Earlier this week, the Guardian’s Moscow correspondent Miriam Elder wrote about her personal frustration with Russian bureaucracy. She clearly hit a raw nerve when she dared to criticize the country’s dry cleaning establishments, beca...
Earlier this week, the Guardian’s Moscow correspondent Miriam Elder wrote about her personal frustration with Russian bureaucracy. She clearly hit a raw nerve when she dared to criticize the country’s dry cleaning establishments, beca...
The St Petersburg anti-homosexual propaganda law has raised a global storm of controversy, unsurprisingly, given that it effectively legalizes homophobia in a country where sexual minorities are already uniformly harassed by the state and frequent...
The St Petersburg anti-homosexual propaganda law has raised a global storm of controversy, unsurprisingly, given that it effectively legalizes homophobia in a country where sexual minorities are already uniformly harassed by the state and frequent...
TODAY: Putin quits United Russia; positions Medvedev for the job. The President promises reforms; opposition are ‘zeroes’ says Putin spokesman; Shein ceases hunger strike; education reform protest; anti-sex law; the failure of Russia&...
Roza Khutor’s construction works for the 2014 Sochi Olympics are on hold after Vneshekonombank withheld $3.6 billion in promised loans. The Finance Ministry has announced plans to contribute $10 billion to the IMF. It looks increasingly unlikely...
As up to 65,000 of Moscow’s pious prayed for the protection of the Russian Orthodox Church on the weekend, Kremlin critic and music journalist Artemy Troitsky was penning a sermon of his own. ‘I am just as unsure about who is to blame...
Since the start of this year, Russia’s police force has been beset by claims of violence, which have came to the foregroun following the death of a man in custody in Kazan who had been raped with champagne bottle. Today it was announced by ...
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