russia politics

February 18, 2011

Russia Still Failing on Rights, says UN Chief

,U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has concluded her five-day visit to Russia with, unsurprisingly, little in the way of compliments for the Russian government’s stance.  The scant praise she did offer was to President...
February 18, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Feb 18, 2011

TODAY: UN Rights Chief criticizes Russian failings; support for Khodorkovsky whistleblower; wife of jailed activist threatened.  Russian anger at militant’s US talk invite; top official proposes mandatory DNA database for migrants; Chin...
February 17, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Feb 17, 2011

TODAY: Guardian reporter refused visa extension; Khodorkovsky whistleblower motives considered;  Sobyanin says no to gay marches; Putin chastises customs officials over rap video; nationalist movement to be banned?  Russia-Italy cooperat...
February 17, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Feb 17, 2011

TODAY: Guardian reporter refused visa extension; Khodorkovsky whistleblower motives considered;  Sobyanin says no to gay marches; Putin chastises customs officials over rap video; nationalist movement to be banned?  Russia-Italy cooperat...
February 16, 2011

Ringing the Changes

It has been noted that the only salient agreement that seemed to emerge from the much-publicized meeting between Russian Foreign Secretary Sergei Lavrov and British counterpart William Hague was the news that a telephone hotline would be establish...
February 16, 2011

Ringing the Changes

It has been noted that the only salient agreement that seemed to emerge from the much-publicized meeting between Russian Foreign Secretary Sergei Lavrov and British counterpart William Hague was the news that a telephone hotline would be establish...
February 16, 2011

Guardian Journalist Faces Early Departure

Yesterday, the Guardian sought clarification on the visa status of its Russia reporter, Luke Harding, whose Kremlin-critical stance and Putin-irking work with Wikileaks saw him deported at the beginning of the month.  It seems they may have t...
February 16, 2011

Guardian Journalist Faces Early Departure

Yesterday, the Guardian sought clarification on the visa status of its Russia reporter, Luke Harding, whose Kremlin-critical stance and Putin-irking work with Wikileaks saw him deported at the beginning of the month.  It seems they may have t...
February 16, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Feb 16, 2011

TODAY: International focus at Lavrov-Hague meeting; Russian FM warns Britain on encouraging democracy abroad; new hotline to be set up.  Ring in about corruption; Gorbachev denounces diarchy; Left Front leader on hunger strike; policeman char...
February 15, 2011

Should Britain Reset Relations With Russia?

A somewhat heterdox argument today from Mary Dejevsky in the Independent, who has taken Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s visit to Westminster, as well as the events in Egypt as the chance to reflect upon the past twenty years of Russia-Brita...