From the Editor: Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s lawyers have filed a petition with the Ingodinsky District Court of Chita on the conditional early release (that’s Russian for “parole”) of the ex-head of YUKOS. At a recent press conference in Moscow, lawye...
Editor’s note: Recently the Syktyvkar city court in northern Russia found local resident Savva Terentiev guilty of inflaming social discord with his comment and sentenced him to one year of deprivation of liberty, suspended. We will remind o...
A very interesting column by the talented Mark H. Teeter in the Moscow Times ponders whether or not it is appropriate for people to casually extrapolate the term “gulag” for application in vastly different cases, and under whose owners...
It happened to Estonia in the midst of the Bronze Soldier fight, it happened to Radio Free Europe, and now it looks like it might be happening to Georgia, as the UN takes on the Abkhazia issue. This first attack, not yet confirmed in origin, looks...
After helping sweep Putin’s political party United Russia to another overwhelming victory in the last presidential elections through a series of intimidations and harassment incidents, what’s left to do for the state-funded youth group...
Every once in a while we hear a Kremlin critic argue that the country’s recent pattern of behavior mirrors that of pre-war Germany, characterized by truculence and rejection of the world order, nationalistic authoritarian capitalism, and agg...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has ordered the guarantee of full oil supplies to the Czech Republic in an attempt to show that the previous cut was not made for political reasons. TNK-BP chief Robert Dudley has written to the country’s immigr...
Is Russia facing an economic slowdown? The owner of miner Mechel will seek to buy 3-5% of the company’s stock from the market to drive its price up ahead of a planned share offering. The latest Russian military technology “can’t match the sp...
TODAY: Chavez in Moscow; Poland and US move forward on missile defense; Nashi looking for a new purpose; Kremlin to curb “dangerous” teen fashion; UN Ambassador moves to defend Sudanese president; postwar artists, heroin addicts, presidential port...
Dear Readers, The previous entry on Spanish-Russian energy relations represents the 3,000th English-language blog post we have put up on this site since our inception in September 2006. On February 11th, 2008, we published our 2,000th post, and on...
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