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A Funeral for Russian Democracy
More cryptic words out of Dmitry Medvedev regarding the recent parliamentary elections, which many, including Mikhail Gorbachev, claim were blatantly rigged. Some reporters came away from his Saturday comments to opposition leaders believing...
Human Rights In Last Place
Beijing 2008, Sochi 2014, Rio 2016: BRIC nations are having an Olympic boom. It is an unfortunate fact, however, that the Olympic Games tend to spell trouble for civil liberties when taking place in authoritarian regimes. One only has ...
Voting Rights (and Wrongs)
Outcry over the election results continues. Sergei Mitrokhin, chairman of the Yabloko party, has an impassioned piece in the Moscow Times regarding the alleged vote-rigging in the October 11 election. Numerous practices to impede oppos...
The Convict who Frightens the Kremlin
The following is a translation of an article about the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky published in the French weekly magazine, Le Nouvel Observateur. The Convict who Frightens the Kremlin From our special correspondent in Moscow Mikhail Khod...
Grigory Pasko: I live to this day as well…
I live to this day as well… Grigory Pasko, journalist Instead of an epigraph: «Endpiece of a modern fairytale: «And had the not been rehabilitated, they live to this day as well» — Jerzy Lec Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной ста...
The Motives of Russia’s Pro-Gaza Vote
Online political newsletter Counter Punch has posted an interesting piece on Russia’s decision to endorse the Goldstone Gaza report in the United Nations Human Rights Council last week. Although I can’t agree with the broad summa...
Energy Blast – Oct 23, 2009
In a meeting with Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, Vladimir Putin made a surprise announcement that the South Stream pipeline, a joint project between Gazprom and Italy’s Eni, could be finished before its official start-up...
Today in Russian Business – Oct 23, 2009
Russia has dropped its $22.5 billion lawsuit against Bank of New York Mellon after the company agreed to pay a $14 million settlement, and iwas subsequently announced that BoNY loans to Russian state banks would resume almost immediately. State ar...
RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Oct 23, 2009
TODAY: Election furore continues; Iran nuclear question hinges on Russian stance? U.S. to back Russian WTO bid; Kudrin blasts Moscow Mayor over salaries; corruption cases. Notes from Gorbachev and Khodorkovsky. A Moscow court has canceled the elec...
