A by-lined opinion article by Robert Amsterdam was published in today’s Toronto Star. A vote that insults democracy Canada has an interest in resisting dangerous anti-democratic trends afflicting Putin’s Russia Robert Amsterdam Preside...
Below is part 3 of the Lyudmila Alexeyeva interviews from Grigory Pasko’s Faces of the Opposition interview series features. See the entire series on our YouTube channel.
From Grigory Pasko’s series of interviews, Faces of the Opposition, here is the coordinator of the Oborona youth movement, Oleg Kozlovsky. The impressive Mr. Kozlovsky also published a manifesto on our blog back in July. See all the Faces of...
The next installment of Grigory Pasko’s Faces of the Opposition interview series features Lyudmila Alexeyeva talking about the various indications that Russia is headed toward becoming a police state. See the first Alexeyeva interview here, ...
An important quote from Jane Armstrong’s dispatch from Moscow in the Globe and Mail: Presidential candidate Boris Nemstov remembers the exact day Mr. Putin abandoned all pretense of being a democrat. It was Oct. 23, 2003, when police arreste...
Oh my. Well, this takes care of quite a lot of our holiday shopping… From GIZMODO: Those of you who fear they’ve got on the wrong side of Vladimir Putin just might find the Polonium Pen a must-have. Basically a hand-made ion chamber wi...
From the cheeky editors of the FT: The Russian football team has successfully employed a foreign coach because there was no suitable domestic candidate. Why should the Russian state not behave in the same way? The Russians seem to be keen on the s...
Thanks to some colleagues of mine in Russia, I’m pleased to be the first to offer this exclusive translation of a very important Kommersant interview with Oleg Shvartsman of FPG Finansgrupp. The information shared by Mr. Shvartsman is entire...
There’s a new audio slideshow by Catherine Belton featuring some terrific photographs up on the FT site – it’s worth checking out. She talks with one middle-class Russian man whose living has improved greatly during the Putin pre...
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