Sergey Kochkin from Orenburg writes: “Hello Grigory! I ask you to help. The essence of the problem is in the following: around our village of Kubanka of Perevolotsky rayon of Orenburg oblast are found many wells of the Orenburgneft company, ...
A Good Treaty has summarized an interesting exchange on Echo Moskvy featuring the polittechnologists Gleb Pavlovsky and Marat Gelman, discussing Vladimir Putin’s most recent macho, potty-talk interview with Andrey Kolesnikov of Kommersant (i...
Der Spiegel has an article today profiling two important players in the Russian blogosphere – Rustem Adagamov (Drugoi) and Robert Schlegel of the Nashi, and how they are squaring off in the struggle over web censorship. It seems hard t...
TODAY: Dozens of Strategy 31 protesters detained in Moscow; EU officials criticize handling of rally; middle classes not interested in investigative reporting, says journalist; FSB declares leaders’ incomes; Latynina blames Communists for ba...
Interesting article by Susan Richards in the Guardian’s Comment is Free calling for more international support to Russia’s protesters, implying an end to the “Faustian pact with Putin, over energy (in Europe) and the “war a...
My 12-year-old son loves to draw. Favorite subjects at different times have been Harry Potter, Spider-Man, anime, and much more. For some reason he never drew Putin, nor Medvedev either. And their wives with dogs and doves he also did not draw. I ...
Russia-watchers are no doubt aware of the recent arrest of my good friend Lev Ponomarev. Lev is one of the leading lights of the Russian human rights movement, part of the original perestroika-era generation of human rights advocates whose courage...
TODAY: Pomonaryov imprisonment draws attention; Putin on unsanctioned protests, backs Khimki preservation; Emergency Situations Ministry applauds itself for handling fires; religious icon to provide ‘moral support’; skinhead attack at ...
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