public tongue-lashing – the kind we used to see the place-holding PM Viktor Zubkov give to unfort...
Thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people in Russia wear a military or militarized form of dress. Although, common sense would dictate that they shouldn’t be wearing the uniform. For example, security guards or doctors, journalists o...
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