Not even three months have passed since the assassination of one of Russia’s greatest human rights lawyers, Stanislav Markelov, that once again we have blood on the Moscow snow. Once again, the victim is another illustrious human right...
Ariel Cohen of the Heritage Foundation has an interesting op/ed in the Washington Times arguing for greater attention to rule of law, which in all likelihood will not make its way onto the busy agenda for the meeting today between Barack Obama and...
Is there any room left any more for values-based diplomacy, or has everything slipped back into realism of great power politics? As Barack Obama makes his rounds at the G20 meeting in London this week, it appears that “principles”...
Coverage of the brutally violent attack against Lev Ponomarev late last night is beginning to make its way into the English press. Echo Moskvy reports that the attack took place after a meeting with PACE representative Sabine Leutheusser-Sch...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants Russia’s participation on the EU mission to upgrade Ukraine’s gas pipeline system. Dmitry Medvedev says that Russia will find it difficult to consider loans for Ukraine until the row over gas...
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is the latest to counter optimistic government outlooks on the economy, predicting that it will shrink by 5.6% this year. Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin says China’s yuan could ...
TODAY: Medvedev article positive on US relations; human rights activist Lev Ponomarev hospitalized after being beaten in Moscow; Lukashenko opens bidding war?; Khodorkovsky second trial begins; limousines.An article in the Washington Post by Dmitr...
From Day 1 of the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the following dramatic statement was read and greeted with surprising applause from observers and media in the courtroom. To the Khamovnichesky District Court of the city of Moscow To Federal Judge ...
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