The fact that the Dec. 15th verdict of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev was delayed until Dec. 27, smack in between both Christmas holidays and the likely date that the majority of journalists and observers are away from Moscow on holiday, ...
Charles Glover has an extensively well researched and impressively well written report in the Financial Times Magazine on the transformation of nationalist and extremist hate groups in Russia into terrorist organizations, sometimes with the assist...
He dances, he sings, he pilots planes and submarines, but even hardened cynics don’t know what to make of Vladimir Putin’s recent performance as an environmental conservationist. In addition to hobnobbing with Leonardo DiCaprio t...
On Global Post, Miriam Elder has a good interview with rights activist Galina Kozhevnikova regarding the recent nationalist riot in Moscow. “There are few who understand what is happening,” said Galina Kozhevnikova, deputy head of the ...
Barring a likely delay or rescheduling, Judge Viktor Danilkin is due to begin reading the verdict in the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev on December 15. It’s no use waiting for an acquittal or even a very mild verdict...
By now you have probably already come across a number of shocking photos, videos, and news stories from the rioting ultra-nationalist football fans, who took over a memorial event for a murdered fan and turned it into one of the uglier displays of...
The Financial Times has a write up of a recent off-the-record conference in Moscow featuring the historian Richard Pipes, reflecting on the current state of Russia’s progressive opinion makers. Apparently the hot topic of conversation ...
The Russian government thinks that it’s just deplorable that Julian Assange is under arrest and charged with a crime, yet doesn’t blink to open a probe against the anti-corruption crusader Alexei Navalny. Come to think of it, the...
The recent mass murder in Krasnodar Krai of 12 people, including four children who were burned alive, has seized the attention of the country. It’s not the cruelty of the act which has raised such a fuss – horrific violence has b...
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