Russia

April 1, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – April 1, 2011

TODAY: Strategy 31 protests see 150 arrested in Moscow and St Petersburg including opposition leaders, U.S. concerned; troops to be posted in Arctic; banned spying devices could include mobile phones; supercomputer to monitor bloggers; strangeness...
March 31, 2011

Grigory Pasko: Russia’s Brain Drain

It would seem I had already become accustomed to the notion that there is practically not one single corner of the earth left where you can’t find a Russian person. From Australia to Iceland, from Brazil to Japan, we are everywhere, sometime...
March 31, 2011

Russian Week Against Homophobia

The Russian LGBT Network has announced that this week is the fifth annual Russian Week Against Homophobia.  Unfortunate timing, then, for United Russia and five of Russia’s other, major registered political parties to have shunned a rou...
March 31, 2011

Russian Week Against Homophobia

The Russian LGBT Network has announced that this week is the fifth annual Russian Week Against Homophobia.  Unfortunate timing, then, for United Russia and five of Russia’s other, major registered political parties to have shunned a rou...
March 31, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – March 31, 2011

TODAY: Strategy 31 organizers to turn sights to United Russia; organization raided by police ahead of protests today; new opposition report on corruption; debating the independence of the revived Moscow News; HIV figures rise; Council of Europe to...
March 30, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – March 30, 2011

TODAY: Putin supporter given United Russia seat; Strategy 31 to set new target; EU-Russia Civil Society Forum inaugurated; Medvedev warns terrorists, Umarov not killed in strike; Russia not invited to Libya meeting; radioactive iodine found in Rus...
March 29, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – March 29, 2011

TODAY: Moskovskiye Novosti relaunches; CEC head re-elected; United Russia loses in Berdsk, but not in Tambov; Strategy 31 protests to end; opposition report on corruption; third presidential candidate? Khodorkovsky judge aide resigns; Lavrov ups L...
March 29, 2011

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – March 29, 2011

TODAY: Moskovskiye Novosti relaunches; CEC head re-elected; United Russia loses in Berdsk, but not in Tambov; Strategy 31 protests to end; opposition report on corruption; third presidential candidate? Khodorkovsky judge aide resigns; Lavrov ups L...
March 28, 2011

The Assange of Russia

Aleksei Navalny’s star is rising, if this New York Times profile is anything to go by.  Navalny’s anti-corruption website, exposing the corrupt practices of Russia’s fattest contractors, drew the attention of Vladimir Putin ...
March 28, 2011

The Assange of Russia

Aleksei Navalny’s star is rising, if this New York Times profile is anything to go by.  Navalny’s anti-corruption website, exposing the corrupt practices of Russia’s fattest contractors, drew the attention of Vladimir Putin ...