The following is a translation from the French newspaper Le Monde: Le Monde, Editorial February 8, 2008 Putin’s Vindictiveness The vindictiveness of Vladimir Putin knows no bounds. In 2005, he went after Mikhail Khodorkovsky, one of the Yeltsin er...
Both have considerable oil resources, both are ruled by dictators and thieving cliques, and both are experiencing increasing instability. I’ve spoken often about the parallel political convergence between Russia and Venezuela as well as thei...
There’s a great opinion article about the tragedy of Vasily Alexanyan by Trudy Rubin of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Rubin argues that even after the Yukos affair, “this blatant manipulation of courts and laws seems to have been insuffic...
Former political prisoner Mikhail Trepashkin writes in the Moscow Times about his experience in Building 6 of the Matrosskaya Tishina pretrial detention center, the same place where Vasily Alexanyan was being held: “In addition, the authorit...
La Russophobe has posted a translation of an interesting letter written by the Russian filmmaker Vladimir Sinelnikov to President Vladimir Putin published in Yezhednevniy Zhurnal. Two years ago, Sinelnikov was in a car accident with an FSB officer...
The highly respected Bill Burke White is guest blogging over at Concurring Opinions, and has done a terrific post entitled “International Law and the New Russia.” Below is just an excerpt. Indicative of Russia’s disregard for human rig...
On the 11th day of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s hunger strike, we see more and more contradictory reports that fatally ill prisoner Vasily Alexanyan has been “spirited off” to a new facility to finally receive the medical care he was b...
In a new article in the Wall Street Journal, Zenyo Baran and Robert A. Smith of the Hudson Institute explain how Gazprom has pushed the economically astronomically expensive South Stream pipeline to defeat two competing European proposals designed...
This clip from the Labour Party features David Miliband and Douglas Alexander talking about British relations with Russia, among other foreign affairs issues. Fast forward to 4:48 for the good stuff.
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