The lawyer Jamison Firestone, a founding partner of Firestone Duncan and former employer of the Hermitage lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, has an article in the Moscow Times pointing out that the firing of 20 prison officials is just a distraction from th...
Bloomberg has some interesting quotes from Oleg Orlov, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, and Sergei Kovalyov on the sidelines of a conference commemorating the 20th anniversary of Andrei Sakharov’s death. Some of today’s human rights activists...
TODAY: Medvedev fires prison officials connected with Sergei Magnitsky’s death; imposters cash in on Perm investigations; Medvedev’s European-Atlantic security body, NATO, what does failed missile test say about Russia’s defense ...
Here goes a comment reported in the Wall Street Journal on the firing of 20 top prison officials: The sackings fall short, however, of the broader inquiry into alleged police and judicial corruption that Mr. Magnitsky’s former colleagues hav...
Did I find this wonderful quote myself? No way! From The Atlantic via The Weekly Standard via the Associated Press. I’m full of link love today. Photographs and amateur video footage of the bluish-white in the Norwegian ski...
Sergei Magnitsky was a Russian lawyer for Hermitage Capital Management who was tortured and murdered through medical blackmail while held in prison, never convicted of a crime. He was not given the medicines and treatment he needed to live b...
Today I see the news that they have sentenced a policeman who murdered the journalist Magomed Yevloyev to two years in jail for the killing. I hate to sound like a broken record, but isn’t a two year sentence for blowing a guy’s ...
TODAY: Putin calls for sanctions on Perm officials as death toll continues to rise; military officers dismissed over hazing; ‘UFO’ is failed Russian missile test; opinion polls up and down over Putin; Belarus and Russia in ’emoti...
Global Finance Magazine has just released its annual league table of the biggest emerging market banks ranked by total assets. Russia’s entries: 8. Sberbank 19. VTB Bank 39. Gazprombank 111. Bank of Moscow 113. Alfa Bank 124. Russian Agricul...
TODAY: Perm administration resigns as death toll rises to 128; Medvedev warns journalists about how to tell the truth; Russia blocking European Court of Human Rights reforms; Medvedev to be given authority over deploying troops?; START treaty almo...
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