Anna Politkovskaya is perhaps Russia’s most famous victim of a suspected contract killer, but many murder cases and attacks on journalists are thought to be carried out by those acting on orders. And Russia’s thirst for contract ...
TODAY: Medvedev’s rights council says Magnitsky charges were fabricated; Solidarity calls for more protests; Lavrov in South Ossetia; Moscow economy rental prices jump; alcohol-related deaths; Bolshoi to reopen; Kaspersky’s son freed. ...
TODAY: Medvedev’s rights council says Magnitsky charges were fabricated; Solidarity calls for more protests; Lavrov in South Ossetia; Moscow economy rental prices jump; alcohol-related deaths; Bolshoi to reopen; Kaspersky’s son freed. ...
Norman Stone, in his recent history of Cold War, tells how British academic Phillip Windsor remarked upon seeing the fall of the Berlin Wall on the television that it was an end of an empire. When his companion asked whether he meant the Soviet on...
If the thought of President Dmitry Medvedev rocking out to 90s pop hits sets your pulse racing, then look away now, because the actual video is beyond your imagination’s very wildest, and may push you over the edge. The video, slyly ca...
If the thought of President Dmitry Medvedev rocking out to 90s pop hits sets your pulse racing, then look away now, because the actual video is beyond your imagination’s very wildest, and may push you over the edge. The video, slyly ca...
Yesterday saw Vladimir Putin give his final annual report to the State Duma before next year’s presidential elections, and his emphasis on stability and long-term investment in key areas such as defense and infrastructure has led to most com...
TODAY: Putin delivers annual report; official dampens hopes of visa-free travel with U.S.; migration official sacked; journalist arrested for extortion; music critic fined, faces jail; police investigate illegal felling of Moscow birch trees; warm...
TODAY: Putin delivers annual report; official dampens hopes of visa-free travel with U.S.; migration official sacked; journalist arrested for extortion; music critic fined, faces jail; police investigate illegal felling of Moscow birch trees; warm...
Jamison Firestone, a lawyer for Hermitage Capital Management and former employer of murdered lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, has a powerful piece published in Foreign Policy today. When I opened my law firm, Firestone Duncan, in Moscow in 1993, I was awa...
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