From Reuters: “We believe the reply will be effective and powerful enough to show these shameful, terrible people that … when the hand of an enemy is lifted against our lives, we are able to defend our citizens,” Patriarch Kirill...
This editorial in the Financial Times argues that despite facing the expected opposition, President Dmitry Medvedev should leap upon the opportunity of the death of Sergei Magnitsky to make serious reforms to both prison conditions and the functio...
As it was so eloquently stated in the leader of Friday’s Economist, President Barack Obama is becoming known as a guy who is easy to push around in terms of foreign policy. The Kremlin has been given quite a few concessions – mos...
A suspected terrorist attack occurred in Russia this weekend, as a homemade explosive device caused a train to derail, killing about 25 and injuring scores of other. It has been many years since such a high profile, reprehensible terror inci...
In most modern industrialized countries there is a shortlist of newspapers that, according to general consensus, belong in a top tier of journalistic excellence. In France until recently I would have placed both Le Monde and Le Figaro in the short...
Perhaps expecting some respite from weeks of having his public image battered both in media and in the polls, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived to France this week to do some business for Gazprom (roping in EDF for 10% of South Stream)...
TODAY: Police force under fire as new story of police violence emerges; government-sponsored TV ‘hampering democracy’, Belykh running Kirov, law permits bullying of NGOs, Samizdat listed as ‘extremist’, blogger sentenced to...
Right on the heels of an important feature published in the New York Times Magazine, the largest daily newspaper of France, Le Monde, has made the Khodorkovsky trial a front page headline, and additionally included an editorial on France-Russia re...
Just yesterday the Interior Ministry held a provocative press conference on the Hermitage and Sergei Magnitsky matter, denying they had any knowledge of his untreated illness. It prompted a press release response from Browder’s people ...
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