Simon Schuster has an interesting article in TIME about the Surkov-McFaul committee on human rights recently held in Vladimir. But some of the Russian activists who participated came away feeling let down, more by Surkov’s intransigence than...
You know what’s really annoying? When you want to arrest some protesters but then the courts get in the way and you actually have to go through the trouble of inventing some charges against them. It’s much easier just to sk...
TODAY: Another Hermitage lawyer under attack; United Russia quashes Duma discussion of Monday’s protests; opposition suggest Speaker’s Corner for Moscow; Duma will not castigate no show deputies. Ukraine agrees on no to NATO: military ...
TODAY: EU to consider visa relaxation, but fast resolution unlikely; Shuvalov acknowledges bribery problem; commemoration for victims of a Soviet protest rally crackdown. Medvedev optimistic on birth rate rise; FSB reports on terrorist...
On Victory Day this year, active duty U.S. soldiers were invited to march through Red Square for the first time in history … does this signal a willingness on behalf of Moscow to entertain discussions about NATO ascension? Is such a co...
Everybody here seems to be talking about the video appeal of the not-yet-fully-imprisoned businessman to the man sitting in the president’s chair. Yevgeny Chichvarkin, a multi-millionaire businessman and founder of a mobile phone company Yev...
TODAY: Opposition attack police rally response, journalist’s arm broken after beating; International Children’s Day St Petersburg protests; United Russia’s drive to protect young minds; Orthodox Church calls for strict abortion c...
The leadership of the Russian Federation is all too often willing to openly identify the United States and NATO as its #1 enemy in leaked (on purpose, of course) security doctrines. The idea that NATO actually has coherent plans to harm Russ...
By almost any account, the Russian opposition is fragmented, persecuted, and poorly organized. Why, then, does the Kremlin leadership put so much energy into quashing their occasional marches of a few hundred people with such brutality and i...
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