TODAY: Opposition activist torture claims; Miliband leaves with no breakthrough regarding diplomatic concerns; meets with rights activists; Putin and Medvedev popularity waning?; President in need of own power structure to realize reforms; Stalin ...
Bob has an opinion article in today’s edition of the Guardian stressing the importance of linking human rights with foreign relations during David Miliband’s visit to Russia this week, and elsewhere in the same paper, Mikhail Khodorkov...
Opinio Juris, one of the treasure troves of the internet and a blog that I read frequently and have great respect for, acknowledged a very important case the other day in which a federal court in Florida decided to refuse to enforce a $97 million ...
Mikhael Gorbachev has penned an article in the New York Times reflecting on how the period since the fall of the Berlin Wall (the 20th anniversary of which will be celebrated on Friday) has not necessarily heralded a less distrustful approach to R...
An appeal from Russian citizen and ecologist Andrey Zatoka, residing in Dashoguz, Turkmenistan, to you, to me, to our dear readers, to anyone listening. I, Andrey Zatoka, ask for your help with regard to law enforcement agencies that are repressin...
Could the career of Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who has surveying Russia’s capital for the past seventeen years be on the rocks? With the recent election, reports circulated that the septuagenarian politician could be facing the axe aft...
As the recent story of the use of the Soviet anthem celebrating Stalin and Lenin in Kurskaya station evinces, praising leaders via verse is a mainstay of state propaganda. So it is no surprise, really, that ‘Uncle Putin‘ is to be...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is alleging that Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko blocked a money transfer for Russian gas, and reportedly warned the Swedish prime minister that disruptions to European gas supplies could be on the cards again. ...
Of Russia’s 1,000-plus banks, only the top five account for nearly half of the sector’s assets, and the central bank’s first deputy chairman says that Russia must discourage its banks from becoming too big, possibly by applying t...
TODAY: Police arrest weekend protesters; British Foreign Secretary travels to Russia to mend relations; the Stalin question; UN Human Rights Committee urges Russian reforms; simulated attacks on Poland, Kremlin campaigning against Moscow Mayor. At...
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