Over the years on this blog we have dedicated considerable coverage to what we perceive as a war against lawyers occurring in Russia, ranging from Boris Kuznetsov, to the jailing of Svetlana Bakhmina, the medical blackmail of Vasily Aleksanyan, th...
One of the biggest stars from Russia at this year’s Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver has been the figure skater Evgeni Plushenko. Not only is Plushenko a gifted competitor and the defending gold medalist, he’s also leading the w...
TODAY: Russia and Abkhazia to build military base, build economic ties; activist’s children taken away; Stalin information booths to be set up in Moscow; modernization to turn to the church? Russian wins Olympic gold, thanks priest; Uk...
Here is one way to get positive action out of Russia on Iran, shortly following Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Moscow. From Tony Halpin in the Times: There were suggestions that the Kremlin may have agreed to block the S-300 sale to Ira...
Writing in the London Review of Books, New York author, editor, and literati-at-large Keith Gessen reviews Richard Sakwa’s book on the Yukos affair and the two trials of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, sketching a rather comprehensive portrait. ...
TODAY: Police force struggling with negative reputation; Novosibirsk mayor arrested; Abkhazia to host military base? Russia delays defense system delivery to Iran; no drinking water in Krasnokamsk; activist given German award; sources debate Yanuk...
Here is the second installment of our interview with Dr. Nina Khrushcheva of the New School in New York, which covers some different ground, including her recent book on Vladimir Nabokov, and her reaction to a recent incident of a disagreement amo...
It’s good to have a president. Even better – a blogger-president. A non-blogger wouldn’t have even noticed that agencies, in an attempt to complicate the search for information on a site, are changing Cyrillic letters to Latin on...
TODAY: Israeli prime minister praises Russia’s understanding of Iranian situation; nuclear nonproliferation; Russia to hold joint military exercises with Nicaragua; strange Russia Today; children confiscated over debts?; Justice Minister wei...
Nicholas Gvosdev has a new article here which discusses how U.S. interests will be impacted by the election of Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine, and what policies with Russia he is likely to pursue. He congratulates the Obama administration̵...
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