TODAY: Strategy 31 rally allowed more protesters; Berezovsky back in the news in connection with journalist’s death; Kasyanov on human rights; Economic Development Ministry acknowledges heatwave deaths; Kadyrov on his ‘idol’; Sob...
TODAY: Protesters gather to call for Putin’s ousting; Duma alters protest law; Moscow revokes permission for Strategy 31; gay rights activist sues human rights activist; Moldova conflict and soft power; Rasmussen still hopeful on NATO-Russia...
Procurator Lakhtin in the name of the entire UPG – united procuratorial group – demanded to deprive former head of YUKOS Mikhail Khodorkovsky and ex-executive of MFO “Menatep” Platon Lebedev of liberty for a term of 14 year...
Another example from the bruising world of Russian corporate governance, minority rights, and rule of law, illustrating why the stock market remains discounted by 40% below other emerging market rivals. From the Wall Street Journal: Things w...
TODAY: Sobyanin formally appointed, replaced by ‘margarine oligarch’; Strategy 31 protesters urge Moscow to allow more to gather; European Court of Human Rights rules on gay protests; Luzhkov turns on United Russia; Beketov misses tria...
TODAY: Krasnodar floods affect 6,000; Strategy 31 protests receive sanction for a 200-strong march; Russia gets low press freedom rating; Sobyanin to be voted in today, Luzhkov begins university lecturing; negative similarities with Ukraine, Chech...
Reports are coming in from Mikhail Kasyanov’s visit to Washington. Below is from Fred Hiatt of the Washington Post: Kasyanov, himself a former prime minister, dropped by The Post on Monday — the same day, as it happens, that Russ...
TODAY: Medvedev to attend NATO summit, ‘worried’ about missile shield; US says end in sight for WTO membership; Chechnya death toll reaches 6, government promises compensation; Go Russia modernization movement; Army of People...
President of the RF Dmitry Medvedev has appointed Mikhail Fedotov as his advisor and chairman of the council under the head of state for contributing to the development of institutions of civil society and for human rights. As is known, the former...
Robert Dallek has a pretty entertaining piece in Foreign Policy on the three common historical myths which tend to lure American heads of state toward disaster, again and again. What’s interesting here is his argument that the ideology...
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