In case there were any lingering doubts about where Ukrainian presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko stands on relations with Russia, here the Canadian Press cites her “firmest statements to date” made in a last minute pitch to chip a...
TODAY: Criminal case against rights advocate; whistleblower supporter detained; activists plan to go ahead with banned march. Kuzmin case dropped; changes rung in upper echelons of military; START coming soon apparently. Ukraine electi...
From an interview with Madeleine Albright in the FT: FT: Secretary Albright, you are now a business woman as well as everything else. What parts of the world are your clients most interested in right now as business opportunities? MA: Well, we are...
Writing in the Moscow Times, David Kramer of the German Marshall Fund gives some tips on how Washington should handle the Vladimir Putin-Dmitry Medvedev split. Beyond raining on Medvedev’s parade, Putin also seems intent on maintaining hardl...
TODAY: Tribute march for Markelov and Baburova denied; Russia continues to be ‘repressive’ according to civil rights watchdog; how Berdnikov gets his way. US Undersecretary of State in town for talks; Baluva tests to continue; su...
I first saw the news come across my alerts around the New Year that three men had been arrested by the Russian police for the attempted murder of the journalist John Helmer. The story was broken on Jan. 2 by a South African outlet called TIM...
Miriam Elder has published a colorfully detailed article which shows what it is like inside the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky on GlobalPost: The courtroom is wood panelled, and behind the judge’s table a large Russian flag is pinned t...
The New York Times has published a great profile article of the 82-year-old human rights leader Lyudmila Alexeyeva, who was most recently arrested on New Year’s Eve. She shares one thing in common with the ultra-nationalists and Stalin...
TODAY: Surprise clearing of opposition blogger; Russia’s stance on 14th protocol examined; migrant workers to gain legal standing? Middle-classes in no-man’s land. Rogozin and Gromov’s advice for NATO; START talks on-...
As Ambassador to NATO, it is Dmitry Rogozin’s assignment to be a bit rude, funny, and to make trouble – hence the regular personal insults his Twitter feed toward Anders Fogh Rasmussen as though the two were in high school. But I...
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