David R. Cameron, a professor of political science at Yale University, has a letter published in the FT today about the easiest way for Vladimir Putin to stay in power: amend Article 81 of the constitution. Thanks to Sunday’s victory at the ...
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev receives a standing ovation from dignitaries, students, and faculty at the Kennedy School of Government Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2007. at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. after speaking on the 20th anniversa...
Mikhail Trepashkin freed, Part 1 By Grigory Pasko, journalist On 30 November, former FSB RF officer Mikhail Trepashkin was released from a general regime penal colony in Nizhny Tagil. He had been sentenced on 19 May 2004 by the Moscow District Mil...
Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, held a press conference today to announce that the Russian government’s efforts to defend freedom of the press fell far short of their commitments. His report, which can be do...
[Our correspondent in Russia recently discovered that the border town of Vyborg near St. Petersburg was going to hold discreet (practically secret) public hearings on Gazprom’s mega-project, the Nord Stream pipeline, to discuss the social an...
In his speech yesterday before his cabinet, Vladimir Putin expressed a surprising amount of reticence that now that one campaign is over, another is beginning: It is a pity, of course, that we have one election campaign coming straight after anoth...
Here’s a video clip of some apparent ballot stuffing under pressure in Russia from smena.info. If anyone knows more about this, or if it is just a hoax, let us know. UPDATE: Dutch journalist and blogger Remco Reiding has provided additional ...
Andrei Illarionov, a former top economic adviser to Vladimir Putin, recently penned a column in Yezhednevniy Zhurnal entitled “The Beginnings of a Catastrophe.” Below, a translation provided by La Russophobe: The Beginnings of a Catast...
Supporters of the pro-Kremlin Young Russia movement hold pictures of opposition leaders inside a makeshift pigsty in central Moscow supposed to represent mercenary politicians serving US national interests, 03 December 2007. (AFP/Dmitry Kostyukov)...
Vote and dance – thinking is optional, part 2 The elections in the Russian backwoods Grigory Pasko, journalist The time was 10:00 AM. People weren’t exactly arriving in droves: by 10 in the morning, 15 people had voted out of the 446 voters assign...
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