TODAY: Journalists demand full investigation into beating of Oleg Kashin, who is still in critical condition; Medvedev vetoes protest bill; Communist demonstration draws 4,000, veterans protest against Serdyukov; census shows population drop; FT w...
Peter Baker at the New York Times picks up on the threat posed to the Obama Administration’s warming relations with Russia as a result of the elections this week. If he fails to win approval before the old Senate adjourns, Mr. Obama’s ...
Following a brief visit to Moscow, Jeff Bercovici of Forbes politely asks why Russian journalists continually face worse and worse conditions, with an emphasis on the recent savage attack on Oleg Kashin of Kommersant. The journalists I met, both t...
We’ve written in the past about the unfortunate dearth of political satire in Putin’s Russia, with wise-cracking puppets and acerbic cartoons pushed to the margins, leaving pathetically lame and unfunny animatronics in their place.&nbs...
Writing in the Financial Times, Charles Glover has a must-read article on the deepening viciousness of corruption in Russia, where the most dangerous thing that someone can do is go public and announce their victimhood. In particular, Glover...
From this NPR story, a glimpse into the daily machinations of Russia’s ruling party: Based in Saratov, Sergei Pochechuyev worked for United Russia as a political consultant until he broke ranks in 2008. He has written a book describing how t...
TODAY: Other Russia members face extremism charges; Russia rejects Japan warning over Kuril trips; Russia sees Republican Party as ‘dark force’, Clinton says START will pass; calls for Khodorkovsky acquittal; UN permits Russia’s ...
Paul J. Saunders writes about the difficulties Washington will face in convincing Georgia to go along with Russia’s ascension to the World Trade Organization. In the narrow sense, Russia needs to be a WTO member more than America needs Russi...
In his final words before the court, Mikhail Khodorkovsky stated: “I want for the court in my country to become independent, so we would not leave the traces of totalitarianism as an inheritance for our children and grandchildren. Everybody ...
Somehow I missed this interesting review by Max Boot of C.J. Chivers’ book on the Kalashnikov rifle, the only gun in history to be included on a country’s flag (Mozambique) and even home furnishings. What made the Kalashnikov the winne...
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