It’s a while off, but a European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee has preempted what we will doubtless be hearing as a complaint in December, namely that the parliamentary elections will not have been conducted with sufficient freedom an...
Amid all of the Economic Forum analysis and the pre-presidential race commentaries, it is refreshing to see Simon Shuster of Time magazine offer something of a guilty pleasure. It is a well-known fact that the media in Russia are about as fr...
TODAY: US presses Russia on rights abuses; bikers up in arms; army officer’s extraordinary bribes; competition for Prokhorov? China takes Russian side on US missile defense; NATO Sec-General criticizes Russian ‘out of date’...
TODAY: Orlov acquitted in rare boon for NGO workers; Khodorkovsky whistleblower’s claims countered by authorities; Mironov enters lower house. Medvedev fires two top police officials as reform of law enforcement ramps up; St Petersburg...
A rare piece of good news just in on the Russian rights landscape. Oleg Orlov, head of the Memorial group, has, somewhat surprisingly, been acquitted in the slander case brought against him by Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov. The accu...
A rare piece of good news just in on the Russian rights landscape. Oleg Orlov, head of the Memorial group, has, somewhat surprisingly, been acquitted in the slander case brought against him by Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov. The accu...
TODAY: Budanov buried with military honors; fears of reprisals swell; another lawsuit for Artemy Troitsky; sentence for Orlov to be announced today; tardy governor holds up air traffic. Libya mediation through chess? Russian pavilion draws p...
TODAY: Budanov buried with military honors; fears of reprisals swell; another lawsuit for Artemy Troitsky; sentence for Orlov to be announced today; tardy governor holds up air traffic. Libya mediation through chess? Russian pavilion draws p...
Couldn’t help but be amused by Shaun Walker’s piece in the Independent today, on actress Sharon Stone’s apparent predilection for all things Russian. Those of you who had the misfortune to witness Vladimir Putin crooning Bl...
TODAY: Protestors thwarted on Russia Day; Russia’s only convicted war criminal slain; Moscow fares badly in rule of law report; Magnitsky-linked officials fired; Khodorkovsky dispatched to unknown location. Russia ignores UN talks on S...
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