There’s quite a depressing but important piece published today by Varvara Pakhomenko and Alexander Mnatsakanian on OpenDemocracy on the rampant arrests, jailings, show trials, interrogation by torture, and disappearances that have become com...
TODAY: Medvedev outlaws pre-trial arrest for tax evasion suspects, fires another senior prison official in wake of Magnitsky report; Putin’s concerns that missile defense will jeopardize replacement START treaty rebuffed by the US; the Prime...
The news of the first independent report to examine the death of Hermitage lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who spent a year in prison without charges while being denied medical treatment, has shocked the Russian public and become a major matter of concen...
The following is a translation of an interview with Mikhail Khodorkovsky published in Sobesednik by Elena Skvortsova. The court – an appendage of the “vertical” – On December 3, Vladimir Putin spoke out about the YUKOS case...
TODAY: Official report condemns circumstances of Magnitsky death; Youtube policeman arrest warrant released; child laborers freed from sweatshop; Pikalyovo-style road blockers to face jail under new bill. Medvedev talks of reform. Tbil...
For some time now I’ve been following the interesting story of the Russian police major Alexei Dymovsky, who became an overnight internet celebrity last November after posting YouTube videos denouncing the plague of corruption within the cou...
This clip isn’t exactly new, but Mr. Zakaria adds some additional commentary, such as why there is such a renewed level of attention given to Russia’s role in the world, and whether they want to cooperate or “be a spoiler” ...
Greg White’s article in the Wall Street Journal today on the the Moscow Public Oversight Commission report on the death of Hermitage lawyer Sergei Magnitsky is essential reading. It is an absolutely devastating, criminal, and impossibl...
TODAY: Prison and police reform are on the cards, but critics wait for real results; Medvedev into alternative American bands; time to ban drinking and driving; touring Kiev, resetting with the US, memorial demolition and anti-Georgian sentiment. ...
I can not sit calmly and listen to the raptures of certain of my colleagues and even of certain human rights advocates on account of the declaration of the new director of the Federal Service for the Execution of Punishments (FSIN) of Russia [the ...
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