This opinion piece from Alexander Arkhangelsky was published on RIA Novosti in Russian last week, and then translated a few days later (still before the double murder of Markelov and Baburova). See Arkhangelsky’s earlier pieces and RA&...
From the editorial page of the Washington Post: The larger story here is of serial murders of Mr. Putin’s opponents, at home and abroad. Ms. Baburova, 25, is at least the 15th journalist to be slain since Mr. Putin took power. No one has bee...
Several hundred Muscovites, a rather small number considering the gravity of the event, have come out today to lay roses, mourn, and demand justice for the brutal murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and reporter Anastasia Baburova. It seems ...
Oil has dropped below $34 a barrel. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has ordered changes to this year’s federal budget, drawing up new calculations on an estimated average price of $41 per barrel of crude oil for the year, roughly in line...
Dmitry Medvedev’s economic adviser says the government is approaching the final stages of its ruble devaluation, and is planning to allocate another $40 billion to banks to support lending. Moscow rent prices are plummeting, with some proper...
TODAY: Putin and Tymoshenko sign 10-year gas deal, networks to return to working order in 36 hours; Medvedev sanctions countries selling arms to Georgia; Human Rights Watch calls for probe into death of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasiya Baburova. ...
Yet another human rights advocate killed in the capital of Russia. Lawyer Stanislav Markelov was shot on Prechistenka street in the center of Moscow. Stanislav was only 34 years old, but he was well known not only in the milieu of human rights adv...
It would seem odd that your average extremist ultra-nationalist would use a professional silencer. This comes from RFE/RL: Svetlana Gannushkina of Russia’s Memorial human rights center told RFE/RL’s Russian Service that Markelov&...
Today’s murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov was preceded by many clear warnings and physical threats, some indirect and others quite overt. In addition to being an outspoken human rights activist with a focus on Ingushetia, the South Caucasu...
Grigory Pasko has contacted us to inform that Russian media is reporting that Anastasia Baburova, the young freelance reporter from Novaya Gazeta who was accompanying Stanislav Markelov, has died in hospital while receiving urgent medical care for...
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