In an attempt to get 2011 off to a good start with more active personal blogging, I thought I would share a few links of articles that I’m reading today. If you happen to be one of the handful of people out there still looking for Russ...
In a week that has been jam-packed with news and opinion on the meaning of the guilty verdict and harsh sentence handed down to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, I am struck by the extraordinary clarity of these latest events. There have been few other ...
We all remember that once upon a time Bush-the-younger gazed into the Vladimir Putin’s soul and saw a democrat. Joe Biden, on the contrary, saw three letters in Putin’s eyes – KGB. Schroeder, being chancellor of Germany, called P...
I think I have made my own perspectives on the verdict and sentence handed down to Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev abundantly clear in a variety of interviews. However today’s news of the almost maximum sentence of 14 years (si...
On 21 December, the case of a certain S.Antonov was being examined in the court of the Central district of Minsk. According to the police report, he had participated in an unsanctioned action and had been shouting out anti-state slogans. Если Вы х...
Julia Ioffe’s latest article on Facebook in Russia hits upon the confusing – and perhaps brilliant – strategy by the Russian leadership to tightly contain print media and live civic activism, but at the same time let the internet...
It seems that every couple of months we are treated to more news of Russian spies being identified and deported from various countries, signifying either that Russian spies have become remarkably inept, or, more likely, it’s a sign of sheer ...
Kudos to Clifford J. Levy at the Times for doing a big report this week on the preposterously offensive trial launched against Oleg Orlov of Memorial in relation to his accusation of Ramzan Kadyrov’s alleged role in the killing of human righ...
The Washington Post has a commentary on its editorial page today with regard to the White House statement on the Khodorkovsky trial, which they view as a good first step, but long overdue and less than sufficient to produce change. Also see ...
Today a court in Moscow began reading out the guilty verdict for Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, arduously plodding through the paperwork that somehow legalizes the state’s crime against the individual, while making the fantastical ...
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