TODAY: May 31st freedom to assemble rally broken up; Putin’s apparent support for right to protest scrutinized; as is recent exchange with anti-Kremlinite musician Yury Shevchuk. EU-Russia summit begins; Russia recruits human rights la...
TODAY: Putin confronted about human rights by rock singer activist; migalka protest accelerating; gay pride parade held with no detention due to cat-and-mouse strategy; vigilantes target corrupt policemen; teenagers miss exams due to deputy’...
TODAY: Journalist’s children taken over Avtovaz article; prison visit for US and Russia delegates; Amnesty International recommends ICC for Russia. Lavrov rebuffs Iran criticisms; British Council refuses to take part in Nashi youth cam...
Former President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel, issues an op/ed on the disturbingly long string of high-profile murder victims in Russia, including Eduard Chuvashov, Stanislav Markelov, Natalya Estemirova, Maksharip Aushev, and Ivan Khutorsk...
It shouldn’t come as an enormous surprise that an editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal is slamming President Barack Obama’s reset policy with Russia, nor is the attack entirely undeserved: When the Obama Administration last w...
Blogging at the New York Review of Books, Timothy Snyder has a very interesting piece on the tectonic shift taking place in Ukraine ever since the government of Viktor Yanukovych took over, including a return to past tactics of intimidation by the...
TODAY: Amnesty disappointed in Medvedev’s human rights stance; EU questions Russia over Magnitksy; detention rules to be changed for ill suspects? Crack down on bribe booty. Russia-Iran spat escalates over Kremlin’s sanctio...
Below, the much discussed and quite funny leaked video displaying the woefully low attendance in the Duma, and several representatives running around from seat to seat pressing the vote buttons. The cleverness of REN TV gives me hope that Ru...
And I’ll bet you would never guess who: “We do not like to see our neighbor supporting those who have shown animosity to us for 30 years. (….) If I was in the place of Russian officials, I would adopt a more careful stance....
New kompromat clips against opposition politicians and public figures, often depicting particularly sordid situations, have become all the rage on the Russian internet in recent months. The politician Ilya Yashin, who has been lured into the honey...
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