Democracy would be calamitous for Russia: this is the message we are hearing today from chief Kremlin ideologue Vladislav Surkov, via Reuters. Certainly, we can concur, there’s nothing like democracy to wreck a highly tuned and iron wr...
TODAY: Modernization faces institutional problems; Stalin memorial opposed by rights activists; terrorist death compensation to be brought in line with Europe; Lavrov in India; polygamy, divorce, Nashi, mushrooms. The ‘fizzling‘ outcom...
Today Sean’s Russia Blog has an article on the murder of a United Russia deputy named Grigory Nosikov, commenting that the Western media has repeatedly ignored and/or downplayed violent deaths of members of government. Were Nosikov a j...
Whilst opposition leaders may still be in up in arms about October 11’s sweeping United Russia victory, Clifford J Levy in the New York Times wonders why it is that the furor about allegations of vote-rigging seem to have very little in the ...
The AP offers us the strangely poetic tale of the Aral Sea. Under the aegis of Soviet industrial planners, the Central Asian Sea, at one point the world’s fourth-largest body of fresh water, became little more than a glorified irrigati...
Today’s headlines speak of the bleak but sadly not unfamiliar news of another human rights activist being murdered in the North Caucasus. On Sunday, businessman and rights defender Maksharip Aushev was killed when 60 rounds of bullets ...
TODAY: Medvedev defends elections, says open to dialogue; Nashi files lawsuits with foreign papers; mafia boss praised by public; Ingush opposition leader killed; Serbia-Russia pact; reverse on Goldstone vote? Dmitry Medvedev defended Russia&...
As many of you know, today is the sixth anniversary of the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. On Oct. 25, 2003, a team of spetsnaz armed to the teeth raided an airplane on a snowy Novosibirsk runway, behaving as though they were taking down the...
From Robert Amsterdam’s latest in the Huffington Post: But it is clear to those of us who have watched and listened to Khodorkovsky over these years that his beliefs, spirit and convictions have only deepened. When he first became a politica...
More cryptic words out of Dmitry Medvedev regarding the recent parliamentary elections, which many, including Mikhail Gorbachev, claim were blatantly rigged. Some reporters came away from his Saturday comments to opposition leaders believing...
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