The beginning of Anna Badhken’s new article in the Boston Globe comparing the Chechen and Iran conflicts is effusively naively in thinking that Russia’s problems in the Caucasus have been solved, nevertheless the discussion merits some...
Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov’s plans to commission a vast series of street posters of Josef Stalin for the May V-Day parade has raised a lot of controversy, not least even statements from United Russia and the Public Chamber that he should canc...
It’s not particularly surprising to me that Boris Berezovsky won his libel lawsuit against RTR for airing a program accusing him of the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. What is more surprising is this brief note in the FT’s covera...
TODAY: Medvedev calls for LUKoil crash investigation; police force apologizes over human shield incident; Daghestan calls for dismissal of top investigator; Medvedev to form new political party? Protests across Russia as utility prices rise; Berez...
TODAY: Swedish Prime Minister in Moscow visit; Medvedev on expanding information presence of CIS states; police to receive moral and psychological support as more misconduct stories break; the failure of the four I’s; rock veteran criticizes...
Personal circumstances of an “overwhelming force” was how leader of the Kaliningrad oppositioneers Konstantin Doroshok recently explained his exit from the «Solidarity» movement. Certain political scientists decoded this exit in their ...
Writing in the Moscow Times, Alexei Bayer doesn’t believe that the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi are going to go very well, and not because the developers won’t be able to finish all the buildings and infrastructure. “...
Some of the family of the murdered former FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko have been having a very tough time in their temporarily adopted home of Italy, where police have raided and shut down their business, asylum papers blocked, and other harassm...
Blogging at the Power Vertical, Brian Whitmore takes a look at Russia’s pokazukha (fake) liberalization. It’s a bit ironic that Putin and his team, who clearly favor a Yury Andropov-style authoritarian modernization, are now being forc...
TODAY: NATO optimistic on Russia’s warships; clergy department to oversee prisons; Putin accuses officials of misspending Olympic funds; Kovalyov interview; Zhukovsky protest; regional elections; Litvinenko’s father alleges persecution...
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