The writer Victor Erofeyev has published an opinion article in the New York Times commenting about what motivations Russians to embrace a familiar if ugly past instead of imagining a reformed future. His expression of support here echoes wha...
This editorial published in the Financial Times doubts that the rule structures of the World Trade Organization would be able to contain Russia, which they say is likely to be “a permanent delinquent.” Russia is being asked to change t...
From RA’s latest dispatch in the Huffington Post on the death by medical blackmail of Sergei Magnitsky: It has become something of a journalistic cliché to take these shocking Kafkaesque legal sagas in Russia and call them “a litmus te...
Russia’s EU ambassador says his country aims to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 25% through to 2020. Ukraine’s President, Viktor Yushchenko, has written an open letter to Dmitry Medvedev, asking him to change the terms of agreement ...
The 2010 budget has passed a second reading after the Duma ‘brushed aside proposals from the opposition‘. Most of the amendments were ‘minor‘, says The Moscow Times, but the new budget has more than halved state suppo...
TODAY: EU-Russia summit ‘one of the best we’ve had’; WTO bid to happen as soon as possible; Prosecutor General investigating lawyer Magnitsky’s death; Solidarity says it has evidence against officers; Putin raises eyebrows ...
Voice of America has published an important piece on the death of Hermitage lawyer Sergei Magnitsky and the practice of medical blackmail in Russian prisons: Magnitsky developed problems with his pancreas and gall bladder as a result of what his A...
Yes, so, as always Lilia Shevtsova is basically awesome, and her latest piece in the Moscow Times makes quite a lot of sense of the games being playing within the “reset.” Meanwhile, the ruling elite have decided to discuss democratic ...
From Philip Pan’s coverage of the death of Hermitage lawyer Sergei Magnitsky: But Jamison Firestone, the head of Magnitsky’s firm and a board member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia, said the authorities had denied Magnits...
There is a new (?) French documentary out about Anna Politkovskaya directed by Eric Bergkraut which is getting some rave reviews. Here is the website, and below is one video (I couldn’t find the trailer).
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