TODAY: Visa-free travel with Europe on the agenda; Medvedev and Putin have ‘same blood’; Akhipov to seek medical care abroad; uproar over United Russia consultant who has thus far escaped charges for killing a pedestrian with her car; ...
Vlast is a new documentary directed by Cathryn Collins about the trials of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the state’s destruction of the Yukos oil company, which is now showing as part of MOMA’s Documentary Fortnight 2010. Below is an ...
Over the past couple days we have been receiving several notices from the Association of Russian Human Rights Lawyers regarding the Feb. 15th hospitalization of Evgeny Arkhipov due to a suspected deliberate poisoning. Arkhipov is a familiar ...
TODAY: Kasparov on Russia’s lack of free speech; survey reveals that an increasing fear of hazing is putting Russians off the military; police reforms; Russia and US to speak on START treaty; Moscow falling out with Kyrgyz government over lo...
TODAY: Mironov’s dissent won him fan mail; Clinton wants Russia to work with NATO; new opposition party launched in Moscow; police accused of using slave labor; Abramovich to fine ill-behaved players; Medvedev calls for new weapons; Deputy P...
TODAY: Putin calls for evolution, not revolution; 4,000 protesters gather in Arkhangelsk; activist jailed for supporting YouTube policeman; Lavrov wants to revive the OSCE; Russia against Iran sanctions; illegal gambling and corruption; shooting r...
Masha Lipman writes in the Washington Post on the recent protests staged in Irkutsk and Kaliningrad (Grigory Pasko has also covered the Lake Baikal story here). Control over mass-audience television enables the Kremlin to keep undesirable informat...
TODAY: Russia to query Bulgaria on missile plans; UN report on Moscow’s secret prisons; Medvedev responds to public reaction over corrupt police; Stalin billboards divide the Duma; too late for green Sochi; gnome poster removed ahead of pres...
It’s been a pretty bad couple of months in corruption for the government of Dmitry Medvedev. They beat to death the journalist Popov, fake investigations were opened against the YouTube whistleblower Dymovsky, and Jamison Firestone is ...
La Russophobe has published a translation from the NGO Memorial, detailing a botched armed attack by the Russian military which had claimed the lives of at least four civilians who had gone out walking in a valley to pick wild garlic: On February ...
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