The strange swap, which was not prescribed by any laws, of Russian wannabe spies for three (it is unclear whose exactly) spies and one person who doesn’t belong in THIS company at all ended the devil knows how for this last person: the state...
Funny that this is the headline, as most people were led to believe the opposite following the firing of the mayor. When in doubt, pull the terrorism card. More at The Moscow Times.
I wanted to highlight one item mentioned in today’s newsblast. Over the past number of weeks, especially in the wake of Yuri Luzhkov’s ouster, the media has built up a perception of a false dichotomy between Vladimir Putin and Dmitry M...
When I started this blog back in September of 2006, things were pretty different then in Russia. It was about a year after I had been expelled from Russia under vague threat of arrest, back when most of us who were vocally opposed to the policies...
TODAY: 4 year anniversary of Anna Politkovskaya’s death sees investigation extended; Putin’s birthday; Resin fast-tracked into United Russia, may stay in office; Luzkhov comments on his dismissal; human rights council advises on police...
The Russia Monitor has a good one on a Putin-Medvedev photo shoot gone awry – provoking debates over how the president got himself such an insanely expensive (and foreign produced) stereo system. So is the Russian blogosphere talking about t...
OpenDemocracy has an interesting piece by Mikhail Zakharov of polit.ru, which takes a look at the Medvedev-Lukashenko spat – noting that the Kremlin is giving the President of Belarus much of the same treatment received by Viktor Yushchenko ...
TODAY: Mitvol ‘illegally’ dismissed; Luzkhov given new university appointment, Muscovites approve his mayoral dismissal. Mitrokhin detained for protesting highway; Moscow’s poor alimony record; fortuneteller adverts to be b...
A couple of days ago I accidentally bumped into an acolyte of the GULAG, or, in more contemporary parlance – FSIN (the Federal Service for the Execution of Punishment). He’s been serving there for a long time, such an impression –...
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