Dangers Of Dissent
A Dissenter’s march in Russia wouldn’t be a Dissenter’s march if it didn’t end in large-scale detentions. Saturday night’s march was no different, with up to 50 protesters allegedly held. Thanks to la Russ...
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Gas Crisis Cooling Down?
Winter is upon us, and the last couple of days have seen rumors rumbling about the possibility of another gas interruption – due to payment problems at Ukraine’s end. It is alleged that Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko a...
RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Nov 4, 2009
TODAY: Activist lawyer faces stripping of status; Lyudmila Alekseyeva to receive German award; Tsibili to name street after Politkovskaya; Gorbachev and Havel reminisce; new poll shows generation gap; extremism on the up; Medvedev cracks dow...
If You Can’t Beat Them, Copy Them
Many commentators have been wondering in recent times exactly how the President plans to realise the reforms of the ‘Go Russia’ ilk. One can look at Macha Lipman on the issue of re-Stalinisation in the Washington Post today ...
Will Russia Deliver On Iran?
Today’s POLITICUS in the New York Times tries to fathom the extent to which NATO and the Western powers really trust Russia to cooperate in putting pressure on Iran, regarding its nuclear programme. Whilst certain recent moves by the W...
Russia Won’t Budge On Extradition
The delicate issue of human rights seemed to be, from the very outset, implicated in David Miliband’s ice-breaking trip to Moscow. The trip coincided with the third anniversary of the death of Kremlin critic and ex-KGB man Alexander Li...
RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – Nov 3, 2009
TODAY: Opposition activist torture claims; Miliband leaves with no breakthrough regarding diplomatic concerns; meets with rights activists; Putin and Medvedev popularity waning?; President in need of own power structure to realize reforms; Stalin ...
Miliband in Moscow and the need to link Russia-UK relations with human rights
Bob has an opinion article in today’s edition of the Guardian stressing the importance of linking human rights with foreign relations during David Miliband’s visit to Russia this week, and elsewhere in the same paper, Mikhail Khodorkov...
Stonewalling Progress
Mikhael Gorbachev has penned an article in the New York Times reflecting on how the period since the fall of the Berlin Wall (the 20th anniversary of which will be celebrated on Friday) has not necessarily heralded a less distrustful approach to R...
Grigory Pasko: Fabricated charges of espionage against the ecologist Andrey Zatoka
An appeal from Russian citizen and ecologist Andrey Zatoka, residing in Dashoguz, Turkmenistan, to you, to me, to our dear readers, to anyone listening. I, Andrey Zatoka, ask for your help with regard to law enforcement agencies that are repressin...
