Dmitri Trenin, author of some books about Russian politics, has a series of online Q&A sessions with readers of the Financial Times. Although we generally like the analysis coming out of Carnegie, and believe that Trenin can occasionally offe...
An editorial on Russia’s crackdown on protests in the Wall Street Journal today puts the Yukos affair into context: The pivotal event was Yukos. Before this case, it was hard to imagine that the Kremlin could ever go so far as to use a tax e...
Former chess champion Garry Kasparov is detained by police during an opposition rally in Moscow, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2007. Riot police on Saturday broke up an anti-Kremlin rally of several thousand people, detaining some of the protesters, includin...
One of the great strengths of this blog is that we actually have the resource of people who speak Russian, as well as our own correspondents in Russia. This allows us to offer you such exclusive breaking stories as the following, in which Garry Ka...
Garry Kasparov and Karinna Moskalenko. Photo from last April (AP) Earlier today I had the chance to speak with Karinna Moskalenko on the phone, who is currently in Strasbourg, about the arrest and incarceration of her client Garry Kasparov. The ev...
I’ve just got off the phone with my colleague Karinna Moskalenko, one of Garry Kasparov‘s brave lawyers, who once again finds herself working throughout the night to free her client from an arbitrary detention. Before posting my brief ...
It’s just like a replay of last April, but perhaps even worse. According to some reports, more than 3,000 people marched in Moscow today against Putin – a protest which was quickly and in some cases violently suppressed by police. Garr...
[Also see the first installment of this series] Part 2: Special Operation «Olympiad» By Grigory Pasko, journalist The Imereti Valley President of Russia Putin, who had so confidently presented «project Sochi» to the International Olympic Committee...
There’s a new test for Russia’s famous axiom, “What Gazprom wants, Gazprom gets.” The answer from the embattled LSE-listed oil company Imperial Energy: not so fast. On Friday the company rejected a bid from Gazprombank to a...
Sergei Lukashevsky from Demos tells a reporter: “A bureaucratic machine has been unleashed and it strangles everyone, starting with the weaker ones. … I do not believe that the powers that have a desire to stamp out civil society as su...
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
