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...
The Financial Times is running a Russia supplement tomorrow, with a number of interesting articles, including the following bit from Leyla Boulton on the climate of fear and theft survived by businesses working in Russia. I’ve noticed ...
The assassination of Col. Yuri Budanov, who was convicted of the brutal rape and strangling of the 18-year-old Chechen girl named Elza Kungaeva, has prompted feverish debate in Russia, including no small amount of hate speech and calls to violence...
The assassination of Col. Yuri Budanov, who was convicted of the brutal rape and strangling of the 18-year-old Chechen girl named Elza Kungaeva, has prompted feverish debate in Russia, including no small amount of hate speech and calls to violence...
Oh, the excitement and intrigue of Russian politics in election season … high-powered advisers are getting canned, officials demoted, fake parties are dissolved and replaced with different fake parties, while famous oligarchs are disappointi...
Oh, the excitement and intrigue of Russian politics in election season … high-powered advisers are getting canned, officials demoted, fake parties are dissolved and replaced with different fake parties, while famous oligarchs are disappointi...
TODAY: Suspect charged with Politkovskaya murder; Medvedev meets Berlusconi and Biden in Rome; Russia as Libya mediator; Putin pledges support for Abkhazia; ongoing blasts at arms depot, 12,000 evacuated; drugs and H.I.V.; European red tape; veter...
TODAY: Navalny anticipates revolt; Serdyukov assures students on conscription; Lib Dem bill would put cameras in pretrial detention; gay rights protester attack investigated; All-Russia People’s Front gathers momentum; U.S. releases arsenal ...
TODAY: Navalny anticipates revolt; Serdyukov assures students on conscription; Lib Dem bill would put cameras in pretrial detention; gay rights protester attack investigated; All-Russia People’s Front gathers momentum; U.S. releases arsenal ...
In case you missed it, Karinna Moskalenko spoke to the BBC yesterday about the European Court of Human Rights’ ruling on her client’s case (click for video). ‘We are really happy to have this judgement today. We regis...
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