Russia’s vast, beautiful woodlands are indeed a national treasure, symbolizing the rugged solitude and simple happiness of the collective imagination. Like in Leonid Filatov’s fairy tale of Fedot the Archer, we all dream of getti...
From an article in the Canadian magazine Macleans: For Medvedev, freeing Khodorkovsky, currently imprisoned in a Siberian work camp, could have signalled the fundamental philosophical and political shift he says he is committed to making. It could...
We have been noticing quite a lot of news stories on the influx of heroin from Afghanistan into Russia in recent months, and the debate over the state’s policies to treat addiction. There seems to some level of debate over whether or n...
Almost exactly two years ago we released a series of videos leaked to us by Lev Ponomarev and others on YouTube documenting the range of human rights abuses in Russian prisons (one of the videos was even removed temporarily by the censors, a story...
Writing in Foreign Affairs, David C. Engerman argues that more resources need to be dedicated to developing strong academic programs in Middle East Studies, as they once were for Sovietology. The interesting aspect of the article for this au...
TODAY: Perm death toll rises, ministers seek to blame officials; Putin on Magnitsky: ‘the lawyer’; Jehovah’s Witnesses halted; pensioners demonstrate over axing of cheap travel; rail bombing unearths broad issues; art and identit...
There’s a slightly worrying report today in the Wall Street Journal of Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin saying that Russia is a “weak link” in global capital markets while discussing the country’s plans to issue its first Eur...
Cloud seeding, the practice of dousing the clouds with chemicals from fighter jets to change the weather, really seems to be in vogue. I remember first hearing about it during the Beijing Olympics, as the authorities sought to ensure a few w...
Coming ahead of Human Rights Day, Amnesty International has a press release demanding the Russian government to put a stop to the persecution of activitists over the number of months, referring to Alexei Sokolov, Oleg Orlov, and many others: On 31...
“The support of the press is imperative to the nature-protection agencies,” said Alexander Malyshevsky, Chairman of the Public Council Under the Federal Service for Oversight in the Sphere of Nature Use, quoted by lenizdat.ru during a ...
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