Russia

November 24, 2010

The Russia Today Arrests

Anyone who genuinely cares about freedom of expression and protecting the human rights of journalists should be outraged over the arrests this week in Georgia of journalist Kaelyn Forde and cameraman Jon Conway, employees of the state-owned cable ...
November 24, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Nov 24, 2010

TODAY: Lavrov warns of Korean peninsula’s ‘colossal danger’; motion to block Magnitsky officials to go to EU Parliament for vote; Nabiullina hopeful on WTO bid; Georgia wants reconciliation; Russia and Serbia, Russia and Belarus;...
November 23, 2010

Russia’s War on Human Rights?

What did Liu Xiaobo ever do to Moscow?  Apparently the Nobel Prize-winning Chinese dissident has somehow offended the leadership residing in the Kremlin, as Russia has made a show out of its refusal to attend the Nobel Prize ceremony, revivin...
November 23, 2010

Putin’s Illegal Flight

The Moscow News has summarized a recent blog posting by Alexei Navalny which has everybody buzzing.  Did Vladimir Putin pull his stunt flight to put out the wildfires without a pilot’s license?  Or did the actual plane never take o...
November 23, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Nov 23, 2010

TODAY: Medvedev in online session with citizens; Russia and US to consult on North Korean nuclear program; Nemtsov attacked on return to Moscow; Russia Today reporters arrested in US; Pamfilova to receive state honors; Kremlin stamps out Zorkin...
November 22, 2010

Grigory Pasko: A Complicated Award for a Russian Journalist

On Nov. 17, the Russian journalist and television producer Manana Aslamazyan was awarded the TEFI Prize «For personal contribution to the development of Russian television». The ceremony took place in Moscow on the exhibition grounds of the the Al...
November 22, 2010

Sechin or No Sechin Ties to Viktor Bout?

Tom Balmforth sorts out some speculations on the Viktor Bout-Igor Sechin nexus on the Moscow News.  Whether or not these fellows worked closely together, it’s hard not to observe some professional overlap. Many theories on Bout’s ...
November 22, 2010

The Individual, the State, and the Internet

I am loving this wide-ranging, meditative essay by Andrei Loshak posted on OpenSpace.ru as well as openDemocracy on civic movements within the Russian internet vs. the presence of the state. The wildfires were a demonstration that we and the state...
November 22, 2010

Business Risk in Russia

Sergey Matyunin, editor of the indispensable RussianLawOnline.com, has an article in The Moscow Times on the president’s proposed reforms to the Civil Code, which will raise minimum capital requirements for companies by 50 fold, thereby impa...