On Tuesday, Feb. 2, Robert Amsterdam participated in the forum panel “The Rule of Law in Russia” alongside human rights lawyer Karinna Moskalenko and Andrei Illarionov.
Here goes an unusually creative grassroots effort to raise awareness of the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. From the Moscow Times: Mikhail Khodorkovsky chocolate bars and coarse brown mittens that he could have knitted in prison were d...
From a posting published over on the Khodorkovsky & Lebedev Communications Center which argues that 10,000 people on the streets of Kaliningrad over the weekend is a notable development: So what is new here? During the transition between Vladi...
TODAY: Medvedev’s think-tank to press for return to Yeltsin-era policies? Kaliningrad protests have officials worried, reports say; Russia and US reach nuclear reduction agreement ‘in principle’; police rally round commander accu...
An unsanctioned rally – is the same kind of term as a juicy fact. Artificially thought up, pulled out of a hat by cowardly and dependent people. A rally can’t be sanctioned – according to the Constitution of the RF, it is sanctio...
TODAY: Police complain to Interior Ministry; US State Department and Human Rights Watch respond to weekend arrests; Patriarch Kirill completes his first year; Georgia’s Russian-language television station blames Russian censorship for proble...
In Ronald D. Asmus’s new book, he asserts that that Russia has been significantly damaged by its 2008 invasion of Georgia – a familiar argument. Writing in the New York Times, John Vinocur doesn’t believe that any costs hav...
It’s funny how with all these amazingly talented hackers in Russia (who have even crashed Facebook and Twitter), that it is never the Kremlin’s website which gets brought down, but rather Georgian bloggers, Estonian government, and oth...
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