Beijing 2008, Sochi 2014, Rio 2016: BRIC nations are having an Olympic boom. It is an unfortunate fact, however, that the Olympic Games tend to spell trouble for civil liberties when taking place in authoritarian regimes. One only has ...
Outcry over the election results continues. Sergei Mitrokhin, chairman of the Yabloko party, has an impassioned piece in the Moscow Times regarding the alleged vote-rigging in the October 11 election. Numerous practices to impede oppos...
The following is a translation of an article about the second trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky published in the French weekly magazine, Le Nouvel Observateur. The Convict who Frightens the Kremlin From our special correspondent in Moscow Mikhail Khod...
I live to this day as well… Grigory Pasko, journalist Instead of an epigraph: «Endpiece of a modern fairytale: «And had the not been rehabilitated, they live to this day as well» — Jerzy Lec Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной ста...
Online political newsletter Counter Punch has posted an interesting piece on Russia’s decision to endorse the Goldstone Gaza report in the United Nations Human Rights Council last week. Although I can’t agree with the broad summa...
TODAY: Election furore continues; Iran nuclear question hinges on Russian stance? U.S. to back Russian WTO bid; Kudrin blasts Moscow Mayor over salaries; corruption cases. Notes from Gorbachev and Khodorkovsky. A Moscow court has canceled the elec...
Many of the Kremlin’s initiatives are considered old-fashioned by their critics. Though it receives regular harangues for out-of-date tendencies (such as press control, election riggings, military demonstrations), it certainly can̵...
The Economist offers an insight into Russia’s raising of beer taxes – an alcohol clampdown and money spinner combined – or a novel form of protectionism? At difficult moments politicians have been known to turn to drink. And with...
The European Parliament has awarded its most prestigious human rights award, the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, to Russian human rights organization Memorial, which is headed by a trio of particularly staunch Kremlin critics. Shaken ...
An interesting opinion piece today by Vladimir Ryzhkov in the Moscow Times sees one of the last bastions of media freedom – Ren TV – looking like it may have to fight for its independence. The increasingly popular station, the on...
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