TODAY: Russia’s ambassador to Ukraine lands in Kiev; was Putin an unexpected guest at the State Council meeting? Psychological tests for cops. START talks to resume; Lavrov on Nagorny Karabakh progress; Russia to throw curve ball at UN...
Garry Kasparov has an interesting article in the New York Review of Books this week. It is particularly unique, because it makes no mention of Russia, politics, or Putin, but instead pontificates on another matter – chess and artificia...
The Washington Post is running an editorial about Sec. of State Hillary Clinton’s speech on internet freedom, which is seen as at risk of invention from authoritarian governments in China and Russia. While everyone is focused on the Go...
Human Rights Watch has published a press release praising the decision by Russia to ratify a reform to the European Court of Human Rights, Protocol 14. Others say not to take it at face value. From HRW: “This is a long-awaited and posi...
Viktor Shenderovich, the famous Russian satirist and creator of “Kukly” political puppet show, attended the literary award ceremony for the Khodorkovsky-Ulitskaya letters, and comments on this unique meeting of minds from such differen...
TODAY: Putin warns against reforms of political system; Medvedev defends election results; Yeltsin’s daughter taking on Putin in blogosphere? North Caucasus job creation strategy; Tatarstan’s veteran leader to step down when mand...
Just some odds and ends I have come across this week, united by a common theme. Vladimir Putin, upon hearing calls for officials to examine complaints on the Internet about vote rigging in the recent regional elections: “On the Internet 50 p...
We reported here yesterday that the youth movement leader Oleg Kozlovsky was being persecuted by the Russian FSB, and had had his passport renewal application withheld for spurious reasons (he had previously been forcibly conscripted to the army d...
Well we all know that the process currently unraveling in the Khamovnichesky Courthouse in Moscow against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev is just the latest time-honored performance of a classic Russian show trial, the satirical cartoon be...
Writing in the Moscow Times, Nikolai Petrov comments on Alexander Khloponin’s new job as the presidential envoy to the North Caucasus, one of the worst jobs imaginable. So this is clearly one of the best and brightest in the Russian go...
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