Voice of America has published an important piece on the death of Hermitage lawyer Sergei Magnitsky and the practice of medical blackmail in Russian prisons: Magnitsky developed problems with his pancreas and gall bladder as a result of what his A...
Yes, so, as always Lilia Shevtsova is basically awesome, and her latest piece in the Moscow Times makes quite a lot of sense of the games being playing within the “reset.” Meanwhile, the ruling elite have decided to discuss democratic ...
From Philip Pan’s coverage of the death of Hermitage lawyer Sergei Magnitsky: But Jamison Firestone, the head of Magnitsky’s firm and a board member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia, said the authorities had denied Magnits...
There is a new (?) French documentary out about Anna Politkovskaya directed by Eric Bergkraut which is getting some rave reviews. Here is the website, and below is one video (I couldn’t find the trailer).
TODAY: Medvedev in Stockholm for EU-Russia summit; Transparency International laments Russia’s rampant bribery; protesters call for Beketov investigation and release of Limonov; tax claim against British Council thrown out; ultranationalist-...
A while back we pointed to the Twitter feed of Russia’s Amb. to NATO Dmitry Rogozin. Today it looks like he has launched a personal assault on Radoslav Sikorski, the Polish MFA (everybody is just so prickly around this Berlin Wall anni...
We could’ve guessed from the letter he signed earlier this year that the Czech luminary/dissident Vaclav Havel was not done talking about the authoritarian drift in Russia. The Telegraph reports on his speech before a rally commemorati...
Throughout the day new reports have been published on the death of Sergey Magnitskiy, the imprisoned Russian lawyer who had worked for William Browder and Hermitage Capital Management. Some interesting quotes have come up so far, like this o...
Adrian Pabst, an academic from the University of Kent, has a well written if not entirely surprising opinion article in The National arguing that a real separation emerging between the Medvedev and Putin camps – “a growing split within...
Ivan Khutorskoy, an anti-fascist activist, has been murdered by gunfire in Moscow today in what some colleagues are calling a possible retaliation. According to the Reuters coverage, the murder may have been related to the arrests of individ...
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