Russia

June 22, 2011

‘Pilot Error’ or Time to Scrap Tupolev Fleet?

Russian officials are eagerly towing the line that ‘pilot error‘ was to blame for the plane crash in Karelia that killed 44 of its 52 passengers yesterday – just as they did following the Smolensk plane crash that killed Polish P...
June 22, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – June 22, 2011

TODAY: Kashin cleared of defamation charges; Russia blames pilot of Karelia crash, sources imply Tupolev fleet is to blame; 4-day Khimki occupation; 2,000-strong Rubtsovsk utilities protest; Putin reiterates joint project with Medvedev; Russia out...
June 22, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – June 22, 2011

TODAY: Kashin cleared of defamation charges; Russia blames pilot of Karelia crash, sources imply Tupolev fleet is to blame; 4-day Khimki occupation; 2,000-strong Rubtsovsk utilities protest; Putin reiterates joint project with Medvedev; Russia out...
June 21, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – June 21, 2011

TODAY: 44 killed in Karelia plane crash; Khodorkovsky’s whereabouts revealed; Justice Minister calls for eased registration rules; Russia opposes U.N.’s Syria resolutions; Medvedev says election fuss won’t hurt the economy; Vanua...
June 21, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – June 21, 2011

TODAY: 44 killed in Karelia plane crash; Khodorkovsky’s whereabouts revealed; Justice Minister calls for eased registration rules; Russia opposes U.N.’s Syria resolutions; Medvedev says election fuss won’t hurt the economy; Vanua...
June 19, 2011

Yelena Bonner, 1923-2011

Activist, dissident, organizer, leader, moral voice, former political prisoner, widow of Andrei Sakharov, and all around lioness of human rights in Russia Yelena Bonner has regrettably passed away today at the age of 88. Only a few years ago, I ha...
June 19, 2011

Yelena Bonner, 1923-2011

Activist, dissident, organizer, leader, moral voice, former political prisoner, widow of Andrei Sakharov, and all around lioness of human rights in Russia Yelena Bonner has regrettably passed away today at the age of 88. Only a few years ago, I ha...
June 15, 2011

Crosstown Traffic

Julia Ioffe’s latest piece for Foreign Policy offers a microcosm of contemporary Russian social class tensions, corruption, elite insolence, and of courge, migalkas, the controversial private sirens given to more than 900 privileged motorist...