russia politics

June 7, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – June 7, 2011

TODAY: Rights worker beaten outside home; the increasing difficulty of protesting in Moscow; Luzkhov mulls return, but not to ruling party; Khodorkovsky denied parole. Communist and Just Russia parties take a leaf out of United Russia’s book...
June 7, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – June 7, 2011

TODAY: Rights worker beaten outside home; the increasing difficulty of protesting in Moscow; Luzkhov mulls return, but not to ruling party; Khodorkovsky denied parole. Communist and Just Russia parties take a leaf out of United Russia’s book...
June 6, 2011

Unfriendly Fire

Russia’s armed forces scarcely receive good publicity, and whilst their lack of structure, insufficient funding and superannuated facilities receive fairly constant criticism, these are certainly not the most worrying flaws of the services.&...
June 6, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – June 6, 2011

TODAY: Foreign Ministry raises alarm over NATO’s Libya campaign; Putin’s cucumber comments threaten EU relations.  Saakashvili claims dissidents are Kremlin-sponsored; stars attend five day war film premiere. US Senate voices conc...
June 6, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – June 6, 2011

TODAY: Foreign Ministry raises alarm over NATO’s Libya campaign; Putin’s cucumber comments threaten EU relations.  Saakashvili claims dissidents are Kremlin-sponsored; stars attend five day war film premiere. US Senate voices conc...
May 23, 2011

UK’s Bribery Law Approaches Russia

When the terms ‘business’ and ‘Russia’ are found in the same sentence, the word ‘corruption’ is never far behind it seems, so it is unsurprising that much has been made of how the UK Bribery Act could effect (in...
May 23, 2011

UK’s Bribery Law Approaches Russia

When the terms ‘business’ and ‘Russia’ are found in the same sentence, the word ‘corruption’ is never far behind it seems, so it is unsurprising that much has been made of how the UK Bribery Act could effect (in...
May 20, 2011

Auto-censorship Threatens Freedom Of Expression

President Medvedev may have made a rather embarrassing show of things at his damp squib of a press conference on Wednesday.  Journalists present didn’t seem to feel any more optimistic about their performance.  Yevgenia Albats, edi...
May 20, 2011

Auto-censorship Threatens Freedom Of Expression

President Medvedev may have made a rather embarrassing show of things at his damp squib of a press conference on Wednesday.  Journalists present didn’t seem to feel any more optimistic about their performance.  Yevgenia Albats, edi...
May 20, 2011

Lebedev Commits to People’s Front

‘Is a real fight against corruption not to Russia’s benefit?’  The words of Alexander Lebedev, known best as the owner of the Independent and Novaya Gazeta newspapers and the frequent victim of unwanted police raids on his N...