TODAY: Communist Party asks Russia to hold the criticism on Stalin’s birthday, 30% of Russians would like a similar leader today, says VTsIOM; Moscow Mayor takes on the snow; Russia to revise its stance on Protocol 14? UN wants more Russian ...
The Public Chamber of Tomsk Oblast is proposing for broad discussion a project under the name of «Code of the Tomich» [A “Tomich” is an inhabitant of Tomsk in Russian–Trans.] You can acquaint yourself with the text of the code on...
Most readers of this site probably caught that news over the weekend that the Georgian government demolished a 150-foot high Soviet era memorial honoring soldiers who served in the Great Patriotic War. Not only did they demolish it to clear ...
How cool is Putin? Not only has the guy been running Russia for more than a decade and probably into the foreseeable future, he also shoots tigers, goes topless horseback riding, is rumored to have a gorgeous gymnast girlfriend, is best frie...
The author and project leader of ArcticNet, Michael Byers, has an optimistic piece published in the Globe and Mail today arguing for a renewed effort of cooperation between the Canadian and Russian governments on mutual recognition of arctic sover...
TODAY: Russia to control names of non-profit-organizations; Putin offers services to national judo team; no new START treaty until February; Medvedev as Robin Hood?; Stalin’s grandson sues radio station; Perm death toll up; Gaidar funeral.&n...
Writing at Time Magazine, Carl Schreck, a journalist we usually see writing at the National, has a piece on the proliferation of corporate raiding by government agencies and the private groups which control them – filling the jails with busi...
Mikhail Zygar has an interesting piece openDemocracy on the Russian government’s moves to monitor, control, and at times censor information published on the internet … a task that turns out to be much harder that the Kremlin’s ta...
Cathy Young has a good piece today in the Boston Herald on the Sakharov prize being awarded to the Russian human rights group Memorial: The treatment of Sakharov’s legacy in Russia today brings to mind the adage that there is no prophet in h...
I don’t have the slightest grounds to love Tokyo. That’s certain courts that for some reason liked a story concocted by the FSB about how I – am a Japanese spy. But the Japanese officially repudiated all court decisions relative ...
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