Russia

May 29, 2011

Protect Yourself from Russian Corruption

Very interesting interview with Alexei Navalny in the Los Angeles Times. Last November you made a report to the U.S. Helsinki Commission about corruption in Russia. What were your recommendations and what was the reaction? I said that U.S. authori...
May 27, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – May 27, 2011

TODAY: G8 Summit commences, missile defense stalemate, WTO accession, Libya; Saakashvili blames Russia for demonstrations; Yabloko leader arrested; Navalny sues over fraud case; Khodorkovsky cell-mate describes forced attack; Islamic Cultural Cent...
May 27, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – May 27, 2011

TODAY: G8 Summit commences, missile defense stalemate, WTO accession, Libya; Saakashvili blames Russia for demonstrations; Yabloko leader arrested; Navalny sues over fraud case; Khodorkovsky cell-mate describes forced attack; Islamic Cultural Cent...
May 26, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – May 26, 2011

TODAY: Activist’s wife facing drugs charges; independent newspaper shut down after supporting opposition candidate; Moscow says no to gay rights parade; United Russia remove posters; Duma intern fired for revealing session secrets; Khodorkov...
May 26, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – May 26, 2011

TODAY: Activist’s wife facing drugs charges; independent newspaper shut down after supporting opposition candidate; Moscow says no to gay rights parade; United Russia remove posters; Duma intern fired for revealing session secrets; Khodorkov...
May 25, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – May 25, 2011

TODAY: Khodorkovsky appeal rejected, international figures respond; Medvedev on extremism; Putin dismisses bureaucracy and registration for his People’s Front; protesters can look forward to ‘the Tornado’; Lavrov supports Palesti...
May 24, 2011

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Prisoner of Conscience

It was a long time coming.  Today, following the Moscow City Court’s pre-ordained decision to reject the appeal of Mikhail Khodorkovsky & Platon Lebedev, Amnesty International has come forward to declare the two men as Prisoners of ...
May 24, 2011

More of the Same in the Khodorkovsky Appeal Hearing

Business columnist Joe Nocera of the New York Times has published a very strong article on the elaborately rigged judicial procedure to send Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev back to the gulag of Krasnokamens, Siberia. In China, when the cou...
May 24, 2011

More of the Same in the Khodorkovsky Appeal Hearing

Business columnist Joe Nocera of the New York Times has published a very strong article on the elaborately rigged judicial procedure to send Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev back to the gulag of Krasnokamens, Siberia. In China, when the cou...
May 24, 2011

A Difference of Opinion

A few different approaches to the 2012 Presidential elections in the press today.   1) Shared power will continue.  Russia is moving towards a ‘managed pluralism‘, under which a two-party system will periodically exchange pow...