Russia

February 1, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Feb 1, 2010

TODAY: Thousands of protesters rally in Kaliningrad; activists arrested in Moscow; Yukos case in the press; Russia has the immigration service to thank for its demographic increase; opposition newspaper beset by cyberattacks; turbulent times in Da...
January 29, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Jan 29, 2010

TODAY: First meeting of the Russia-US Civil Society Working Group; Khodorkovsky on corruption. Senior police says Politkovskaya killers will be brought to justice; rights official condemns Rechnik methods. Rosoboronexport defends right to sel...
January 28, 2010

Mikhail Khodorkovsky: A Time and a Place for Russia

Mikhail Khodorkovsky has published an opinion article in the International Herald Tribune / New York Times today.  Below is an excerpt: How does a corrupt raw materials-based Russia influence the West today? What new challenges and threats wi...
January 28, 2010

Russia’s Journalism Crisis

Today I received an email from Adam Federman, who just published a very thought provoking article in the Columbia Journalism Review taking a look the evolution of print media in Russia since the fall of communism to the rise of Putinism.  I t...
January 28, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Jan 28, 2010

TODAY: Russia detainees attract unwanted UN attention; corruption monitoring; fight for right to assembly in court.  Increase in economic crimes; drop in hate crimes.  Russia and NATO increase cooperation in Afghanistan; START almost com...
January 27, 2010

The Stalin Brand Expands to Soft Drinks

Today the Joseph Stalin cottage industry just welcomed another product to join the cell phones, fashion trends, revisionist school textbooks, and the advertising craze. That’s right, now you can enjoy a tasty new fizzy beverage bearing the f...
January 27, 2010

Video: Stratfor on the Nagorno-Karabakh Dispute

Over the past week, Russia has hosted talks to resolve the Armenian-Azeri dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh frozen conflict.  The Kremlin’s diplomatic efforts in this area have not always been so successful.  Below is a short video...
January 27, 2010

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Jan 27, 2010

TODAY: Commission suggests eradication of preliminary voting; corruption in army proves costly; Rechnik residents aren’t giving up the fight.  NATO-Russia meeting signifies first breakthrough since 2008; Libya looking to buy jets; Novay...
January 26, 2010

Grigory Pasko: Russia’s Police Become Touchable

Recently President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the firing of Viktor Grechman, a police Major-General of the Tomsk Oblast. Serving as the motive for this, as is not difficult to guess, was the murder of local journalist Konstantin Popov, who passed awa...