Probably the best description of Vladimir Putin’s gangsta roll in public speaking events comes via Julia Ioffe: Vladimir Putin spoke at the the Russia Calling! investment forum organized by state-owned VTB bank today. It was awesome. Here...
We still think that it is unlikely that Viktor Bout will ever make it over to the United States, but this latest dismissal of the second set of charges leaves his legal team with fewer strategic options to prevent extradition (it says a lot about ...
Steve LeVine has a new comment on Vladimir Putin’s charm offensive, reacting a slew of articles which have come out recently speculating that the Prime Minister has no interest in returning to the presidency, and that Dmitry Medvedev has est...
Blogging over at Index on Censorship, Grigory Pasko takes a look at the recent journalistic efforts of former Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov to take part in the media war between him and the president. Luzhkov-the-journalist also managed to bring up th...
Tanya Lokshina of Human Rights Watch has filed an important and compelling report on the increasing presence of morality enforcers in Ramzan Kadryov’s Chechnya, who place extreme pressure upon local and visiting women to wear headscarves. Th...
Russia’s Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin was not at all pleased to see the country’s foreign reserves dwindle during the 2008 crisis down to some $40 billion. Now that the economy (and oil prices) have picked up, the Ministry is l...
Members of the U.S. Congress have proposed legislation designed to specifically punish Russian officials accused of having orchestrated and benefited from the murder by medical blackmail of Hermitage lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. This could be an...
Of course it’s good to see this news today that the Investigative Committee has responded to repeated complaints and reopened several cases into murdered journalists – of course it would also be good to know why the cases were closed i...
These are some good observations from Timothy Colton on RIA Novosti: But if the affair was all about corruption, why strike against him now — Luzhkov has been mayor since 1992 and Inteko was founded in 1991 — and why single out Luzhkov...
Writing in the Guardian, Alexey Kovalev has a great political postmortem of Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, which although insightful and entertaining, refrains from the ceaseless prognostications currently dominating the press. It’s a relief. And...
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